Lihp8270

Hi, I noticed on my 7 week old Tacks 9070 skates that the holder is misaligned cause a deflection in the steel. The deflection is around 1.7mm The shop has assured me this isn’t too unusual and is a straight forward fix, not needing any new holes drilling. I am due to take them in on Friday for them to do the work, however my relationship with the store isn’t the best but they are unavoidable as they are so large in the UK. I assume the fix is to remove rivets and refit the holder? I am always paranoid about keeping a good fit on my boot, does anything on the repair affect the heat moulding of my skate? It has been done twice so far to get the spot on fit, so I don’t want anything to change, or have to do the moulding a 3rd time. Assuming that it wouldn’t usually affect the moulding of the boot, is there anything they can mess up that will affect it which I can check? Are they being honest about no drilling?

This seems reasonable to be honest. It’s likely that these are initially cut from stainless steel shit, assuming a 3mm nominal thickness the tightest tolerances would be +/- 0.13mm. With the tolerance getting larger as the stock sheet size gets larger.

70c until the black stripes disappear, stick in boot, lace up quickly and stand up for 30s then sit down for 5 - 10 minutes or so

I had the 1.0 in my Supremes. Currently got 2.0 in my Tacks. I vastly prefer the original 1.0. version. I find the much stiffer insole gives me better support (not it’s primary purpose though). I never found it uncomfortable at all. I’d buy the 1.0 over the 2.0 personally.

The insoles will return to their original shape when heated. So you can just rebake the speed plate and fit into your new skates.

I’d also posed this to CCM themselves so if anybody is interested here was their response. Hello Mr. Lihp8270 Thank you for contacting Consumer Services at CCM hockey. You can swap out the stock insoles with our Orthomove insoles. It is not necessary to heat mold the skates with the Orthomove insoles. The Orthomove insoles comes with 3 different arch types. Low, Medium and High. You may attach risers underneath the insole for your arch type. We hope this answers your question and we invite you to reply to this e-mail to proceed further. Kind regards, <CCM Hockey Team

I had the 7092 girdle and liked it. Loved the fit and mobility, however when I started playing more defence I went to pants for more coverage, as you can’t get the girdle to overlap the knee so you have a few more small gaps. what I am noticing in pants now though as that they are far more breathable than the tighter, form fitting girdle from before. super tacks offers greater adjustability, but the 7092 wrap around that fully opens is very easy to air out for drying.

This is the scenario I wanted to avoid. I’ve never had to bake my skates to use the speed plates. I’ve always done the speed plates after. I mean the instruction with the speedplates is to be stood up with knees bent for the first minute after they go in. This is contradictory to most skate baking which is to not stand on them. Anyway, if I want to try different insoles, and it is going to require baking the skates each time I change, I will have baked the skates 3 or 4 times before finding the set up I like. In that case, I will make do with the speed plates for now.

Certainly taking them out to air is better, I was referring to the difficulty of getting them out. Anyway, I was referring to the need to bake the boot with the CCM insole, rather than baking the insole itself.

Just coming back on this, although I loved the first version, I am noticing that the speed plate fit isn’t quite so good in the tacks than It was in the supremes. In the supremes you couldn’t get them out by hand at all. Anyway, I’m curious to now try the CCM insoles, is it critical to bake with them in? I’d like to avoid rebaking to try them, would I get away with just dropping them in?

I eventually stuck with the speed plates. may as well stick with what I know worked in the past. the speed plate 2.0 certainly doesn’t feel as rigid as the first version though.

I previously had a pair of Bauer Supreme S29 that gave me terrible arch pain, until I fitted speed plates. I fitted these myself and didn’t rebake the boot itself and everything fitted fine. I have now gone into a pair of CCM Tacks 9070 skates to get a better heel fit which is perfect. However I still get the same arch pain as in the Bauer’s. I have noticed though that the 9070 is much stiffer than the S29. With this in mind I’m also looking at the CCM custom support insole. Which out of the CCM insole and the Bauer, will have the least affect on the rest of the boot fit? Which is more likely for me to not require re baking the boot?