 Poster: A snowHead
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When I last purchased boots, I was told that boot warmers were a bad idea as they cause the formable inner to deteriorate (or at least to adopt an odd shape overnight). Is there anything in this idea? I have since kept the boots in my room, whereby they seem to be perfectly fine in the morning, but I don't know if this is just one of those claims that is amost impossible to prove / disprove. BTW, I've also used those electric in-boot warmers that look rather disturbingly like anal probes - allegedly!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ichabod, the small plug in personal boot warmers/driers are fine in most cases, would however avoid the big resort industrial driers found in many hotel boot rooms, you have no idea how hot they get, some may be fine but others to hot and will damage the liner and footbeds in your boots
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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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We too were warned about the boot warmers: we therefore just put our boots on the floor near the warmers and that is enough to get them dry.
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The personal heaters and blowers do not get any where near hot enough to cause remolding of your boots
I've used mine for years, its sooo nice to have warm dry boots and gloves every morning. The resort dryers are normally not working or too cold to even dry the boot out
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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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Ok, the anal probes it is, then. Roll on Jan 19 - woo hoo!
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It probably depends... I just had new heat moldable liners fitted and the shop owner was commenting on differences between the different brands of liners. They have an "oven" for heating the liners but said that some liners they just put in for a very short time and some liners can't be put in at all but are warmed for molding just by blowing warm air in them.
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Good
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Well, CEM sells the "Anal probes" so they cant be that bad. I have 2 sets, one for boots and one for gloves. They work brilliantly
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I over-cooked a pair of custom footbeds by leaving the boots on an industrial boot dryer. Didn't happen overnight, but over many weeks. The thermoformable layer sort of bubbled up, leaving wrinkles on the foam top layer of the footbed. I'm a bit more cautious about using high heat commercial boot racks now, and have a small dryer which is good for boots and gloves.
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