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Problem: Too warm to fingerboard at home and Mrs wont let you turn the heating off.

Solution: Refrigerated fingerboards!

I'm looking for "angel" backers to invest wads of cash in my new company Chilli Boards. I aim to produce and market the worlds first refrigerated fingerboards.  These will offer their owners consistently sticky conditions for their workouts regardless of ambient temperatures.

So, who of you are in?

Alternative, if you feel reluctant/unable to invest but have a good science degree, answer me this... Would it be possible to pre-session chill your Beastmaker in the freezer for a good while and expect it to remain cold for 2 hours while you do your session at room temperature? I'm thinking that because the thermal conductivity of wood is relatively low, there might be a chance it'll be slow to warm up. What ya think?

Someone was talking about this on a Training Beta podcast, (it may have been an Anderson brother), I think his opinion was that yes, leaving it in the freezer for a few hours before hand is beneficial.

cool, if you get it cold enough your fingers will just freeze to the holds.

Confusing. Chilli is usually hot. Drop the i.

Damn! Did he patent the idea?

It's marketing bud. Everything needs an "i" these days, iPad, iPlayer, etc,etc. I've just put my "i" at the end to be a bit different in a sort of doubly ironic way...

iChill. Much better. Trade descriptions and all that.

just live in an old house and you won't have this to worry about!

Cheaper option. Remove the misses

I wouldn't have thought the relatively short contact time and patch would be enough to counter the heating effect of your house on your sweaty hands. Also, wouldn't it have a tendency to condense vapour from the warmer air around on it's surface?

I suspect a more effective solution would be to keep a bag of lentils in your freezer, and use it to keep your hands cool between hangs?

How about an ice-blanket, pre-frozen before your session, that you can drape over your board between hangs to keep it cool?