Mounting Hockey Frames

[blaine1]

Hey guys.
I'm a newbie here. I live in Louisiana of all places and have absolutely no place to go to get a frame mounted on a boot. I have some brand new Bauer H5 boots and some Tuuk Rocker chassis. I would rather not send them off b/c of postage. If anyone can help me it would be appreciated. Any suggestions of places to send my "skates" to would also be appreciated if it turns out that that is the best solution. Thanks.

[DannyG]

played three years on a Mission lower-end boot that was tre comfortable...

went through four chassis...took the first broken set to the shoe/boot repair guy & had the rivets pulled...put all three subsequent chassis on myself with a drill, and nuts and bolts. never once had a bolt/nut come off or even come loose. The bolt heads had to be flat heads, so they could be screwed in flush with the boot sole.

Don't necessarilly recommend the process, but it worked great...

any boot/shoe repair guy can rivet the new chassis, if you don't have a rink nearby with a pro shop that can do rivets.

<font color=purple>DannyG</font color=purple>

[MDE3]

Do you have an ice hockey arena with a pro shop? Usually they are equipped to do this. A Play it Again Sports shop will often do it up here, but many of them are real hockey shops too. I have done many myself, but it's not really worth it if you can get someone to do it for you. Just the tools may cost more than the normal charge to swap chassis at a pro shop ($25.00 - 30.00) Failing those options - check out a shoe repair facility, they may not know the details of where the chassis has to go exactly, but you could show them that and they would probably be able to do it.

[MDE3]

Lol - great minds and fools.

[missionhockey21]

You're local ice rink should be able to do it for you. If not go to a shoe repair place I've had them sew tounges back onto the skate, rivet the chassis, when I was in a pinch.

[-venom-]

Bauer H5 eh? Werd..... that's old-skool

[headhunter]

If you live anywhere near Lafayette you may want to check with Black Ice Sports (Epuck.com)

[blaine1]

Yup....have some H7's too. I currently use CCM 755 Kevlars(getting old school). Funny though....they are not too comfy.

[blaine1]

Yeah...bout 4 hours away so I will probably have to ship them. Know any places around Gulfport, MS or Biloxi. Does Southern Sports Supply do it?

[monheim]

Where's good place to buy a nice hi-lo chassis? I have a pair of CCM Externos but the chassis is horrible. I'd like to replace it with a better one, that allows me to tighten the axles without stopping the wheel from rolling.

[missionhockey21]

http://www.hockeymonkey.com/labeda-sensorframe.html

I have been very satisifed with these on my VSi boot.

[seyone]

I have rivets come loose all the time. the nut and bolt trick works great in a pinch.



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[MDE3]

The problem you have may not be the chassis, usually it is a question of the wheels or the spacers which are incorrectly made. I also had some ccm's (have two new sets of their chassis) and we had to get all new wheel spacers because the shoulders on the spacers were too narrow - they didn't work in the new chassis either - same problems with the wheels tightening up when you tighten the axle bolts - the bearings were being "preloaded" because of too much gap between the inner races and the bearing spacer shoulder.

If they were equipped with the blue Milleniums, some of these Milleniums had a hub problem that created the same thing as noted above(the "step" in the inside of the hub is too wide - wider than the spacer, and causes the bearings to tighten up when you tighten the axle bolts.), and has just happened to me with a new set of Rink Rats. Rink Rat recognized the problem and agreed to replace the offending wheels. Try a different set of Orange or Purple Milleniums, or another type of wheel maybe - Rink Rats have fantastic grip, and not all of their wheels have had this problem.

[MDE3]

What is ideal if you can get them is a screw and grommet set like is used in Graf skates. These grommets which go on the inside of the boot, have a small tang on the side of the shaft which goes through the skate sole, and prevents the grommet from spinning when you tighten the screws from the outside.

Tapered flathead screws work well except for the holes at the very front of the boot where it is almost impossible to get a screwdriver on them. If you can find tapered flat head allen screws - they work well as you can get the allen key inside the boot easily. The only problem I have found with those, is that the tapered head tends to work loose in the sole and needs to be tightened regularily as it tries to keep pulling through the sole.

With the screw and grommet arrangement - all your screws go in from the outside - so it is not a problem and the grommet head is wide and flat - and usually stays in the same location once tightened the first time.. You can order these from Graf, but they want an arm and a leg for them. I haven't been able to find them in the hardware market - but haven't looked that hard either. There are some grommets available in hardware stores, but they are for wood and have to be modified a bit before they can be used.

[missionhockey21]

I've been playing since I was three, and have never had a problem with rivets coming out. weird.