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Hi all,
Last week I got my right boot shell moulded at the ski store to increase volume on my instep (boot started causing forefoot pain after about 45 mins of skiing in the fridge). As part of the process, the boot fitter placed pieces of foam on the exterior of my boot liner in strategic places to facilitate the stretching.
When we were done I took the boots back with me and I tried them on a couple of days later and the boot seemed more tight if anything. The foam pieces are still attached to the liner, so perhaps I was supposed to remove these 
I feel like it might just be me not seeing the obvious that you should take the foam off for stretching the boot?
Thanks in advance!
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It sounds like they should come off, but I'd check with the boot fitter.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Hi @itsLiamFleming, welcome to Snowheads.
Why not just call the ski store, speak to the fitter and ask?
Maybe it's just lost in translation but I am struggling to understand how the foam aids the stretching. My understanding was the boot shell needs to be heated and pushed out, presumably with something hard, to expand/stretch it a little. Then left to cool.
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@Layne, yeah I probably should just call, I was mostly just wanting to make sure that I wasn't missing something completely obvious.
I guess rather than foam it's like these adhesive pads that he stuck to the exterior of the liner. I would assume the resistance from the additional layer would give the shell just that extra mm or so of room. Maybe foam was not the best way to describe them.
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@Layne, I think the foam pads are added so that the boot is stretched just beyond the compressed foot. The hard thing stretching it is your foot. The foot will be compressed slightly by the boot and the boot by the foot while stretching takes place so the pads compensate for that compression. When they are removed the boot now fits to the relaxed size of the foot.
But that's just my thoughts
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@itsLiamFleming, I had some shell stretching done on a previous boot at Solutions4Feet and as I recall they just marked on the outer the pinch points where it needed stretching. I don't recall the use of any pads. Logically the stretch/punching out is to give the bits of the foot that are pinched the opportunity to push out the inner boot into the extra mm of space in the shell. I see no use for pads, except perhaps as a way of highlighting where the pinch points were.
The only other reason for the pads would be because there is extra mm of space in certain places. Generally you can't make the shell smaller. So pads could be used to take out the space and make for a snug fit.
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When I had boots fitted at solutions for feet they stuck the pads to my ankle bones under my socks then put the heated liners on, then the boots and tightened the whole lot up and let them cool, hence releasing the pressure on the ankle bones. I suppose they do different things under different circumstances.
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@johnE, yeah, I had exactly the same thing. But that is different I think to what the OP the is describing. Maybe.
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Did they stretch the boot/shell...
by heating it then putting you in it and buckling up...
or by assessing where it was tight and then warming that specific area and working it from the inside to create more room?
I suspect the first and the pads were to create more pressure in those areas and push the shell out/compress the liner there. In which case I'd expect they should be removed after.
Caveat... Im not about fitter.
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| adithorp wrote: |
Did they stretch the boot/shell...
by heating it then putting you in it and buckling up...
or by assessing where it was tight and then warming that specific area and working it from the inside to create more room?
I suspect the first and the pads were to create more pressure in those areas and push the shell out/compress the liner there. In which case I'd expect they should be removed after.
Caveat... Im not about fitter. |
this is what i think - the fitter forgot to remove the pads
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| adithorp wrote: |
Caveat... Im not about fitter. |
Have you given into the cake stops on your bike rides then?
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| adithorp wrote: |
Did they stretch the boot/shell...
by heating it then putting you in it and buckling up...
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Yeah it was a case of heating the boot in the oven (both the shell and liner with the pads placed in offending areas and then clamping the hot boot to my foot and cooling.
It was mostly that the pads were adhered onto the liner and left that had thrown me a bit. It's my first pair of boots so I'm anxious to get them right...
I'll check with the shop this afternoon, but I suspect you and the other  are right, that the pads should be taken off.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| adithorp wrote: |
Caveat... Im not about fitter. |
Have you given into the cake stops on your bike rides then? |
I'm old school and have always stopped for cake.
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