High Tech Boot Repair

[slowp]

This boot hasn't had much wear, but I managed to rip it up at the heel seam.
Shoe goo wouldn't hold. I took some stuff like sole saver, a large piece of innertube, glued down a piece of innertube with stuff, and then put duck tape over to hold the tube in place. Amazingly, the duct tape held today, and I was in the brush with the rigging crew for 6 hours, and scrambling about figuring out how to straighten corridors. Got a wide one out there now. But no leakage in the boot.

 

[Spotted Owl]

Nice fix. Purple fits you to a tee, but how does it cordinate with the hat?

Thats is just as good as the screws through the inside of the boot to make corks in a pinch.


Owl

 

[Sprig]

Nice fix slowp! That 'shoe goo' is junk, esp. leather to rubber, (but in a closed garage makes an interesting drinking partner.... how do I know that ? ), use a good contact cement, smear it on both surfaces evenly and thoroughly without lumpin' it up, make sure everything is nice an' dry an' clean first, give it an hour or more to firm up and then press the surfaces together with vigor (like 50lbs+psi), a mallet works One of my first jobs was building shoes in Vancouver when I was 17, I do not tell my friends I did this btw, I tell 'em to go buy new shoes :jester: (man I hated that job!)

opcorn:

Serge

 

[slowp]

Nice fix. Purple fits you to a tee, but how does it cordinate with the hat?

Thats is just as good as the screws through the inside of the boot to make corks in a pinch.


Owl

I think I'm going to town tomorrow and will look for a better color. It doesn't go at all with my orange hat!

 

[andrewspens]

Better switch, quick!

You better head to town for a better color of tape pretty soon. The other guys around here will think you were from a bit further south and dislpaced by the fires. We typically favor fluorescent safety gear in this neck of the woods, but some "other" areas have it available in pastels (or so I'm told)

 

[Gologit]

This boot hasn't had much wear, but I managed to rip it up at the heel seam.
Shoe goo wouldn't hold. I took some stuff like sole saver, a large piece of innertube, glued down a piece of innertube with stuff, and then put duck tape over to hold the tube in place. Amazingly, the duct tape held today, and I was in the brush with the rigging crew for 6 hours, and scrambling about figuring out how to straighten corridors. Got a wide one out there now. But no leakage in the boot.

Good fix.

 

[Stihlboy088]

Epoxy? I'm sure you could get a tint to mix in it to go with that pink shirt

 

[slowp]

Good ideas. I'll be in the snow today. Don't know how much but the snow is way down and I have to work close to the 4000 ft. elevation. It is good to have boots a color that shows up in the snow. You need to see where your feet are! I found some Barbie stickers for the Twinkle saw. I'm sure it will bea very pleasant day outdoors today.

 

[Spotted Owl]

Good ideas. I'll be in the snow today. Don't know how much but the snow is way down and I have to work close to the 4000 ft. elevation. It is good to have boots a color that shows up in the snow. You need to see where your feet are! I found some Barbie stickers for the Twinkle saw. I'm sure it will bea very pleasant day outdoors today.

Be sure to post up Twinkle with her new look? Daughter will be all giggles again. Just don't tell where you got them, or she'll have them on my saws.

Owl

 

[slowp]

For Spotted Owl's Daughter

I found the stickers at the Walmart. They are in the Greeting Card section and are on display at the end of the aisle. The princess ones have sparkles.
I'm thinking your dad would really like some for Christmas.

 

[2dogs]

Hhmm. I think I saw your picture from the San Francisco "Logging Conference" they hold every May. You had those boots, a leather midrift hickory shirt, a Prison Blues thong, and a pink Mac-T. Was that you? :greenchainsaw:

 

[DarylB]

Ever used that "Good stuff" for shoe repair? The spray-insulation that you use around copper tubing. Works great on shoes/soles!

