Thread: Worn cowlings
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Old 03-18-2008, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Damion View Post
If your pads have a toe cap or toe buckle that is attached with screws or bolts the excess length of said screws and bolts will prematurely wear any cowling at an accelerated rate.

It looks to me as though the wear you are experienceing is at least partly caused by this but I am not sure.
Nah, I don't think that's the issue.

I would venture to guess that he recovers from his butterfly by more or less rolling over the front of his skates and this causes the toes to wear on the concrete. He already said that he doesn't use any boot straps or toe ties, maybe if he were to use them, it might force his feet to stay in their proper position and he could get up with the inner sides of his feet instead of the fronts of them.
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