Is it possible to bake skates at home???

[greggk]

if so how? Will it mess up the skate?


Gregg K.

[columbus_RHstar]

It doesn't sound like it would work to me, but what would you be baking it in? Conventional oven?, or do you have your own skate bake oven?

[DannyG]

I have been told two things, each by a fairly authoritative source...

1. conventional oven, 10 minutes at 275 degrees approximates a skate oven...

2. conventional oven cannot produce the effect of the skate oven in any way, shape, or form...

I say, go for it, as above, watch out for the metal parts, and hey, let us know how it worked...I can't believe that you could harm the skate, but I don't have anything to back that up...

[greggk]

I just got mine baked in a skate oven and just wondered if it would work in a conventional oven. I just got a pair of tour G40's and love them. Much better than missions.

[TourDragon91]

You can bake them at home...I don't think I would even try to though.

[missionhockey21]

Find an oven, I have heard very bad things from people by doing it at homw, stuff like it had relativly no effect on them. Anyways there is a reason why the skate bake ovens are different than conventional ovens. More in likely there should be one close to you, start calling local ice rinks, they usually have one.

[MDE3]

Little life experience: I had just purchased a pair of new 945 CCM's for my elder son and he decided to bake them - turned the oven up to 300 deg. and decided to lie down and wait. Ten hours later his size 12's would be hard pressed to fit a size 8. Brand new - when they were still $300.00+

Ovens are pretty common in most rink proshops now (ice anyway)- let the people who should know how - do it.

[missionhockey21]

All the ice rinks close to me have ovens, so there should defienty be one near you.

[lobsterdmb]

I recently baked a pair at home. They didn't work quite as well as my last pair that I had baked in a skate oven, but it still worked and cut down on my break in time... www..epuck.com has an article on it with directions and that is what I used to do it. All in all, it worked well enough for me to do it again.

Johnny