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Anybody have experience/recommend/suggest avoiding these?
What makes? Do they dry out a boot *properly* overnight?
Thanks.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I wouldn't try them to be honest. Use the heat element dryers - they do the job really well.
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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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They're not supposed to be good for moulded boot linings, though.
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James the Last, we use the Dampire Dryzone boot dryers, which are filled with a silica gel (I think). I don't think they're made any more, but seem to be available here.
Highly recommended, but relatively heavy to carry.
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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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i have a pair of "Dryzone" driers. They're long loth sausages filled with the silica crystals you get in some product packaging - you know the little teabag type things.
Unlike joshua I'd use them in preference to heater types, I just feel it's not a good idea to keep heating up heat mouldable liners (i know it's gentle heat, and that they won't ever get up to a temperature where they will 'reset' or 'remould', i jut don't think it's the best idea. Just a gut feeling - maybe a bootfitter could shed some light?). I have them because my snowboard boots have non removable liners (salomon f22s) so i wanted a cheap way of overnight drying. They work perfectly well, dry boots every time I've used them, though I've never tried them in really sodden walked through a river type conditions - just 'quite damp'. Be aware they're quite heavy - maybe a kilo or a kilo and a half for the pair?
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James the Last, Buy two pairs of liners and alternate them, always dry.
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Cynic, that's a good idea.
I was advised by a professional boot fitter to try and avoid use of the heated boot driers for the very reasons stated by rogg..
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James the Last, do you mean Dampire Dryzones? ...
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=11276
I was given mine as a xmas pressie 8 or 9 years ago. They never fail to totally dry out boots & they remove all traces of whiff. They're as good as new after the 100's of uses I've made of them routinely over the years & I have found them to be most excellent dude. Dry them out on a radiator, in a cool oven (it helps that we have an aga) or in an emergency, a microwave.
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| Dry them out on a radiator, in a cool oven (it helps that we have an aga) or in an emergency, a microwave. |
We just hang ours up in a well-ventilated area. They dry out very quickly (i.e. in the time we're out skiing).
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I dont think you can get the Dampire ones any more - FlyingStantoni's link is showing 'out of stock'.
Seaskin Do something very similar.
You could just put some of this into some of these and make your own.
And it was interesting to see that smelly used pop socks cost more than new ones? There's some strange people out there for sure!
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