negate the need for scraping the bases after hot waxing your skis. Instead of the traditional iron/scraper method, it uses infrared heat lamps to melt wax into your bases. That’s great for ski shops ...

Steve Janisch irons wax onto a snowboard, a 1980s ski movie playing on a TV in his south Minneapolis alley garage. Slope signs, skis and other equipment line almost every inch of the walls.