So you knock a nice gouge into your ski that now requires a good size p-tex repair. You now have an untreated section of your ski base. Speed killer. What is the shelf life of this product? Is it a two part mixture? Is it a single solution? Am I out another 100 every time I repair a base with P-Tex? Can I possess and store the stuff to use for repair coverage?
I'm with Jacques. They present wax like it is a surface treatment only. I've rarely had my skis get grippy and slow. We sinter ski bases so that wax can permeate. If this solution saturates your base as they say than any waxing you attempt on the skis afterwards would only be a very short lived surface treatment. Would it not? Again, there are so many questions that aren't answered.
My suggestion would be for them to simply give away a few hundred applications of the stuff to people here, at Blister, at New Schoolers, at TGR, Ski Divas, etc and let the chips fall where they may. An outpouring of positive feedback from a number of successful ski sites would have this stuff flying off the shelf if it lives up to the hype. It would be a far better marketing play than a kickstarter campaign with a weak presentation. There's a number of good skis in my loaner rack that I would put this stuff on just to cut down on my maintenance work load. I'll stick to waxing my personal babies for the foreseeable future.
This will certainly be followed closely by many, myself included.
I'm with Jacques. They present wax like it is a surface treatment only. I've rarely had my skis get grippy and slow. We sinter ski bases so that wax can permeate. If this solution saturates your base as they say than any waxing you attempt on the skis afterwards would only be a very short lived surface treatment. Would it not? Again, there are so many questions that aren't answered.
My suggestion would be for them to simply give away a few hundred applications of the stuff to people here, at Blister, at New Schoolers, at TGR, Ski Divas, etc and let the chips fall where they may. An outpouring of positive feedback from a number of successful ski sites would have this stuff flying off the shelf if it lives up to the hype. It would be a far better marketing play than a kickstarter campaign with a weak presentation. There's a number of good skis in my loaner rack that I would put this stuff on just to cut down on my maintenance work load. I'll stick to waxing my personal babies for the foreseeable future.
This will certainly be followed closely by many, myself included.