Just thought I would post this as I’m still pretty p****d off with myself but hopefully after everyone has told me what an idiot I am I will, in time, laugh about it!!

Bought some lovely Bont Vaypor heat moldable road shoes at the start of the week, very happy!
Decided the night before last to mold them as per instructions and numerous youtube videos.

I set the oven to ten degrees less than instructed and put them in for 5 minutes less than stated, better safe than sorry!

Imagine my horror when I opened the oven to a cloud of black smoke and the majority of the sole bits and protective toe piece melted and deformed!

I have just spent the last hour cleaning the remaining melted bits from the oven itself after a severe telling off from the mrs…

The only saving grace is that all bits that have been melted are available to buy from Bont, even the toe pieces……phew.

heat moldable road shoes

I didn’t even know these existed.

As a kid I used to shrink crisp packets in the oven and put them on keys rings. Maybe you could do the same with your shoes?

I’d be asking for the replacement bits for free personally. Unless you reckon your oven is really that far out.

Did you have it on the grill setting?

Choux pastry?

Choux pastry?

Reported

Nothing worse than overdone sole.
Ends up very rubbery.

was definitely on oven setting!!

Maybe I could make some Pat Butcher type earings for my mums birthday!!

I am quite interested in how far out the oven is, if at all…. Will borrow a thermocouple from work this week I think!

Didn’t mix up Celsius and Fahrenheit did you? Once made that mistake with some yoursole mouldable inserts.

Rusty is that Chinese “rubbery”?

Fan/non-fan oven temps?

Nothing worse than overdone sole.
Ends up very rubbery.

What temp did you set? IIRC the instructions say 70ºc, which my oven won’t do, so I did it at 100º with no problems

I think Onzadog has it. The Bont website gives temp in Farenheit.

Didn’t mix up Celsius and Fahrenheit did you?

Oh. That would be embarrassing.

Bont Vapour. That’s the model, not an instruction.

definitely didn’t get deg c and Fahrenheit mixed up…… I checked that before I posted!! as that would be extremely embarrassing.

It is a conventional oven and not being an expert on fan and conventional temps I wouldn’t know the difference.

nammynake….that made me laugh!

You do realise you are meant to take the plastic bits off the sole first!!

Well?!

His silence speaks volumes! 😀

Conventional oven or conveCtional oven? Everybody knows that using a Convectional oven you reduce the temp by 20 degrees dont they...dont they?

Don’t know about ovens, but calibrating irons during my apprenticeship, most of them were miles out.