At times like anything you will need to provide some maintenance to your equipment, sometimes it’s only a little tweak here and there and other times it will be a large repair that is needed or even a replacement. While there is a lot of things you can do yourself, there is something tasks which are too time consuming and you need to let the experts handle it.

Lets take broken edges on a snowboard, if you force it back in place you had better know its going to pop out at some point. Now Wintersteiger tuners can do in a tenth of the time it takes you to do by hand, things like de burring and sharpening edges and cleaning plus buffing edges

Ultimately its up to you, but you know your in good hands when you take it into a shop, you are purchasing expertise, so even if you try and do the job yourself you have to be aware that things might crack or pop out at a later date with temperature changes and flexing

So here is our guide

Do it yourself

• Waxing
  Minor P-Tex/Core Repairs
  Binding Adjustments
  Detuning your edges
  Temporary Duct tape fixes

Take it to a shop

• Base Grind
  Sharpening or de-burring your edges
  Slightly more than minor core shots
  Delaminations
  Borken Straps or ratchets
  Any Spare parts needs

Buy a New One

• Major shots to the core
  Blown out rails
  Snapped Boards
  Broken Highbacks