I cannot believe that I skied for years and years and waxing the floats never occurred to me lol. Glad to hear it worked out. Before the brushless conversion I tried lifting off from grass and it was a total failure.
Agreed I have skied for many years and it never crossed my mind until I was watching Christmas Vacation over the holidays and the sled scene was made me think of it. I was getting frustrated and was 10 seconds from buying another motor for her but thought well this would be a cheap way to see if I need to upgrade. I still want to put an Eflite 480 in her ut I want to wait until some other projects are finished and for that matter the plane is happy and "never pick up a happy baby"
So Teach put them floats back on when it snowy or no landing strip and enjoy. You have plenty of power in your Cub to enjoy them
I think I would like to think of a way to make the floats a more of a quick disconect so yu would not have to grab your screwdriver when you wanted to switch. HMMM just food for thought