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z1ggy
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For the shoulder pads.... can I like... get a giant bucket and just soak them? My washer is one of those smaller HE things, not sure I can fit shoulder pads in there.
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My guess is nobody really watches the vids. I've gone two to places now (a private shop, and a large box store) and neither seemed to be truly familiar with the videos/process. At least my initial fitting used the shoehorn like instructed and only laced at about 60%, pulled outwards. However, I didn't get the shrink wrap or "Ace bandage" at all, even after complaining of a lack of heel lock. The private shop knows about the shrink wrap though, because I'm going back this weekend to do it. I'm shocked they wouldn't just do it for me right away. I'll be curious to see if they lace my boots up 100% of leave the top 4 eyelets undone like in the video.
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OK I think I figured it out. Put elbows on right after shoulder pads.. get jersey on over my head (but not arms in yet) and kind of get the jersey up over the caps, then slide arms up and through... Pull jersey down. PHEW. Now I don't want to start a new thread so I'll piggy back off this: When I should I think about replacing my gear? It's still all functional, albeit disgustingly stained from sweat. The velcro all still seems to be intact and things aren't really falling apart except for the very top of my shin guards are splitting open. Mako M5 shoulders, and Supreme One80 shins and elbows. Like I mentioned above, I play 2-3 times a week in my men's league plus organized practices/pick up. Not really eating clappers too much or getting hit really, but I don't want to cheap out. Obviously, don't want to overspend either. I don't think top of the line elbow pads are in order, for example.
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Looks like somebody cranked on those laces wayyyy too hard when the boot was soft, and/or pulled up instead of out/away.
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Step >> the stock steel I'm on literally my 3rd game since my last sharpening on the stock steel and I'm already noticing some dull spots on the blade. When I had Step in my old Mako's I literally could go 20+ skates on the same sharpening. One year I only got my skates sharpened twice. It's the GOAT steel. I'm buying my BlackSteel next week. Maybe pro's are fine on the stock stuff if they are cool with getting a new hollow put on every other day. I have whatever insole came in the new FT2 and used the orthomove or whatever in the FT1. I have a pretty low arch and feel the new superfeet gave me foot cramps because I Think they made the newest version either more stiff or more pronounced in the arch area. For me personally, I am fine with the stock footbeds but if I were going to try something else I'd maybe look at speedplates. Not really an issue though now as I'm trying to fine tune my True's and plan to switch to these hopefully next week.
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That's essentially what I did growing up.
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3 is very reasonable, as that's about what it took for my boots to get done. Was just a bummer for me that my shop probably slacked and didn't order my holders and steel in a timely manner.
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I see, nice to know somebody has shared my suffering haha. If putting the jersey all the way over my shoulder pads first doesnt work out I'm not sure if I should look for smaller elbows or smaller shoulder pads because putting the elbows on first then putting my arms through worked fine.
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If I had known before hand about the more slim fit, I'd have gone XXL over my norm XL, for sure. So far I'm 2/2 on needing a dude to assist me getting dressed now and at least 1x a week, I go play pick up on my own where I don't know anybody. That's a complete no go from me on asking a stranger to pull my jersey over my shoulders or otherwise.
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Man I think my FT2 have 11. Mako had 10. And not sure why they did not follow the wrap procedure. I'm still up in the air if I want to have the guy do it or just use my own oven at home and attempt to do it myself. Leaning toward just biting the bullet and going over one last time because I assume another person wrapping my foot will get more compression than myself doing it.
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Yeah I would double check to see if he made a type-o. Understand about the cost, I'm trying to get mine perfectly dialed in as well, it is a lot of $$ to spend.
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Take out a ruler and look...? 1/8'' vs just over 1/2''. Nobody can really answer for you how you will react to what you feel. I got 1/16'' shims put under my old Mako front towers and it was a very noticeable difference in feel for me at first. I would suspect a 9/16'' shim would feel very, very noticeable. Are you sure they said 9/16''? I'm not a skate builder or shop owner but that seems super thick for a skate shim.
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Ohhhhh that would go over lovely lol
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Yeahhh I mean I'm not an overly large fella. I have a slightly wider shoulder/chest measurement relative to my arm length and body height, but meh. As stated above these are "modern" fitting, so they are tighter. Wish I'd have known I prob would have gone XXL and just dealt with longer sleeves, even hemmed them back a bit. Got another game Weds... Will see how it goes if I put the whole dang jersey on over my shoulders first, then see if I can maneuver my arms in there with elbows on. Might need to change thread title to smallest shoulder pads if I can't haha XD
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Yeah I live in a weird tiny little suburb where it's literally just houses, no real Home Depot/HF, etc near me. Closest is prob 15-20 mins each way. I'm the type where I'll pay an extra $4 to have it delivered to my house and save myself the 30-40 mins of driving.
