How To Fix Hopelessly Worn Out Shoes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2019
- I love shoes, who doesn't? They protect our feet! Isn't it a shame then that they wear out, often too quickly? New shoes are expensive, and breaking in a new pair is annoying when you have a perfectly comfortable (albeit broken) pair on right now! Don't worry, there's an easy to way to fix those shoes, and get some extra mileage out of them before you inevitably have to replace them! Follow along and discover how we fix these shoes!
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Shoe Goo is incredibly hard to source in Australia so I’ve been waiting neatly 12 months to source some and fix my Merrells. Your video is perfect and doesn’t rush anything so finally I’m ready to repair! (Aussies - you can get Shoe Goo at Athletes Foot but even they have troubles with supply)
Yes! Shoe Goo is good stuff! I’ve never used it for that large of repairs. Great info.
Thanks. Just ordered a tube to fix my daughter's shoes. Keep up the great work.
Nice! This looks like the life-extension I need for my current workshop shoes :D Cheers!
I have some scraps of moose leather from a moccasin maker. Combined with shoe goo you can do all sorts of repairs, even to sandal straps. The leather also makes a handy patch for that spot on the back of the ankle that always gets sharp at the inside rear.
Aye, though I tend to just epoxy glue in a big patch of leather in the back of the shoe once it starts wearing out. The epoxy adds a little stiffness as well. If you look closely you can even see that inside the shoe in this video.
Nicely done! 😃👍🏻👟👟👊🏻
Hi,
Try diluting some of the shoo goo with toluene for a thinner application. Also, using toluene and a small brush, you can smooth out the applied thick goo.
Alistair
Good tip, but unfortunately not easy to come by over here, and ice works just swell if you don’t want to play around with solvents.
Hi,
Funny, here in Canada I can buy toluene at the hardware store. It’s is the solvent in the shoe goo, for what ever that’s worth . I’ve also added dried pigment ( carbon black ) to the slightly thinned shoe goo.
I often find the shoe goo right out of the tube is to thick for the application needed. If you thin it down, you can paint on thin layers as get a nice effect. An example would be waterproofing on heat shrink tubing covered wire connections.
In any case, always enjoy your vids.
Alistair
Ironic..... in England shoo goo costs a fortune but I CAN get toluene (I LOVE toluene).... you've got really cheap shoe goo but find it hard to get toluene.
Welcome back to switch and lever? 😂
Smoothest transition to a sponsor my friend 😂👍🏻
Can you repair the broken cracked bands of barbies vintage heels with this type of goo?
Does it dry clear?
Mmm. Shoe butter.
The ice is a fantastic tip. I'm going to have to see what I might be able to fix with this stuff. Thanks!
I need for my current workshop shoes !!!
I seem to be having trouble sourcing Shoe-Goo being outside North America. I wonder whether E6000 or the like behave similarly. They probably don't. Would be perfect if there was a similar product i could just order from China.
I found shoe goo on Amazon in Europe. Does not seem like a great product, though
use a Popsicle mold with a handle for better handling of the ice
i use shoe goo for all kinds of stuff, from fixing a shoe to re-wrapping the handle of swords with leather, i been using it for years, probably since right around the time it came out on the market
Since the 70s? That stuff has been around for a long time, and the same company also makes some other really good adhesives. It is indeed pretty versatile 🙂
Shoe
Shoe goo seems similar to Sugru in the list of things it can be used for.
There is surely some overlap. I've found that Shoe Goo is better for areas with higher wear, like soles, whereas Sugru works great where it's either impractical to use a liquid (since it's more a clay consistency) and areas with less wear. They're both great products though.
When I have shoes with that type of sole I squirt clear silicone into the broken air cushions, it's works very well and is a lot cheaper than shoe goo.
Shoe Goo isn’t exactly expensive though, and I find regular clear silicone is a lot less wear resistant than the goo.
@@SwitchAndLever £15 a tube here compared to £1 for silicone. You are right, it probably sin't as hard wearing, but it fits my budget. The air cushion soles I repaired with it outlasted the rest of the shoe, so I was happy with that.
£15??? Holy crap! I’m glad I picked up a few tubes in the US to bring home then! It’s like $4 there 😄
Will it cure in thick layers? i.e. can I use it to make small pseudo-rubber castings?
It should, though may take some time longer than 24h. It sticks very well to itself so you could always just add a little to the mold at a time.
Nice video!.
