Quick-lace for mtn boot?

Anybody ever put a version of salomons quick lace on their mtn boots? I understand it could ruin the eyes of the boot. I also understand it may not work well with the ‘tension eyes’ some boots have like nepals, My biggest fear is that they wont hold well enough. Im looking for first hand experience or other  considerations. It'd be for phantom techs. 

Even normal thin laces don't work with lace lockers such as those on the Nepals, so I would assume quick laces REALLY don't work. If your boot has full metal eyes I wouldn't worry too much about durability but if you have nylon eyes it's gonna be tricky. 

They are all full metal eyes. I also was considering doing 2 quicklaces, one for the lower and one for the upper. The zippered gaiter would keep them out of the way, too.

On my original Trango extremes (the leather yellow ones) I put a backpack toggle in the instep and the top to have a quick lace system with forefoot and ankle separation. Worked okay, not amazing. 

Alright y’all, I have some brand new phantom techs. I swapped one of their laces for 2 sets of quicklaces (ankle and forefoot tensioners)

Initial impressions- much faster in and out of the boot, esp with gloves on. Very easy to adjust tensions and overall feels like its hugging my foot substatially better than the lace side.

Going to go for a scramble/sidehill/frontpoint adventure later today to see how the tensioners hold up under pressure, compared to the laced side…will report back.

Those seem low profile, but just be aware of those plastic keepers rubbing against the inside of the gaiter. I had the previous generation of Phantom Techs and they had a similar mechanism for holding the front of the boot tight, though I'd guess it was much sturdier and more rigid if you aren't familiar with it. I noticed this was wearing away at the gaiter fabric near the boot zipper so I reinforced it with some glue to keep the rubbing on the fabric down. The damage was seemingly done though, as I was taking off the boot not too long after that and the zipper peeled off the gaiter in my hand. 

The boot with the quick lace not only snugged the forefoot better and keep my foot from sliding side to side on uneven terrain, it also sucked my foot back and down into the heel cup better. I had 0 heel lift when front pointing. I also found getting in and out of the boot to be a breeze. Another thing that was nice was the quicklace didn't slip at all. In fact I over cranked them some and had to back them off a little to let the blood back in, which was chill because I just had to pull the toggles a tiny bit.

As for the standard lace boot, no matter how hard I tried to crank the laces down I always lost a little tension and thus had tiny amounts of heel lift and forefoot wiggle. I also was barehanded, so anytime I adjusted I was reaching under the laces (that are tucked under the gaiter) from the forefoot back, tightening each in turn. If I had to tighten them in super cold temps I'd be pretty bummed to have to take my gloves off. Also when I went to get out of the boot I had to reach under and loosen the laces because although they weren't tight enough to prevent heel lift, they were tight enough to make it hard to get my foot out. Kind of the worst of both worlds for me.

Im gonna swap the laced boot as well, as far as I can tell the quicklaces are a substantial upgrade. Nol thats really good to know about the toggle creating a wear spot, and I might fashion some kind a toggle cover/garage to stash them in so they don't rub the gaiter.

I'll update with durability in the future.

Dr. Logic: bought the quick laces off of salomons website, the white size 9 laces are on sale ($7 a pair) and are plenty long if you are doing 2 sets per boot. I found the supplied ‘ lace threader’ was super useful in getting them started under the gaiter, I cut it in half and it worked even better for the second boot.

How are these holding up? I broke the lace lock in my prev. gen Phantom techs and may look at doing this if its still working well for you?

unfortunately (fortunately?) 

I've spent most of my winter in ski boots so I haven't gotten a chance to really run the new quick lace setup through the wringer yet

Dr Logic wrote:

I've been using them most weekends and mostly like it. They get your boot on and off far faster,  super easy to tension the top of the foot or the ankle independently if you put two on each boot (I did). Once in awhile it'll slip and loosen a touch. I carry an extra stock lace in case they break, but so far they've been fine. Instead of using the dumb little plastic connector for the end, I simply tied a knot and melted it a little. Takes up less space. 

The one big downside is the scarpa zipper sucks and this adds a slight bit of tension to it if you aren't careful where you put the plastic piece when you zip up the gaiter.

I'm probably using this setup permanently. 

Awesome - I will try this too. 

I wonder how it would work on the LS Nepal boot - without the phantom gaiter holding the plastic piece it may flop around if not tucked in