I'm late to this thread, but I use newspaper or paper sack with the Iron like Snow Ghost. I never remove all the glue, just clean up, then re-glue with light coat of glue. My rock skis are probably 10+ years old (K2 World Piste) and they are the 3rd pair of skis I've used with this pair on Montana skins (purple with Euro Fix tip & tail). Conservatively 700? days on these skins and still going fine. (Cheap old ski bum...)