Shoe Glue: Instant Professional Grade Shoe Repair Glue

Super strong, worked on my combat boots (sole was separating from the base of the shoe) and they are still intact after using the glue. I wear the boots a lot and walk a few blocks to work, still good.

OK, so let me start off by saying I wear brunt boots and they’re pretty stout boots. However, I put one of my pairs to the Ringer and kick something at my construction site and it started to peel the toe on my left shoe. It was a very uneven cut, not like a manufacturers defect or anything so I waited patiently for this glue and I have to say first and foremost that stuff makes a mess. Be sure you have gloves and an extra towel or napkins as they say in the instructions I cleaned the cut on my boot and then applied the glue. I waited a few seconds and then squeezed it together. Some of the glue naturally came out and I waited the 15 seconds or so, and some of it dried, but some of it did not fly. I squeezed harder. This is when I got glue all over my fingers and the side of my hand. Maybe I apply too much glue the first time I’m not 100% sure long story short I had glue all over my hands, but after a little bit of patience, the shoe closed up nicely and as hard as a rock, I wore the boots the following day and put them through the ringer again and they held up very nice. As for getting the glue off my hand I quickly realize that it was hardening on my hands and the glue was turning white so I immediately grabbed the package and red how to get the glue off my hand and it said you cooking well well all I had was olive oil. It took a little bit, rubbing it in and scrubbing, but eventually I got the glue off my hand. I recommend not wearing any clothes that you might be upset if you get the glue on and I recommend doing it outside with rubber gloves on I guess and make sure you’ve got paper towel to wipe off the excess glue Once the glue harden on my boot I did add an extra bead along the edge of the cut along the outside of the shoe and I gotta tell you it’s as hard as it can be. I give a five stars cause that glue really held up today to the beating that I gave it.

Update 5/25/23 Absolutely LOVE this glue!! As soon as any boot/shoe has an issue I fix it in a few minutes and forget about it, haven't had a repair break yet. Bought 10months ago, have used it maybe ~10-15times, ~60% of bottle gone, store in frige per directions for longer life, tip is clear and works perfect every time (I always wipe tip and put cap on BEFORE holding glued item together).Had the over-strap on an older pair of slip-on Adidas Slides come completely off, thought it was a goner, cleaned surfaces, applied Boot Glue, held for less than a minute, and months of daily use later it's still perfect. Basically, it seems like the shoe material would have to fall apart before the glued area ever failed. And since it soaks into porous surfaces a bit, I think it gets a stronger grip than glues that stick to the surface and can just rip off layers of the material and fail that way, while the glue itself technically didn't fail. I'm no professional, but I'm always up to fixing things and this BootFix glue is a must-have for me now.Tips:I start by thoroughly cleaning the sufaces, usually with 91% alcohol, sometimes acetone for hard, non-plastic surfaces that can handle it), letting them dry (porous materials/leather take a few minutes, don't rush it), make at least 4 little pieces of paper towel folded twice (4-layers so glue can't soak thru and stick fingers), get a trash can nearby, maybe work over a non-valuable surface/cardboard, sometimes put on nitrile gloves that fit tight to fingertips w/o excess rubber to get stuck in the glue, open BootFix glue and use a folded pt piece to wipe tip and break off any dried crusties and put pt in trash w/o the glue sticking to fingers or anything, apply glue to the area, then FIRST use pt piece to thoroughly wipe tip and fully close cap, THEN press surfaces together and hold (careful to not squeeze out glue and get on fingers or anything!), hard surfaces with small beads of glue bond real fast, but mostly I've done shoe repairs with porous matrial and I hold it a minute or more, longer than directions say....and that's it, DONE ✔ I give it a few minutes to make sure it's all cured, especially porous materials that got thicker beads of glue, and then it's ready to use.-at first I held surfaces together first before cleaning tip and closing glue, that did NOT work, the tip got clogged, and when I was barely able to open with a paper-clip wire I never did that again, and it's been perfect ever since.-when gluing two hard materials I use thin bead, too much gets messy and doesn't hold any better, when gluing hard surface like rubber sole to porous surface like shoe uppper/leather/etc I apply a bit larger bead to hard surface so porous material smushes into it instead of glue just soaking into porous surface and not really getting onto hard surface when pressed together)-not sure how much coverage is needed for good strength, with E6000 rubbery glue I tried to get a pretty complete layer of glue over whole surface, but with BootFix glue I kind of make little lines maybe 1/2" apart in both directions, and then a continuous bead or two at the edges so they hold good. Some experts surely know way more detail, hope this helps for the regular people 😊Original Review (edited):I’ve used this on half a dozen things so far, and it’s awesome imo. Seems to give even stronger faster results than the “rubbery“ glues like E6000 and Goop, which I love and have used for years for hundreds of things, including shoes (although for some things E6000 is still the go-to)My first ever use: heading out on a 4 1/2 hour hike with an older pair of shoes and suddenly realized half the sole was separated from the shoe upper. Everyone was ready to leave so I quickly grabbed this glue I had just gotten, scanned the directions, glued the shoe, and literally five minutes later walked out the door to go hiking…. the shoe held up perfectly and is going strong still today, ~15 hours of hiking later. (could've brought the glue and some paper towels along in case I needed to do a repair on the trail....a huge plus for this stuff since it's done in seconds/minutes and needs no cure time!I love this glue for all kinds of uses.