Every other year or so, some friends of mine go on a ski trip. I remember trying to dig up tribology regarding ski wax three years ago, before I was active on this site. I had a hard time finding much at the time. I was curious about anything y'all may know regarding this niche area. I haven't found a lot of threads from BITOG regarding skiing wax, and I wish there was more technical info regarding it (I suppose with it being hard wax, it doesn't belong on an oil website, haha)
Last season I went to reading stuff that Hertel has on their website, and they make mention of using "Fischer Tropsch Paraflint," which to the best of my understanding is a microcrystalline wax with a hardener additive to raise the melting point of the wax. I had no idea that crystalline wax had a market, or that there were hardeners that we use to encourage crystal formation.
(this is kind of open-ended; what technical info have you run in to or accumulated regarding ski wax?)
Last season I went to reading stuff that Hertel has on their website, and they make mention of using "Fischer Tropsch Paraflint," which to the best of my understanding is a microcrystalline wax with a hardener additive to raise the melting point of the wax. I had no idea that crystalline wax had a market, or that there were hardeners that we use to encourage crystal formation.
(this is kind of open-ended; what technical info have you run in to or accumulated regarding ski wax?)
