Friends we'd not skied with before turned up at Chambery, where I met them, with huge long skis - sort of thing you see expert elderly Frenchmen on. Lange HV RX would be a compatible replacement - available for 150 gbp in places. 20 deg c), I wouldn't rely on the boots, and if they weren't that comfy away, junk them. If they have been exposed to higher than normal ambient temps (i.e. So.answer to your question I am afraid is. And when the boot is cooled with snow and ambient temp to near zero or below, that's when brittleness ramps up. I assume your loft is dry, but it may not be cool. Our boots are stored in cool, dry contexts. The key thing in the Tangram data is 'moderate service temps' - this is not near-melting point temps, but simply elevated ambient temps. The key thing here is how hot did the loft get? If your loft is above the house insulation then it will have gotten VERY hot this Summer during the period of static high pressure systems.
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Even at moderate service temperatures long-term thermal degradation can represent a limitation to the service life. Quote: Thermal degradation of plastics at elevated temperatures is an inevitable event and for many polymers it can be a significant limitation to the application service life of a product.
#Salomon xwave 8 free#
They work in different ways of course, but heat causes plastic to degrade by evaporating plasticisers and creating free radicals:įrom the excellent tech sheet from Tangram: Three principal things kill plastics - solvents, heat and UV. So far so good.īut.while Salomon have no record of exploding boots like the amazing exploding orange top model boots from a famous Italian maker (wrong pigment in a year's batch and boots were splitting all over the world) the loft is a problem. Colin and Jon may be along to correct me, but that's my take to date. We've got X Waves and the related 1080s all over our house.
#Salomon xwave 8 series#
Switching to an X Wave replica increased Lange's sales exponentially and the RX series remains excellent. the hyper low volume blue series which ran for years. The Lange RX series - incredibly successful boot series is a continuation of both the last shape and plastics - this saved Lange from being cast as narrow and difficult to punch and adjust - e.g. Far better last shape than many of the Salomon which followed, and really good to punch out and shape. Designed by a guy who used to work in ProFeet West London. I suspect the Toe/ Heel pads are probably the most vulnerable.and spare parts will be next to impossible to. I had been skiing around like this, but hadn't noticed due to the storm and helping my Son who was struggling in the conditions. On one boot, the protective heel pad was missing, leaving the retaining bolts hanging down like long spikes. Thinking this was strange, I inspected the bottom of my boots. When skiing in Tignes, during very bad/cold weather (so most lifts closed and I was skiing slowly), I noticed, after I stopped, that the plate on the binding, which pushed down the ski brake, had a piece broken off.
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My boots were stored in a cupboard, away from daylight. Completely fell apart, luckily for her is was on the walk to the gondola, but it could have been much worse. Was skiing with friends, many years ago, and one the better skiers had managed to procure some even older Salomon (SX81? 71?) for his wife, a new skier. Had them on this morning, and the plastic seems to be unaffected, and the integrity looks just fine.
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They've been kept (inadvertently) in the loft, in a boot bag. Anyway, snowHeads really is MUCH better when you're logged in - not least because you get to post your own messages complaining about things that annoy you like perhaps this banner which, incidentally, disappears when you log in :-) We don't share your email address with anyone and we never send out any of those cheesy 'message from our partners' emails either. It's rather good and not made up by tourist offices (or people that love the tourist office and want to marry it either). When you register, you get our free weekly(-ish) snow report by email. 50,000+ snowHeads already know all this, making snowHeads the biggest, most active community of snow-heads in the UK, so you'll be in good company). as well as access to 'members only' forums, discounts and deals that U don't even know exist as a 'guest' user. Log in to snowHeads to make it MUCH better! Registration's totally free, of course, and makes snowHeads easier to use and to understand, gives better searching, filtering etc.