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https://www.amazon.com/Stretch-Handle-Pallet-Moving-Supplies/dp/B07HNYX5Y9/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=shrink+wrap&qid=1569250283&s=gateway&sr=8-7 $11 with Prime. How's that stuff look? I assume it's mostly all the same? HF wants to charge me $7 for shipping $8 worth of stuff (and it will probably take a week to get here)
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Ah I see. Okay I'll look on Amazon, which is where I buy like 80% of the stuff I ever need/use anyway. So yes, with the scan I was leaning quite forward so my knee was very much over my toes. I have very skinny heels/low ankle but then it gets thicker fairly fast so I'm hoping getting these nice and soft with a really tight shrink wrap on that bottom heel/low ankle area will help. I'm guessing a lot of that "volume" I feel while standing is because the angle is different. I will get them on the ice for a few hours anyway after wrapping just to give myself a chance to adjust and get the feel for them. Hated the FT2's are first but after like... 2-3 hours in the boot, it's gotten better (Have probably put 8-9 hours on it now). It still hurts my feet a little bit but at least my foot pretty much feels totally locked in.
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So I put my elbows on first, then the jersey which helped get them up over my elbows easily... but then they got stuck on my shoulder pad caps and a teammate had to pull it back down over those :'D I can't win. I have mako shoulder pads which aren't the smallest but I guess I'll try and get the jersey totally over the shoulder caps first...then try and get my arms in. Jeez.
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I don't think there's a coil on the top of the oven but I have to check. It also looks like VanHorne uses a skinnier roll of saran wrap... I have like a 12 inch wide roll that you'd get at the grocery store.... Anybody know where I can get something a little less wide? Afraid If I kind of smush it together while wrapping that I'll get weird uneven spots from where the wrap forms little knots/bunches up. Guy on the other team last night at my game had True's on.... went up to him and asked if he had any volume or room in his boot at first and he said nope, fits like a glove, etc. So I know something isn't right.... that's 3/3 people in one day telling me I should pretty much feel like the thing is a glove to my foot. I understand the pocket is a little deeper so I will still keep that in mind.
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This is an old school electric oven with coils inside. Youtube says I can heat it up to 180, turn off then put skates inside once coils have cooled down but meh. Will prob try on my old Mako's first just to make sure it doesn't melt anything.
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I went to the closest hockey monkey and got them baked again but I still feel some extra room/slop in the heel and into the foot area. They did the ace bandage thing around my foot but honestly I don't think it did crap. I need the saran wrap method... I have some on hand but I'm nervous to put $1000 skates in my home oven. Maybe I'll experiment first on my mako's to make sure I get the process right.
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So I just measured the "stick out" from the edge of the rear holder to the heel of each of my skates. Now... I still don't know if it's an issue because I just looked and it seems Easton uses 271 holders on their 8.5's and that is what my Mako's are. But, I did just measure the stick out and I'll post the pics below. The True's had only about 1/4'' stick out, with the FT2 and Mako being around 3/8''. What's funny is I remember going into the Jetspeed first skate and thinking wow it seems like I'm on roller blades... it felt super long under my feet, very flat, etc. I thought it was just due to runner radius (coming from Mako's) but now I'm thinking it was because I went up an entire holder size.
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You're totally right about 1 copper rivet in the front, I just looked at my other skates. Maybe if Pure is cool they'll put a copper up front for me. As far as my size here... yeah not 100% but I was told it was 271 holders, so I'll see what the guys at Pure say today if I end up going there. CCM says 280's should be used for 8.5's. Here is a pic I just took... they definitely do look a tad short compared to yours.
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Okay I will buy a brand new box of the saran wrap and tell them to go to town haha. The LHS near me wants to charge me $40 to use their oven lol hopefully the kiddies at Pure are cool and won't charge me... I usually buy some laces or a few other rando items just because I know time isn't free. I do maybe need some new elbow pads....
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Never mind my part above about finding out how to do the wrapping, etc. Found it in the True skate manual. Going to go to Pure Hockey tomorrow (skate shop I got these from is an hour away, thru Manhattan) to use their oven and see if they'll help me wrap my feet and use the bar clamps on them. They do still feel just a touch loose/sloppy in that heel/ankle zone.
