It really depends on the plate and the manufacturer. I have boots that have had several different plates mounted to and the hole configuration is usually different. I fill the old holes with JB weld or a similar compound, and drill new holes. The leather sole never gets floppy, for lack of a better term. Hope that helps.
My local skating rink did a horrible job of mounting my 400$ prolines to a 330$ set of 395's, would I run into any problems by drilling holes to close to the original holes that were drilled into the boot?
So sorry to hear this. If you remove the plate, and need to drill new holes that are really close to the previous ones, I have used compounds like JB weld to fill them. Let it cure, then remeasure and redrill. Hope that helps.
kd schroeder Thank you very much for getting back to me. Also, I take it that my brand new prolines shouldn't look 10 years old after a mounting job, right? They honestly look as though they used rusty lawnmower tools to put them together.
How do you find the center line? How do you know how far forward or back to go for placement?
Could you do a video on how to mount a laser plate?
Once mounted and say I decide to buy another plate, are the same drill holes used or are a new set of holes drilled into boot?
It really depends on the plate and the manufacturer. I have boots that have had several different plates mounted to and the hole configuration is usually different. I fill the old holes with JB weld or a similar compound, and drill new holes. The leather sole never gets floppy, for lack of a better term. Hope that helps.
My local skating rink did a horrible job of mounting my 400$ prolines to a 330$ set of 395's, would I run into any problems by drilling holes to close to the original holes that were drilled into the boot?
So sorry to hear this. If you remove the plate, and need to drill new holes that are really close to the previous ones, I have used compounds like JB weld to fill them. Let it cure, then remeasure and redrill. Hope that helps.
kd schroeder
Thank you very much for getting back to me.
Also, I take it that my brand new prolines shouldn't look 10 years old after a mounting job, right? They honestly look as though they used rusty lawnmower tools to put them together.
No they should not. Did you see the plates come out of the box? Maybe the rink gave you a used plate?
kd schroeder I purchased them myself and took them to the rink to have them put together. They were 100% new when they came out out the box.