Thermo Fitting skates

[OldGoalie915]

Got my new D3 skates in yesterday. THey are a gorgeous skate. Curious about something though.

They recommend Thermo Fitting them, ie skate baking. Problem is no-one in town that I know of has a skate bake oven. Is there a way to do it at home?


Thanks for the help in advance

OldGoalie915

[Chilis93]

The golden rule for Mission skate is 7 minutes in the oven by 70° celsius without the insole. Then put the insole back and put the on the skate and and lace them very thight. Ask a friend or someone to add some pressure on the eyelets when you lace them on. We had some eyelets pop out on Mission and Bauer skates after heating them on. They souldn't come out but it's better to be on the save side.
You can do it with wheels on but also with no wheels. I would recommend you to do it with out the wheels.
I got a D3 last week to tryout and I skated with them before thermo fitting and after. I had no blisters or pressure points but thermo fitting made the skate perfect. To bad that I had to return the skate.

[KingOfTheCrease]

Don't use a heat gun whatever you do! (Yes, I do know someone that attempted this!)
I can't really help you with an equivelant but I wouldn't recommend experimenting with anything (particularly a heat gun) because you might ruin the skate a lot.

[loudog888]

Well, also, in theory, you would have to be wearing the skate whilst applying the heat gun, and I can't imagine the pain caused by a blast of 900 degree air on a human foot, even through a layer of leather. Removal of the skate would probably also result in removal of several layers of skin.

[Damion]

After a skate comes out of any kind of oven it is important to put it on then kick your heel all the way to the back of the boot then when you tie them up do not pull upwards on the laces like normal pull straight out to the sides so there is no stress on the eylets they are in a realy weakend state after the oven and even if they don't rip out you could still do damage to them the skate does not have to be real tight, then just sit down DO NOT WALK AROUND as this may pull out the eylets as well just sit there and read a magazine for a while then don't wear them again for 24 hours or so Then you can tighten them and wear them as any other skate.



Oh Yeah those skate ovens work real good for making pizza pops or burritos as long as nobody has put there skates in their after the have worn them a few times he he.

[KingOfTheCrease]

Hahaha, that was good lou.
I do have a bit of an amusing story with the skate ovens. When we first got one in the shop at our rink my Dad wasn't sure how long he was meant to set the clock to so he figured 'well it goes up to 15 minutes so I might as well'. The unfortunate customer, my brother. My dad's not the type to read an instruction manual, it often makes for an interesting anecdote. Anyway after my brother has had these skates on his feet for about three minutes he says 'they sure are hot, are they meant to be this hot?' to which Dad replies 'yep, probably, now quiet, I'm watching the footy'.
After about 10 minutes of pain my brother can take it no longer. He assures Dad he can no longer have these skates on his feet and they must be removed. So he unlaces them and very slowly and gingerly slides the skates off revealing very roasted socks. His white socks had turned into a nice toasty brown. That same brown your toast looks when you set your toaster to about 2.5.
I might as well put all my eggs in one basket with Australians and their crazy skate bake oven experiences, but the same guy that tried the heat gun also heard about these new Mission skates that you can leave the wheels on while you bake them (I believe this can be done with the D3's, don't take my word but it will clearly say so on the box). So this bloke gets a new shipment of Mission's and thinks 'sweet, these must be the ones.' A customer purchases a set and the guy I know urges him to use the skate bake oven because he's eager to bake a set of skates with the wheels still on them. Well there's really no other way this story could turn funny without saying it turns out they simply weren't the skates that you can leave the wheels on while heating them. The wheels came out looking more like grilled cheese than wheels.
Speaking of which, Dad won't let me grill cheese in the skate oven. I really want to!
Maybe I could make a segment out of dickhead Australians and their lack of knowledge and abundance of stupidity.

[Aussie_Goalie]

LMAO!!! Dan can we try convince your dad into letting us make some toasted sandwiches in the skate oven next time im down??? LOL! could be quite funny.

*Aussie*

[Damion]

I thought every house in OZ had one of those sandwhich grill things here in Canada we have an abundance of skate ovens so that is what we use. I miss the sandwhich thing I don't miss Vegimite yech!!!

[Aussie_Goalie]

LOL!

Well yeah most house's here have one of those 'sandwich grill things' and they rawk!!

*Aussie*

[Damion]

What you gotta do is get some cheese tomato sauce and some bread and all the other toppings you like on pizza then go from their I buttered the bread before putting it in so that it would get crispy watch out though tomato sauce is boiling hot when they first come out.