Today I resoled a well-worn pair of Timberland boots. The original softer foam soles had dry rotted and were falling apart, literally coming of in chunks. I resoled them with Vibram’s best 100% rubber, chemical resistant hard soles. I had to cut the old soles off with a Milwaukee hacksaw and smoothed with a sanding drum on the drill press.
The soles were attached using Barge’s rubber contact cement plus 11 brads hammered into each heel.
It looks pretty good certainly passable. The boots were clamped overnight for the rubber cement to cure.
Well first I had to work on my ASE tests which I passed all of them I had to renew. Now I’m helping the neighbor work on his truck the oil sending unit keeps failing.
This week I helped my friend prefit a Mustang II style front end under his '49 Chevrolet truck project. The kit also includes brackets and leaf springs to update the rear end. He's using a drum brake rear from a '95 Caprice.
Not auto, but removing a leaky rudder port for reseal and probably some fiberglass repair around the mounting hole. Every Winter I clean the bilge and by the next Fall it is nasty and slimy again...
I restored the headlghts on my Gen 1 Tundra today using a White Diamond kit that was on clearance at Advance Auto Parts, for $4 marked down from $10. Here is the kit.
It is a single-use kit and was worth the $4. It has two towelettes covered with white paste that I suspect is a cleaning solvent and cerium oxide powder. Then after polishing there is a black sealant that seems to have a finer abrasive. You apply that and let it dry on the headlights then remove it. The kit came with a microfiber towel but I used my own.
Before
And after
I could see the yellowed plastic being deposited on the towelette
Going to rotate my tires front to back then swap out my rear brake pads for EBC Yellowstuff to match the fronts and swap out my front rotors for Stoptech Sport slotted to match the back.