I don't think there is a similar product were I live. Any idea on a DIY alternative? Thanks!
Shoe Goo is just one of those things that people fall in love with after they use it!
Oh tell me about it, I bought three tubes in the US to bring back home with me 😁
🙈🙉🙊Who else is here from the parody video? 👟😱 They got it on point 😂💯 crazy bad kappa
Which parody video?
@@SwitchAndLever one from discord
@@lesleythompson3391 No clue, would you mind dropping a link?
@@SwitchAndLever bit.ly/2Xkgjxi
Yeah, I meant the link for the video, not the discord. :)
I dream of a two-part (i.e. not solvent-based not air-drying) flexible shoe adhesive.... or something like a flexible cyano-acrylate.... I'll give Shoe Goo a try though.
Nic video
It works decently well for reattaching rubber to the soles i lost the sole to my boot once ripped the other off and took an old tire and made some new soles out of the treads and with the help of some tac nails and a bessey clamp it worked well to bolster the staying power of the shoegoo
Please do another update on how the repair holds up
PyroShim He did at the end of the video, after 1-2 weeks. Unfortunately, in my experience I’ve never seen heel repairs like this hold up for more than 1 month of daily use, before peeling away from the sole.
@@michaelwagner3952 no, that's a month later, it even says so right there in the video. It's still holding up by the way, coming up on about two months since I did the repair.
@@SwitchAndLever and still when you wear it down you can clean it and ad another layer of goo (its recommended to make the surface a bit rough with sandpaper)
Bobby Duke walk at the end?
Was wondering if someone would catch that! Good eye!
I need It for a black Sole, how can inmake the glue ve black?
Damnn! My english level Is the worst
They have a black version of ShoeGoo too, buy that instead.
Outstanding
I watch this video and think,, Can you use the shoe goo as a mold material? :D
Quite possible, though I think you’d have to brush on a layer after layer allowing it to set up in between, and make sure you have good mold release. Frankly I don’t think it’s preferable over something like silicone though.
@@SwitchAndLever That is what i was using... but just aquarium silicates. If you have couple of days per coat to wait for it it works. For about a week you have a mold
I meant more a proper mold making silicone that you mix with a catalyst rather than the air curing ones. I guess for smaller molds it could be okay, anything larger than a matchbox and the costs don’t make it worth it though.
Amazon has it. I'll try on cracked open shoe sole and let you all know.....Thanks.
Grab the ice with a piece of cloth. There is a black "shogoo" in the US called "Flex Seal" that might be as good (better?).
Aye, that's a good tip. Don't know why I didn't think of that!
There is also a black Shoe Goo, for making black repairs. I'm sure there are many similar products out there, Shoe Goo is pretty well known though and readily available all over. Though as I learned is super expensive over in Europe.
@@SwitchAndLever Yes. Shoogoo is expensive (for me). Using a tube roller (similar to a fish tin opener) gives more squeeze and less waste... or do you squeeze your toothpaste from the middle, too? Please, say "no." Please say "no."
Of course I do. I worry about getting the small bits and pieces out when I'm nearing the end, not when I start using something.
I came for a Blender tutorial of liquid on shoes.
Haha! Wish I could help you, but that ain’t blender 🙂
Awesome
I hate shoes. Barefeet is the way to go, even in snow.
this tube of shoe goo is driving me insane. i used it 24 hours ago, put the cap back on tightly, but the smell has wormed its way inside my brain. i have become that smell. my teeth are rotting and my spit is caustic. help.
You need a vacation 😂 Good luck.🎉
what brand/model is the knife he used in the video @5:48 ?
I literally say it as it’s being shown on screen, and if there is any chance of mishearing it’s also shown if you turn on the subtitles.
@@SwitchAndLever I miss that! thank you! :)
you can also just lick your finger and smooth it out or dip your finger in cooking oil. Either one will not effect the curing and will stop it getting all over your fingers.
Even so since it’s full of solvents I would minimize skin exposure, if you do this I would at least wear nitrile gloves.
@@SwitchAndLever while it's possibly true that the solvents may be harmful, I've been using that technique with all manner of silicone and other fillers all my life and at 41, I'm fit as a fiddle. I'm also way too far down that rabbit hole to be worried about stopping it now. As a kid I used to break up pieces of asbestos and play with it. OH&S is counter productive in it's current form and has gone too far IMO. That said, if one were to er on the side of safety, fair point.
