Looking for thermofit boot liners

[tvashtarkatena]

for an old pair of Asolo plastics. The shells are fine, the inner boots suck. Any recommended sources/brands? Thanks.

[PaulB]

 

Look around for Intuition Liners. You can find them ridiculously cheap online, although they are sometimes sold under different brand names. This thread on TTips lists lots of places that sell them.

 

[TBay]

what size do you need?

[tvashtarkatena]

10.5 - 11 (or 43.5-44 Euro)

[tvashtarkatena]

Just ordered a pair of Morrow liners for $30. Thanks for the tips. Hope they work out.

[syudla]

The morrows will be fine. Partner has them and we've been to Logan, AK range etc with them.

[PaulB]

Morrow = Intuition

 

I think Intuition OEMs most of the thermo liners out there. Scarpa is using them in some of their boots now, and they used to make liners for Raichle.

[selkirk]

Is there anything boot specific about the liners? I just picked up an old set of Scarpa T-2's to learn to Tele in and the liners are pretty packed out. Will the Morrow's work for these or should dig up something else?

TIA

 

[tvashtarkatena]

I'm hoping that the thermofitting process will mold them to my old shells, but we'll see. I'll fill you in when I do the experiment.

 

As for your Scarpas, which are a bit wider in the toe area, I'd think you'd have a pretty good chance of being fine.

[PaulB]

I just picked up an old set of Scarpa T-2's to learn to Tele in and the liners are pretty packed out. Will the Morrow's work for these or should dig up something else?

Lots of folks on TTips have been buying the Morrows for exactly that. For only $30 it's worth a shot as long as you get an appropriately sized liner.

 

I tried using an Intuition liner which was too big in my old T2s, thinking that the forming process would make everything fit, but they ended up causing painful toe pinch 'cause there just wasn't enough room. I keep meaning to buy a smaller pair of liners and trying again.

[selkirk]

So the follow on, is any size suggestions? The T2's are a shell size 8/9 (English) , but a perfect liner size for me is a 27.5 which seems right between a 9 and 10 American size. Any idea of the size 10 morrow will fit into shell size 8/9 T2's, and then fill in a bit with thermofitting, or should I go down a size?

Thanks in Advance!

 

[PaulB]

I only have a single data point... I believe that I tried to stuff size 11US liners into size 9.5UK T2s. Size 10 liners probably would have been better.

[crmlla2007]

When I had my intuitions fitted, the tech had me in a smaller size liner than I normally wear. My fitter said the following:

 

A liner will grow, but will not shrink. Do not get a liner that is too big for your foot.

 

You want as much foam as you need to start with, the foam will not increase in volume when you heat it, but will shrink in volume when you cool it on your foot.

 

Based on that, if you have a shell that is pretty form-fitted to your foot to start with, you don't want a lot of foam, so you get a smaller liner, and as you put it on it will stretch out and fill the small space.

 

If the boot has enough space, get the liner that fits just right, which should be too large for the boot, and it will shrink to fit the interior of the boot.

 

Your boot is too large if a liner that fits your foot fine fits the boot fine, or has slop room. Get a new boot with the right fit from the right manufacturer as much as that hurts.

 

Hope that makes sense and that my fitter was telling the truth