I have just noticed that there is a hole in my boots.
To test the hypothesis that modern materials science and manufacturing techniques had rendered obsolete Sam Vimes’ famous saying about boots, last autumn I bought the cheapest winter boots available at Walmart.
They are not fashionable, well-fitting, or particularly warm, but they looked indestructible and waterproof — made of seemingly tough material with good think soles. The soles probably are indeed indestructible, but just at the heel where they meet the other part of the boot, some kind of design flaw has resulted in a hole in exactly the same spot on each boot after only one winter of light use.
I will patch them and see if the repair holds next year.
Hurricane tape, “shoe goo”, and paint. It’s a pretty solid combination.
You can get better contact cement than shoe goo, pretty much any hardware store should have some, better quality for a better price usually. That as seen on tv shit is made to be sold to people who don’t know better to use once or twice, you wanna get the stuff made to be used and abused in a work environment.