Post #28614 by SugarCaddyDaddy on Sun, Mar 30, 2003 1:28 AM

There are a couple of ways to go:

1. Leave the board in the bright sun, check the texture of the wax after about 10 minutes, then you can take a wax comb (sold at surf shops) or simply take an old/unusable credit card and slowly scrape off the wax.

2. If it's not hot enough outside, then you can use a hairdryer on the hot setting and work one end of the board to the other and, again, use either a wax comb or credit card to scrape all the excess wax.

3. You can buy some of the wax removal systems available at different surf shops, which usually consists of their "own brand" of wax neutralizer and a wax comb, but this sometimes gets too messy and/or too expensive.

Whichever way you go, be sure to put disposable drop cloths down under your board since the wax, when softened or liquified, can really leave a stain on your concrete floors if doing it in your garage or driveway. It's also a much less of a cleanup if you get the wax to a soft-state rather than a liquified state (believe me!). Also, you can go over it with orange cleaner available at any grocery or hardware store to get the very last bit of wax, since you said you were going to paint it. This is normally not needed when you are going to re-wax the board. And most of all...take your time.

Bong, Lucky, any other ideas to add?

Hope this helps.

Surfin'CaddyDaddy