Fix / reactivate climbing skin glue with a waxing iron. / Как освежить клей на камусах

When your backcountry climbing skins get dirty and lose their stickiness there's usually no need to remove all of the glue and reglue the entire skin. You can reenergize a dirty, worn out pair of skins by doing this.

- heat the iron to a medium heat.
- place parchment (baking) paper
- put an iron on medium heat directly over the surface to reactivate and renew your old glue.

These Voile climbing skins were used for a couple of seasons. The old glue was lumpy, dirty and gooey. I was amazed at how well the iron took care of the problem. The process was far easier than a full re-glue and the results were good. I heated the glue base multiple times with the iron set on medium heat. Each pass improved the glue surface and ultimately renewed the skins to functional form. The iron brought back the shiny glue surface, The process can be combined with adding areas of new glue with a tube of gold label adhesive – the combination of iron and glue in a tube lets you return your skins to full coverage without having to fully remove old glue and start from scratch.

You can also try:
- placing the iron on the glue surface to redistribute glue
- removing the top layer of dirty glue with brown bag paper (it does remove a lot of glue, be careful!)

The melting will drive the contaminates into the glue, and bring fresh glue to the surface allowing the glue molecules to spring back to their original (tacky) shape.
If the problem was just lumpy glue, this method will restore the surface for better contact and adhesion.

Try this before undertaking a full re-glue/buying new skins.

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