On an earlier waxing thread someone mentioned how, if you DO have a clothes iron but don't want to ruin it foreverafter for clothes, you can use a sheet of aluminum foil between it and the wax job. They reported it worked well.
I can vouch for the general concept working quite well. I recently just used my cast iron skillet and the aluminum foil trick to accomplish the same thing, both with ironing polar wax on the ski base and also ironing Glopstopper into climbing skins. You could heat the skillet up on your kitchen range but in my case I just set it on my woodstove. (Sure, you need to use common sense and mind the temperature, but that's how irons were heated up for centuries!)
I folded the aluminum foil in half for a double thick layer for a little durability. I expected to have to use two hands: one to move the cast iron and one to move the foil along with it, but I found that the foil wants to move/stay with the pan and so did not need extra guidance. Easy to keep the pan in continuous motion.
All in all it was way easier than I expected and seemed to work very well. (Perhaps a bit feral and anachronistic but I'm sure there's absolutely NO ONE on this forum that identifies with THOSE adjectives....)
Cheers!
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