Eric Sedletzky
Contributor
I'm stuck with an issue with Jet Fins.
I have a pair of XXL Jets and I've had to try and deal with the GIANT foot pocket that they have. I don't have a size 18 logging boot to wear to fill the foot pocket (that's what it would take) and they flop around something horrible, to the point where I can't use them anymore even though I think the blade design is outstanding.
I really like jets and I've tried everything to make an XL fit but the problem is the entrance to the pocket is too small even though the pocket itself would be fine to fit my size 12-13 average dive bootie. In other words the foot pocket on XL does not have enough flair to account for the rise in the top of my foot right before the tendon area on the top of the foot.
Supposedly Scubapro is dealing with this by introducing a new size that's in between the XL and the current XXL. The new size will be the new XXL, and the current XXL will become the new XXXL.
I've been waiting now to see this new fin for over a year which has been promised and nobody can tell me anything, so I'm giving up.
So anyway, I've decided to try and modify an XL Jet and make it work.
I'm wondering if anybody has had luck with trying to heat up and reform the foot pockets on Jet fins and had any luck. I'm thinking if they were heated up enough by first boiling them in water then heating them further with a very hot heat gun and then shoving a plaster filled dive bootie in them and then allow the fin to completely cool if this might reform the top outer bead to the entrance of the fin and retain the new shape?
As the XL's are now, I can kind of get my foot in with a size 12 slim bootie but the very thick and hard bead they put around the entrance really hurts the top of my foot.
Has anybody thought of this and tried it?
I have a pair of XXL Jets and I've had to try and deal with the GIANT foot pocket that they have. I don't have a size 18 logging boot to wear to fill the foot pocket (that's what it would take) and they flop around something horrible, to the point where I can't use them anymore even though I think the blade design is outstanding.
I really like jets and I've tried everything to make an XL fit but the problem is the entrance to the pocket is too small even though the pocket itself would be fine to fit my size 12-13 average dive bootie. In other words the foot pocket on XL does not have enough flair to account for the rise in the top of my foot right before the tendon area on the top of the foot.
Supposedly Scubapro is dealing with this by introducing a new size that's in between the XL and the current XXL. The new size will be the new XXL, and the current XXL will become the new XXXL.
I've been waiting now to see this new fin for over a year which has been promised and nobody can tell me anything, so I'm giving up.
So anyway, I've decided to try and modify an XL Jet and make it work.
I'm wondering if anybody has had luck with trying to heat up and reform the foot pockets on Jet fins and had any luck. I'm thinking if they were heated up enough by first boiling them in water then heating them further with a very hot heat gun and then shoving a plaster filled dive bootie in them and then allow the fin to completely cool if this might reform the top outer bead to the entrance of the fin and retain the new shape?
As the XL's are now, I can kind of get my foot in with a size 12 slim bootie but the very thick and hard bead they put around the entrance really hurts the top of my foot.
Has anybody thought of this and tried it?
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