Actually, I don’t use duct tape to repair my underwear, but hey! You do you and I’ll do me.
Heel-area-ous! But you don't need supporters to afford new shoes when it is that easy to fix your old ones, do you?`Also... you fix your underwear with duct tape? I mean, you are not wearing duct tape briefs to begin with? Thanks for sharing!
whats up with the toothpick ;)
You can’t make a comment that I haven’t heard before a hundred times already.
And I was using silicone like a caveman...
More machining/metalworking, please. The tiny cant-twist clamp, the square, you know, that kinda stuff.
I do all sorts of videos, always have. More machinist projects are bound to come in the future (heck, I just bought a rotary table), and more projects on other subjects 🙂
I think you'll get another 50,000 miles out of the shoe now Daniel. Awesome video Bro.👍👍
Cheers man! I did find new shoes though, that were then destroyed because the airline decided to completely destroy my bag in transit back to Europe.
@@SwitchAndLever them Bastards!!!!
Buddy .
i fix waterproof poly jackets with it
Directions unclear. Got p#nis stuck to shoe.
Oh come on. It's way better for Brazilian wax. You don't even need to get it hot
It’s annoying that you have to wait several hours for it to set up though.
👍👍😊
It looks like you are dubbing yourself! =P
Yep, wind noise completely killed that clip so I had to do what I could to save it.
Why tf is the like:dislike ratio so hostile??
I do not know, it quite frankly took me by surprise. Usually I hover around 5% dislikes, this is more like 30%, and I don’t get it. I’d love to hear from someone why they don’t like the video, as long as one can leave a rational explanation.
@@SwitchAndLever It's probably just because most people would just buy another pair of shoes instead of going thru all that trouble to repair those shoes. Maybe if they were a nice pair of leather shoes and you were replacing the sole/heel it would not get the thumbs down.
I dunno. This is a nice pair of shoes (albeit beaten up a fair bit) that I’ve used and I’ve loved for a long time. I don’t have the immediate “buy new” reaction when things break, I want to repair and restore the first thing I do, and that is the message I want to spread. If people had less of a kneejerk reaction to constantly buy new the world wouldn’t be nearly as polluted as it is now.
I work in Telcom industry and this product keeps my equipment (not shoes) working. This product keeps Expensive tool bags working.
Get job -> Work -> Save up -> Buy shoes 😉
Or how about we try to repair the things which are broke before instinctively buying new things? That's a big driving factor behind so much of the environmental pollution we have, the drive to constantly buy new instead of repair. Quite frankly, it's sickening. I'll always try to repair things as my first reaction, beyond being a good thing for the world it's also a great skillset to have.
@@SwitchAndLever I couldn't agree more with this comment!
Your shoes may last a few weeks longer, I’ll give you that, but does our environment really need all these chemical products in that tube of ShoeGoo ? Next week you’ll be throwing out “solvents toluene or tetrachloroethylene , styrene-butadiene copolymer, and solvent naphtha” ... Are you sure you made things better with this fix ? (I am a repairguy myself, and an active member of the Belgian Repaircafé organisation where we repair everything people bring in, for free or at parts cost.)
@@MyTubeSVp that's making a couple of assumptions though, like that I would not dispose of an empty tube of Shoe Goo in an appropriate way and that that environmental impact will be higher than the environmental impact of shoe production, spread out over those "few weeks" (though in reality they've been holding up for a fair bit over two months by now, no problem, and show no hint of rapid deterioration). Am I sure I made things better with this fix? Reasonably sure, both in terms of environmental and economical impact. Are you with your repairs?
Switch & Lever Not always I guess, but let’s not stop trying. The fact that we consider these issues is already a big step in the right direction. And maybe we overthink things TOO much ...
Geez! Just buy a new pair of shoes!
What's wrong with repairing and using what you have for longer rather than being a mindless consumer who just replaces everything that's broke rather than trying to repair it first? That's largely why the world environment is in such a polluted state as it is. We really need to change people's mentality about this.
oh it's an ad
It's an ad? No, aside from the sponsored message from PCBWay (which I've had in previous videos as well) I have no affiliation with Shoe Goo whatsoever, aside from actually liking the product.
@@SwitchAndLever If it's not- then I apologize - it didn't feel like one till the end -
If I’m plugging a product and getting paid for it trust me you’ll know it. Right now I have no other sponsorship than with PCBWay. What can I say, a dude’s gotta eat as well 😄