 Poster: A snowHead
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My feet have changed shape due to extra mountain biking the last 2 years. The last 2 trips, they have become tight around the calfs/shin. I'm thinking about reheating my Salomon Xwave 8 liners using a heat gun and remoulding them around my feet again. Does anyone know if this works before I try it? Either way I'm giving it a go - nothing to lose. I don't want to spend anymore money if I can help it. Last resort is new liners/boots.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Inverted8, This is not advise this is just a guess a heat gun might be a bit intense hair dryer or oven might be better.
If you melt them you can always get custom liners.
There might be other things you can do that will help more. Do the boots have a spoiler in them take it out, you can always put it back you cant un melt your liners.
Please post results (pictures) whatever you do 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Inverted8,
I am sure somebody more qualified will be along shortly but as I understand it your liners will be made of"thermosetting" material and the process is a once only operation. I would be very inerested if I am wrong because it would sove a lot of problems but I don't think I am.
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RPF, I don't think the Xwave range have spoilers, I know several people with the same problem who ski in Xwave 10s.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Reheated boot liners are the most common cause of food posioning in the UK. I could be getting that mixed up with rice though. As said before, glue gun seems a littel extreme. Hair dryer or fan heater is more similar to what they use originally. Mine certianly weren't glue gun temp when i put them on to mold them. Then again you could just take the liners out entirely and fill you boots with glue. Dunk you foot in and you a have a perfect mould.
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Inverted8, re heating the liner will have little or no effect and a heat gun is probably the easiest way to trash them..... best thing to do for this problem is to heat the shells (or at least the top of them) in a large pan of boiling water...... this will soften the shell and then put the liners in and put the boots on (you will need gloves to clip them up)
this process will help the plastic mould round the calf and reduce the tightness.... first thing i would do is remove the spoiler if it is not already out.... you may need to drill the "captive "end off the screw which holds it in place
rjs, womens X waves don't have the spoiler fitted generally, but the mens ones do
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Just finished boiling and fitting them. They do seem to have 'softened' a bit when I had it all done up tight and stood in them for 20 mins. I won't know for certain untill I ski in them. It was quite easy - put them into a steel bucket of water onto a gas hob. I didn't properly boil then at 100 deg C (bubbling hot!), I heated the water to about 70-80 degrees C for about 30 mins, but I think hot enough. The metal buckles were too hot to touch! I had to wear thick rubber gloves. I used the hot water afterwards to mop the kitchen floor instead of just flushing it down the drain.
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