I reattached the outsoles on this pair of crumbling Jordans
I'm way behind in putting up photos again. This is the first, oldest batch of photos from this spring and summer. More to come as I get time.
Even when I first acquired these, the rubber in the midsoles was beginning to fail. After wearing them a few times, more recently the midsoles disintegrated and the outsoles fell off. I considered just letting them disintegrate, but the outsoles (now detached) seemed OK, it was just the midsoles that had failed.
I decided to attempt to reattach the outsoles without the midsoles. I scraped all the remains of the midsoles off both the upper and the outsole, as best I could.
I then wore the uppers around for a few days to better clean any remaining bits of the foam off of the cloth part of the midsole. Then I put a layer of "ShoeGoo" on the cloth remaining from the midsole, and wore the sneaker like that again to roughen up the ShoeGoo surface. Finally, I used ShoeGoo to reattach the outsole to the uppers.
Frankly, only moderately successful. Without the foam midsole, the outsole is too long, it extends beyond the upper in the toe and heel. Subsequent to these photos, it also has become slightly detached, the ShoeGoo did not fully adhere to the inside of the outsole.
I suspect the lack of adhesion is mostly due to the ShoeGoo starting to dry before I could get the outsole properly positioned. It doesn't appear that the sole is going to fall off, I may try a little more ShoeGoo or even crazy glue to hold things together better.
I reattached the outsoles on this pair of crumbling Jordans
I'm way behind in putting up photos again. This is the first, oldest batch of photos from this spring and summer. More to come as I get time.
Even when I first acquired these, the rubber in the midsoles was beginning to fail. After wearing them a few times, more recently the midsoles disintegrated and the outsoles fell off. I considered just letting them disintegrate, but the outsoles (now detached) seemed OK, it was just the midsoles that had failed.
I decided to attempt to reattach the outsoles without the midsoles. I scraped all the remains of the midsoles off both the upper and the outsole, as best I could.
I then wore the uppers around for a few days to better clean any remaining bits of the foam off of the cloth part of the midsole. Then I put a layer of "ShoeGoo" on the cloth remaining from the midsole, and wore the sneaker like that again to roughen up the ShoeGoo surface. Finally, I used ShoeGoo to reattach the outsole to the uppers.
Frankly, only moderately successful. Without the foam midsole, the outsole is too long, it extends beyond the upper in the toe and heel. Subsequent to these photos, it also has become slightly detached, the ShoeGoo did not fully adhere to the inside of the outsole.
I suspect the lack of adhesion is mostly due to the ShoeGoo starting to dry before I could get the outsole properly positioned. It doesn't appear that the sole is going to fall off, I may try a little more ShoeGoo or even crazy glue to hold things together better.