- 1). Make a soapy mixture of water and liquid dish soap. Apply the soapy water to your snowboard with a soft cloth and scrub the snowboard completely clean.
- 2). Rinse the soap suds off of the snowboard and dry it thoroughly with a towel.
- 3). Lay the snowboard down on a flat, stable surface with the chipped side facing up.
- 4). Use a lighter or matches to light the end of a P-Tex candle. Once the end is lit, hold the flaming end of the candle about 6 inches above the chip in the snowboard's finish.
- 5). Wait as wax drips down from the candle and into the chip in the finish. If you drip some outside of the chipped area, don't worry. You'll get to clean it up in later steps. Make sure that you fill the chip completely with the liquid wax.
- 6). Move the candle as necessary to fill any other chips or gouges in the board.
- 7). Turn the P-Tex candle upright, cup your hand behind the flame and blow it out. Hold the P-Tex candle in this position for a few minutes until the hot, melting wax hardens enough for you to be able to set it down. This should only take a minute or two.
- 8). Wait for the wax on the board to completely harden and become cool to the touch.
- 9). Scrape off the excess wax with a scraper made of hard plastic. You can be fairly creative with what you use; auto windshield ice scrapers work well, but so do credit cards. Larger snowboarding shops even sell scrapers designed with this purpose in mind, although there is nothing particularly special about them.
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Clean up any scattered bits of wax that have been scraped away. Your snowboard should now glide smoothly.
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