Bought this on ebay. Intuition liner toe area has small vertical slices? Wah?

[Mr_Orange]

Bought some old full tilts on ebay. Supposedly unused. Everything looked good until i removed the liner and saw 2 vertical slices near the big toe area (see picture below). The slices are cut all the way through. I thought this was a defect at first. After calling up some ski shops, they said some people do this to allow the toe area to expand wider after molding. And you could even just put duct tape over it if you don't want it.

Still seems kinda suspect. Wanted to see if anyone has tried this or have seen others try this before? I'm mainly worried that the toe would just keep splitting further and further.

[mntlion]

its fine, will not tear (unless you are really aggresive with molding the liners)

I usually cut on the seam line, above the toe, for that (looks nicer) or heat that spot and stretch that point out.

[skimaxpower]

After re-molding, I suppose you could glue it up with aqua-seal to prevent it from spreading. But if mntlion says it won't spread, I believe him.

[Caucasian Asian]

Bought some old full tilts on ebay. Supposedly unused.

Yeah, I call bullshit on that. You can see where they were molded. And whoever did it fucked up the overlap on the right liner.

But like Mntlion said, they should be fine.

[Judo Chop!]

yup, as everyone else says it should be fine. just needs a re-mold (and yes the overlap was fucked up on the first mold)

you can use contact cement to glue together the intuition foam at the split, either before or after a remold.
Don't worry if the stitching or the face-fabric doesn't come out right - that stuff's mostly cosmetic. It's the foam-to-foam glue that's important.

you're good to go bud.

[Mr_Orange]

i think the overlap is actually fine. I think i did that accidentally when take out the liner.

I'll probably tape it together for the mold to hold it together and then glue the gap after the mold.

Good to know i can still use the liner.

Is this the kind of 'Aqual Seal' that I'm looking for? Is there a specific kind?:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

I heard stitching the gap would be helpful too.

[Mr_Orange]

Btw, someone in another thread mentioned wetsuit glue/adhesive works well too.

[steved]

My $.01 guess is that toe room was the intended jong-slice-job Mr. Orange....
Yeah, the wetsuit adhesive-thing sounds fine. Sewing pieces isn't bad..if you have to...but neoprene as a patch over neoprene filling the crack isn't bad.. Get some into/through the cracks and adhesive to another small patch and adhesive tot he liner too... I'd let it dry then simply ducttape over...God forbid the color clash.. (ie time logged on Epic and AZ)...lol