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Originally Posted by rphud
I like Parkers washer addition. Makes a bunch of sense engineering wise.
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I added the washers to the grip studs for my felt bottom boots.
I spent a week on the block and three days in newport. Not one
spike leaned over or came loose.
I weigh 210.
Prior to the grip studs, I had been using the wearbars with the
same method on the same model of boots.....over the last two
years. The wearbars in comparison would lean after two
nights....not all but a couple per boot. Some would loosen and have
to be tightened after every outing....some would disappear.
I found that the wearbars from last season were very corroded and
most of those wearbars that disappeared... didn't pull out, but the
threaded shank actually broke, because of corrosion or fatigue.
All I have to say is thank you for guys like GattaFish and DZ who
have spent the time experimenting with these over the years and
then sharing the results. These grip studs rock so far and it has
saved me so much grief.
I do one variation for both the grip studs and the wearbars .
Because I am using felt bottoms...which seems to relax/soften when
wet... I have been using glue to firm up the felt. I use gorilla glue.
First I wet down the whole sole with water. On the wearbars I
would drive the spike in...back it out...fill the hole with glue....then
drive it back iin. With the grip studs, I just place a glob of glue
then drive both the stud and washer in over it. I am hoping that
the auger is pulling glue down with it. The glue expands more with
moisture and seems to really firm up and get absorbed into the felt
fibers. It seems to make a better anchor, but I have not been
adventurous enough to try it without....since my first attempts with
epoxy. It definitely seems to have had better results than the
epoxy I tried a couple years ago.
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