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Hi guys,
a while ago the good lady put a hole in her rubber and neoprene wellie. it was right on the flexible bit at the back of the big toe. i tried several time to fix the hole with shoo goo, making sure all was clean and dry, tried lightly keying the rubber but all to no avail. in the end we gave up and she bought some new ones.
now, after a slight altercation with a moronic llama (called Eddie) i now have a hole in the same place in my seeland boots. gutted.
i'd like to fix them but have no idea what i'm doing wrong. i know lots of folk on here swear by it (while i swear at it), so any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Baggins
 
You know i've had the exact same thing. I used to coat my turnshoe soles with it and have fixed up boots before and rebuilt heels etc. I bought some a month ago to fix some boots making sure all was clean and dry etc, and it just keeps peeling off! I wonder if it's due to the different climate or if they have changed the recipe or something.
 
baggins said:
Hi guys,
a while ago the good lady put a hole in her rubber and neoprene wellie. it was right on the flexible bit at the back of the big toe. i tried several time to fix the hole with shoo goo, making sure all was clean and dry, tried lightly keying the rubber but all to no avail. in the end we gave up and she bought some new ones.
now, after a slight altercation with a moronic llama (called Eddie) i now have a hole in the same place in my seeland boots. gutted.
i'd like to fix them but have no idea what i'm doing wrong. i know lots of folk on here swear by it (while i swear at it), so any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Baggins
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Hi- I don't know if he can help you-there is a firm called 'Diver Daves wader repairs' who does what he says on the can. I had some neoprene/other stuff type fishing waders repaired 2 yrs ago after a fight I lost against some sharp spiky veggy thingys I stumbled through trying not to fall on my own rod! Still sound now and cost under £25 incl post. Google it and check it out.

Tom.
 
Theres stormfix, which is good stuff, but Im not sure its fit for your purpose, considering where the damage is. My soles fell off my expensive Simms wading boots, and there was no way i was sending them back to montana for repairs. So glued them back on.

My Wellies took a big rip a few weeks ago as I was bending down prying birch bark off a dead tree, and I simply patched that with camo gorilla tape from wickes, and its held up fine so far. Strongest tape you can get. Just cut out a round patch
 
Based on high praise from a number of years ago, I tried to repair a crack in the rubber bit of my Lundhags using ShooGoo. All was carefully prepared - dry and clean and very lightly sanded to provide a surface to which the stuff could bond - but the results were very disappointing: it just flaked off like dead skin from sunburn. After humming and haaing, I've sent them back to Lundhags for repair and resoling - significantly cheaper than buying a new pair.

My trust in ShooGoo has, as a result, taken a serious battering. I don't think I'll be using it again.
 
I repaired a split well perish split on the rand of my lowa mountain boots were my wife spilt white spirit on them and forgot to tell me and forgot to clean it off,anyway used a puncture repair kit glue and patch and 7yrs later its still stuck tight on there.
 
I think they must have changed the formula - I used Shoo Goo to mend some Nokian boots years ago and it worked very well.
I also used it to make slip resistant knife grips to good effect...
 
John Fenna said:
I think they must have changed the formula - I used Shoo Goo to mend some Nokian boots years ago and it worked very well.
I also used it to make slip resistant knife grips to good effect...
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cracking idea using it for knife grips I bet that comes in handy. Might be good for axe hafts too? I think I'm done with shoo goo now though. I'v been trying to find a good alternative to coat my current turnshoe soles with to make them last a little longer and be less slippy but it's mostly stuff in the U.S that can't be shipped overseas :(
 
John Fenna said:
I think they must have changed the formula - I used Shoo Goo to mend some Nokian boots years ago and it worked very well.
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I think your right John, the last lot I used a couple of years ago was rubbish.

McNett Aquasure seems to do the business. Flexible and long lasting I've repaired my Sorels with it in combination with an old inner tube a few years ago and my son's Hunters got repaired after he ripped them after 3 weeks from new :censored: The repair lasted until he grew out of them and boy did he give them some punishment.

Your doing the right thing by cleaning and keying the surface Baggins, it's amazing home many people just bung adhesives and the like straight on and wonder why it doesn't work.
 
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