Shop equipment. This holds a boot shell spread wide open so a technician can work inside it with both hands free — which is the actual constraint in boot work, not force.
Anyone who has tried to replace a buckle, rework a liner or get at the inside of a stiff race shell knows the problem: the boot closes around whatever you are doing. A spreader removes that fight entirely.
- Purpose-built machined components
- Holds the shell open while leaving both hands free
- For buckle replacement, shell modification and work on stiff racing boots
- Designed for indoor professional bootfitting
It earns its place on stiff boots. A soft recreational shell can be held open by hand; a 130-flex race shell in a cold shop cannot. That is exactly the category where fit work matters most.
This is a tool for a shop or a serious home fitter rather than an occasional user — if you adjust your own boots once a season, you do not need it.
We do boot work in the shop in Boise every day. If you have a fit problem rather than a tooling problem, bring the boots in and we will look at them.
See our boot fitting range and all tuning tools.
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Boot Spreader
If you are tired of rolling around on the floor of the locker room like a turtle to get that overly stiff/tight boot on this is the answer. Also saves on Band-Aids!!
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NEVER BUY SHOES AGAIN
YOU LL NEVER NEED SHOES AGAIN IF YOU WEAR RACE BOOTS AND DON T BUY THIS TOOL, YOU LL NEVER GET YOUR BOOTS OFF;WELL AN EXAGGERATION, TORE MY ACHILLES TRYING TO PULL MY BOOTS OFF,I GUESS IF YOUR AN 18 YEAR OLD RACER MAYBE THAT WONT HAPPEN BUT THE ACHILLES GET THINNER WITH AGE AND IS EASIER TO TEAR ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU PULL IT REALLY HARD TAKING BOOTS OFF,THIS AND MY HEATED BAG ARE MY TWO MOST USEFUL SKI ACCESSORIES
