Using Shoe Goo to hold a patch in jeans. It’s orders of magnitude better than those crappy iron-in patches that usually fall off after a couple times through the wash. It lasts longer than needle and thread because it gets into the weave, stabilizes and reinforces the weakened denim around the hole/tear.
Shoe Goo is great for fixing lots of stuff. It’s basically liquid duct tape. Of all the things I’ve attempted to fix with Shoe Goo, the only ones that failed were, ironically, shoes.
Wow awesome, this is going in the bookmark pile. I’ve been so annoyed with every adhesive I’ve tried for fabric. Cheers for this tip!
You completely reminded me of this stuff called “Plumber’s Goop” which I never once used in a plumbing application but it was everywhere in my fix-it life.
It was basically some kind of silicone glue-sealant and heavily rubberized, or at least the cured product was like rubber, but also tougher than a $2 steak.
I used to re-tip pool cues with it! No lie I’ve played more than 10,000 games of snooker/pool and never once did a tip fly off. The ability for it to weather that level shock and shrug it off was incredible to me!
With exception of some incompatible materials, for a few decades it was my “do you want to stick these things together forever” go to lol
It also smelled like a skunk’s ass. And probably was deleting brain cells in realtime. Maybe that’s why I haven’t seen it on shelves for a while
For shoes I use amazing goop aquarium sealant. My dad once glued some quarters to the ground by a vending machine outside of his job. It took 8 years for the kids in the apartment complex to finally pry it up and they ended up taking part of the concrete with it.
Using Shoe Goo to hold a patch in jeans. It’s orders of magnitude better than those crappy iron-in patches that usually fall off after a couple times through the wash. It lasts longer than needle and thread because it gets into the weave, stabilizes and reinforces the weakened denim around the hole/tear.
Shoe Goo is great for fixing lots of stuff. It’s basically liquid duct tape. Of all the things I’ve attempted to fix with Shoe Goo, the only ones that failed were, ironically, shoes.
Wow awesome, this is going in the bookmark pile. I’ve been so annoyed with every adhesive I’ve tried for fabric. Cheers for this tip!
You completely reminded me of this stuff called “Plumber’s Goop” which I never once used in a plumbing application but it was everywhere in my fix-it life.
It was basically some kind of silicone glue-sealant and heavily rubberized, or at least the cured product was like rubber, but also tougher than a $2 steak.
I used to re-tip pool cues with it! No lie I’ve played more than 10,000 games of snooker/pool and never once did a tip fly off. The ability for it to weather that level shock and shrug it off was incredible to me!
With exception of some incompatible materials, for a few decades it was my “do you want to stick these things together forever” go to lol
It also smelled like a skunk’s ass. And probably was deleting brain cells in realtime. Maybe that’s why I haven’t seen it on shelves for a while
For shoes I use amazing goop aquarium sealant. My dad once glued some quarters to the ground by a vending machine outside of his job. It took 8 years for the kids in the apartment complex to finally pry it up and they ended up taking part of the concrete with it.