Stock board is very slick and very bendy - thinking of either a leather top that the Zipfit can bite into or a marine nonskid tape (acrylic adhesive).
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I want a grippy footboard
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Stock footboards are slick, bumpy intentionally with the raised ridges of the pressed in graphics. What you can't see is the waves in that slick surface.
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I really didn't want to use a belt sander so flattening by hand took a while.
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skateboard grip tape?
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The marine version of it, yes. But I had to get the boards flat enough for the adhesive.
If that doesn't work out I have some nice upholstery leather I mean to try.
Velco?
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Redundant with the nice high friction sole Coomer put on the liners - I just need something for that to bite into.
Why not a bit of double sided tape? Nothing too tacky needed really. Marine deck taping is so abrasive I'd image it would trash the bottom of your liner pretty quickly. You should see what it does to the knees of foul weather gear.
Another vote here for the double sided tape.
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Kitty inspecting results
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I only took it to the forefoot because the footboard has that flex zone right where I stopped. The liner actually locks into the tape very nicely.
Its sort of odd that the liners are sliding around. Most have rubberized bottoms... except intuition.
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She does - and that is why the doublesided tape wouldn't work after the first 2 weeks.
The portion I taped above is the portion that has no pressure on it as she gets her foot in past the throat of the boot. It is only when her heel comes down that it will have friction enough to matter. At that point she's in.
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Update after 4 ski days with them: she loves them. No problems getting in or out.
Now that this problem has been resolved, I will say ... when I first read the thread title, I was thinking "footboard" as in the opposite of "headboard".
I'm now struggling with what emoticon should be added ...
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With all this confusion, probably best if I stay out of this thread!
I'm now struggling with what emoticon should be added ...
or or With all this confusion, probably best if I stay out of this thread!
LOL, but hey, he solved the problem.
I would've tried a rubberized paint ... I'm sure he will give us a chemistry lesson to why he didn't.