[arcticgeek]

So is the regular Swix CH7 hydrocarbon wax a C6 or a C8? Should I still be handling these with gloves?

[notatoad]

the "CH" line of waxes (CH4/6/7/8/10) are not fluorinated. The waxes that start with LF or HF (low-fluoro and high-fluoro, respectively) are the fluorinated products.

you probably don't need to worry about handling LF or HF with gloves, it's not that toxic. but if you're waxing with them you should be wearing a respirator.

[lsllc]

Yeah ... about that. The CH wax dust isn't good respiratory-wise either. As an avid Alpine skier I used to hot wax, scrape then use the drill mounted rotary brushes pretty much every weekend until I discovered wax "dust" in my coffee! (early morning tuning!). I'd usually tune late at night I guess I never noticed the wax in my beer can/bottle! That was the last time I used them.

Now I use the Pro-Glide from SkiMD, rather than hot-waxing, scraping and brushing, you crayon the wax on cold then use it as a friction device to "melt" the wax in with some very light brushing. Much much quicker, uses far less wax and produces very little dust, highly recommended:

https://skimd.com/pro-glide

I never really used Fluro-based waxes because it doesn't last long and the guidance was that you needed to "get it out of your base" after racing as it supposedly did long term damage to the ski.

[TimD1]

CH doesn't have fluoro, but the correlation between C6/C8 and LF/HF is unclear to me. Does LF use C6 and HF uses C8, or can both wax types be made with C6/C8, but in different concentrations?

[CDRdude]

I didn’t think CH waxes had fluorocarbons at all. Their LF (Low Fluoro) and HF (High Fluoro) lines certainly do.

[kyleblarson]

Toko has a much better range, stick to that.