 

[slowp]

Hhmm. I think I saw your picture from the San Francisco "Logging Conference" they hold every May. You had those boots, a leather midrift hickory shirt, a Prison Blues thong, and a pink Mac-T. Was that you? :greenchainsaw:

Nope. I have a pinkish violet hickory shirt, these boots and in this weather, tin pants which I can't dye. Actually, in our nasty weather, poly pro and fleece are my friends. That other stuff sounds uncomfortable and icky.
I did see a cutter with a middy hickory shirt once. He must've had a toilet paper replacement emergency. His belly was showing and it wasn't very pretty. What were you doing in San Francisco? I've only been to the airport there and running hard to make the transfer to another plane. Didn't see much but the floor and my feets hitting it.The duck tape is still holding so the patch is holding and my feet are happy.

 

[2dogs]

Like I said I just saw the picture. No the Monty Python guys weren't in it either. You see all types in SFO, some you don't want to remember. Now and then I see something/someone and say "man that has gotta hurt" or "he pierced his what?".

 

[2dogs]

OK I'm a dumbazz. Duplicate post. Sorry.

 

[slowp]

I blew out the other boot today. I came home and used more innertube and Freesole, but am using ORANGE Duct tape on it. That way I'll know which foot goes with which color. The purple duct tape is still stuck to the other boot.
Purple = right
Orange = left. :bang:
Will the orange duct tape be as strong as the purple? Stay tuned.

 

[2dogs]

I'm old enough to remember when duck tape was only made in silver or od green. Now I keep a roll of red and a roll of green in the tool box. You're lucky you need to wear rubber boots, it is so dry here it's scary. I think we have had about 1" of rain in the last month.

 

[slowp]

I'm old enough to remember when duck tape was only made in silver or od green. Now I keep a roll of red and a roll of green in the tool box. You're lucky you need to wear rubber boots, it is so dry here it's scary. I think we have had about 1" of rain in the last month.

I have good friends who live inland there. They gloat about picking their tomatoes in November, while I'm whining about the shape of produce in our little store. We're now in our pasty white complexions here.

 

[2dogs]

The lady who owns the house next door to me, my babysitter when I was a kid, now lives in Barrow Alaska. While today things are a lttle easier to get, back in the seventies little things like lettuce were flown in to the one store about once per month and cost several dollars a head. Ice cream was ten dollars a half gallon and a hamburger was five bucks. On the positive side the store did and still does sell harpoon guns. The fuel is delivered once a year by barge and IIRC there are about 20 miles of roads. My friend lives near the dump and she can see polar bears many days from her front porch. Whales are butchered on main street.

The point is I guess its all relative. You rain and our sunshine in the winter. Your summer sun our summer fog. Your logging industry and our new logging ban. Yeah, a ban on all logging on parcels less than 40 acres becomes law in January. Many property owners have lost their nest egg and of course their property tax doesn't decrease. The vote was 3 to 2. Three men have caused the loss of millions of dollars that would have benefitted our county.

Anyway...sorry for the ramble ma'am. Boots report?

 

[joesawer]

The lady who owns the house next door to me, my babysitter when I was a kid, now lives in Barrow Alaska. While today things are a lttle easier to get, back in the seventies little things like lettuce were flown in to the one store about once per month and cost several dollars a head. Ice cream was ten dollars a half gallon and a hamburger was five bucks. On the positive side the store did and still does sell harpoon guns. The fuel is delivered once a year by barge and IIRC there are about 20 miles of roads. My friend lives near the dump and she can see polar bears many days from her front porch. Whales are butchered on main street.

The point is I guess its all relative. You rain and our sunshine in the winter. Your summer sun our summer fog. Your logging industry and our new logging ban. Yeah, a ban on all logging on parcels less than 40 acres becomes law in January. Many property owners have lost their nest egg and of course their property tax doesn't decrease. The vote was 3 to 2. Three men have caused the loss of millions of dollars that would have benefitted our county.

Anyway...sorry for the ramble ma'am. Boots report?

It is amazing what people can not do with their own property. I can't help wondering what our founding fathers would think of the way things are now.