wrangler

I don't think you need to ask a company in order to find out the diameter/radius of the wheels used to sharpen skates. Any sharpener should know facts such as you found for the Blackstone. I already gave you one example. No Icing obviously knows, and it's generally accepted that jimmy knows his business. Skatemate is obviously confused, since the referenced statement regarding geometry is incoherent.

You can google "skate roh" and read about it on a lot of web pages. Here's one from No Icing: http://noicingsports.com/skate_sharpening_radius.html Unsurprisingly, it shows "radius" as a radius.

I was wondering. Thanks for the update. Can't think of anything to say but good luck.

True; there's also technique, but he found what works for his.

Yes, I added 1/16" to 1/4" instead of 1/2" when I looked at it. My QC circuit apparently didn't notice that the numbers didn't pass the smell test. I will correct that. The part I bolded makes no sense to me. Radius is the distance from the center of a circle to the circumference. Diameter is a chord drawn through the center of the circle. It necessarily equals two radii. Segment is a completely different animal and has no application here. It appears that they're trying to say it's a "DOH" rather than a "ROH". I haven't seen that stated before, and can't speak to it, as I am not a sharpener.

ROH is "Radius Of Hollow". Diameter is always 2X the radius of a circle, by definition. Diameter of a AA battery looks to me like about 9/16", making its radius about 9/32".

There's no guarantee -- you'll have to try it. If the shop won't take them back after baking if they don't fit right, you're at the wrong shop. You can take the risk, but do you want to?

"u", "ur", etc. in posts and even post titles. Nominative case personal pronouns as objects of predicates or prepositions. Inability to conjugate past and present perfect tenses. Writing "should of" for "should've". The list goes on, even though this stuff is taught over and over, for so many years in school. Most often I hear that from the sportscasters on TV, who seem to consistently have these problems, and sometimes I just get fed up. Oh, yeah, TV folks also seem to think they can use "with" as a predicate.

No need to guess about it when you can read about actual experiences right here.

You're one of the noisier dead guys I've run across, and the only one who's taken me down.

Having skates that didn't work at Winterfest, due to making a rookie mistake -- getting my skates sharpened someplace different, with no time to try them first.

I actually did make one. "There is no try; there is only do."

Well, that's what this thread is for, ain't it?

That's exactly what I was thinking.

My Super Tacks have the white plastic outsole, and I bought them 2/28/75. My Bauer Black Panthers from about 1971 have that Bauer logo, but a leather outsole.

I was pointing out that it was literal "venting" of air from the tire.

That's "venting", all right.

My first skates were black and brown, like a lot of the cheaper skates at the time. So are my Super Tacks:

Since X* isn't FBV -- it's Bladmaster's BFD system -- you'd probably have a lot better luck starting (or finding) a thread on BFD for your answer. 95/75 is FBV, which requires a different machine from the one your shop describes.

Hang in there, buddy.

Why not abandon the league, rather than hockey?

Bose A20, used had the U174 plug, new replacement had the dual GA plugs. Half hour drive to the Bose store made it easy. Should be nice for trips and CFI stuff.

Bought a used headset on ebay for $500 less than a new one, and it turned out to have a small crack. Took it in, and got a brand new one for a warranty replacement. Even better, they let me have a replacement with the connectors I needed, so I didn't have to use an adapter any more. So I got a new headset of a type I'd always wanted, but never would have bought at a new price.

You got me beat. The only bonus I ever got was $50. I suppose I could talk to my boss about it, next time I'm in front of the mirrror.

Ouch!