Boot / Liner question...

[eastcoastpowderhound]

Good guess... my liners had no neoprene on them at all..




After 2 days on my newly neoprened left boot liner...

Success!! No pain at all...

It looks ugly, but it works..(and it's on the inside of the boot so who the hell cares). and no cold factor either as it was around 15-19 degrees on the mountain as well.
Didn't make the boot liner any larger, just cut out a piece of the toebox and stitched in a piece of thick neoprene that was sacrificed from an old knee brace or something...
The piece of neoprene allows my big toe to flex it rather than get jammed as the liner material had no give whatsoever..

Thanks for the suggestion as I would not have thought of it...

no problem...glad to hear it worked.

 

[tcharron]

Take it with a grain of salt, but my old Dalbelo boot I loved. And I swore the liner was too small as well. I tried everything short of getting a custom liner. Then I got my pair of Atomics M100s and I found 'my boot'. After showing someone what I was talking about, it WAS the liner. In my case, it was the damned Dalbelo liners have these HUGE stiches right across the toes. My toes where getting hammers by that line of stiches. Something like the liners in the middle of this picture:

Are you ending up with the whole 'black nail' syndrome?

 

[skidmarks]

dunno...but would have figured he wouldn't cut neoprene out only to stitch more in...

You know what happens when you assume. Glad it worked out for you.

 

[Phillycore]

Take it with a grain of salt, but my old Dalbelo boot I loved. And I swore the liner was too small as well. I tried everything short of getting a custom liner. Then I got my pair of Atomics M100s and I found 'my boot'. After showing someone what I was talking about, it WAS the liner. In my case, it was the damned Dalbelo liners have these HUGE stiches right across the toes. My toes where getting hammers by that line of stiches. Something like the liners in the middle of this picture:

Are you ending up with the whole 'black nail' syndrome?

My liners are simalar to the one in the middle of that pic.. as far as the toe box is concerned.. NO room whatsoever for them to pack out there which is why the neoprene worked out so well as my mom just cut the seam out then squared it off and attached a piece of neoprene the same size... the neoprene allows it to stretch which means no pain for me..

Never experenced the whole black nail thing though

 

[tcharron]

My liners are simalar to the one in the middle of that pic.. as far as the toe box is concerned.. NO room whatsoever for them to pack out there which is why the neoprene worked out so well as my mom just cut the seam out then squared it off and attached a piece of neoprene the same size... the neoprene allows it to stretch which means no pain for me..

Never experenced the whole black nail thing though

Yea, I was getting a nasty bruise under my big toenail becoause for some strange reason I often move my toes a whole lot while I ski. *shrug* They'd rub and rub against that damned seam and get a huge bruise under the nail.

 

[freebie]

getting that nail fixed shouldn't be bad at all, I had one done this summer and was fishing in waders the next morning, doctor was great, never felt any pain through the whole thing other than before he took it out, was back to normal in 10 days or so,