XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-21 02:52, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 13:32:53 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >   
   >> About then or earlier I bough some good boots for mountain sports. I   
   >> think I actually used them 4 times over the years, but the last time,   
   >> the sole got unglued from the rest of the boot, on both boots, like a   
   >> gaping mouth, at the start of the trek. The boots were not even ten   
   >> years old, maybe 6. The rubber was still soft, but the boots were   
   >> garbage material. Fault of the glue, or one intermediate layer that   
   >> decomposed.   
   >   
   > I have a pair of Limmer boots. They aren't cheap but they've went from   
   > nailed to glued soles. A complaint of the nailed soles was heat transfer   
   > in the winter.  I went hiking in Arizona on a nice spring day with the   
   > temps in the 90's and the trail was on black volcanic rock that really   
   > soaked up the sun. The glue melted. I wasn't happy duct taping an   
   > expensive pair of boots and then doing a more permanent fix with Shoe Goo.   
      
   That's not likely going to happen with boots sold in Spain :-)   
      
      
   Mmm... black volcanic rock I haven't tried, but black asphalt, yes.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
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