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Did some shell punching and liner heat molding yesterday and this time it worked! We heated the shell longer and stretch it out more that last time, it turns out that it is harder to punching comparing to ski race boots. Feels great and can't wait to put it on slopes. FYI, according to MS, their liner requires 176 degree Fahrenheit (that is 80 degree Celsius) for maxium of 5 mins. I did it and it feels better.

Nice Korean-style carving!

Will forward this info to my ski boot fitter, thanks! To ensure a better fitting result, I luckily found a well experienced MS boot fitter today, will see him later this evening. I will update how it work out!

@Jack MThank you for your advice, I really love this forum, and will definally do the oven method! Did some shell work with my ski boot fitter who has no experience with snowboard hardboot yesterday. We tried to punch out the side and it felt okay at ski shop, but after I got back home, it seems that the shell shrinked back to the original width... According to my fitter, the shell is significantly thicker and harder to heat up (soften up) than racing ski boots. Does anyone know what temperature does the 951 needs for punching? There is just so little info and so little experienced fitters around me.

Hey guys, read all 12 pages of this topic, learned quiet a lot. This is definately the best forum of this super niche hobby. Bought a WC 120 with B shell 265 liner recently, feeling the liner has too much volume. I am wondering if heat molding the liner could help. I have rather wide feet (267mm length and 110mm width), but I skied a lot so I am more or less 'mentally tough' with boot width. So no shell work needed for now I think(and pray for). Has anyone diy heat molding the stock liner? Do you pull it out and put it in your oven? Or do the hot rice socks method like those done with intuition liner?