Friends who have skied through the snow probably know that snowboards need to be waxed regularly. The waxed snowboard is like a car with a very light steering wheel and is easier to maneuver. In large international competitions, many ice and snow powers will provide special waxing vehicles for their competitors.
The snow wax car has been a blank in our country in the past. However, at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the players will be guaranteed by China's first self-developed snow wax car. According to our understanding, this is a project team of more than 1,000 people, after 11 months of tenacious research and development.
The 50-ton snow wax truck, which covers an area of about 143 square meters, has several large characters printed on the box and looks like an oversized truck. Last month, it just completed its first training support after delivery at the Hot Spring County Cross-Country Ski Resort in the northwestern border of Xinjiang.
In northwestern Xinjiang in mid-to-late November, the early morning temperature is still below zero. Six waxers from China, Russia and Finland have started their day's work. They scraped off the old wax on the cross-country skis on the snowboard holder and put on the new wax. The snow wax car is cold and windy outside, the inside is warm and windy, and after more than an hour, these waxed skis will be used by the cross-country skiing national training team.
Ren Suo, design director of the innovative design department of Shandong Industrial Design and Research Institute: Foreign snow wax masters put forward very high evaluations for our entire snow wax platform and snow wax car, saying that our snow wax table can be said to be the best in the world.
A 32-inch display is the intelligent control center of the snow wax car, which can monitor hundreds of data. Through accurate real-time temperature and humidity monitoring data, it provides an important reference for waxers to choose wax patterns.
Liu Xiping, deputy director of the special vehicle design department of the Application Engineering Development Center of China National Heavy Duty Truck Group: The choice of wax type can more reasonably reduce some resistance of the snowboard. Choosing the right wax type can reduce the resistance to a minimum, which is a great help to the athlete's performance.
Foreign waxers said that this snow wax truck is larger than the ones usually seen abroad, and the function is more complete, the lighting and suction system on the waxing table can facilitate the waxing artist to check the waxing effect under different angles of light, and the suction system can also suck away the dust generated during the waxing process and the harmful gases produced during the heating wax process.
It is understood that this snow wax car is jointly developed and produced by a number of enterprises in Shandong for nearly a year, integrating photovoltaic power generation, energy storage, 5G industrial interconnection, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies, a total of 66 patents have been declared, including 21 invention patents, which is a key equipment to support the training and competition of the national team of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and will serve the national team for a long time.