• If ALL you wanna do is remove the flash, then a lighter is ALL you need.
  
• IF you wanna add weight, strength and speed, then you boil with baby oil.

I don't think there's any two ways about it. I do know that the boiled bases I used in L.A. a few years ago don't hold up to the bases I've tweaked as of late, so now there is no need for me to ever boil again and I get to use ff.coms without cutting my fingers off trying to make weight!!!

Just my $.02.