Comments on: Hot Water Molding Intuition Liners

By: Michael Pike

Michael Pike — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:40:28 +0000

Intuition has details on their website for home molding liners using short grain white rice in a thin sock shaped like a sausage. You heat it in a microwave for various times depending on the type and size of liner.
You then put it into the liner for a set amount of time.
It worked fine for me and I’ll be using it to compress the rear cuff by just putting it in the cuff area.

By: Lou

Lou — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:03:03 +0000

Dear Frank, after that many years and so little use, you need to re-fit the boots. Yes, feet change, and especially the protrusion of your ankle bones can easily change in seven years. Do the refit before exerting energy on anything else.

As for what is most comfortable, I’d advise you to upgrade to a modern boot such as the Scarpa Maestrale.

Your ski technique could also have something to do with the boots hurting. But logic dictates that you get the re-fit and/or new boots first, then go on to the next problem if it still exists.

Lou

By: frank joyce

frank joyce — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:37:59 +0000

hello all,
firstly apologies for being somewhat off topic but as a very frustrated AT skier would appreciate your thoughts. As a regular nordic skier (live in the uk so ski mostly in Norway).Because my downhill skills not that good especially on the steeps tried to ease myself back into AT using my 5-7 year old Garmont G-Lite boots. Previously worn about 7 years ago for 3 weeks total but when I tried them recently God awful painful on both inner ankle bones. Bruised bones so badly agony every step which lasted subsequently with borrowed boots when originally the G-Lites were comfortable. Okay over the years I have taken instruction en piste to improve my downhill technique but these days cant afford any more tuition so just want to gradually improve during the trip. Can’t understand why previously comfortable boots are now so awful which really dented my confidence? The inners which are a close fit were baked in an oven with my foot impression all those years ago-can feet change that much, i’m 65? So do any of you have experience of this type of boot and what in your view are currently the most comfortable? Probably a bit of a wimp but boots do seem very heavy and cumbersome no doubt not helped by the pain and consequent lack of confidence. Anyway thanks for any comments, All the best, Frank.

By: Ben 2

Ben 2 — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:10:48 +0000

Following the TGR thread: the liner goes in the boot, turkey bag goes in the liner, boiling water goes in the bag … We’re gonna need a bigger bag.

I intend to try this sometime to remold the inside of a liner. I guess you could try to preheat the inside of the shell by filling the shell with a bag of boiling water, then removing it and inserting the liner and filling that with a second bag of water, but the shell probably doesn’t have enough heat capacity to stay really hot.

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:36:17 +0000

Hey folks, I’m finally online again for enough time to get some work done. Am in town (Chur) here in Switzland, but no Internet connection at relative’s house where we’re staying so we have to go to library or cafe to connect, slows things down, especially when you spend your first day skiing (he he he).

At any rate, the liners I was working on are a pair of Pro Tour. Spot molding with hot water should work for any Intuition thermo liner I would think. Lower altitude would probably be better, the temp we got (just under 200) seemed barely enough. Getting the liner wet is not a problem, they’re designed to be wet or damp for days on end. Just try it out after you’re done.

As far as I know, my method is really only useful for the cuff, doing it on the lower shoe of the liner without the liner in the boot would cause you to ruin the lasting of the liner. On the other hand, one has to wonder if one couldn’t heat up both the boot shell and the liner to the point where the liner would mold? We shall see, someday.