Shoe Goo

Originally marketed to repair old tennis shoes (which it does very well), this industrial strength rubber cement has many, many purposes.
I had a problem with the trim falling off of my second Mazda Rx-7, so I went around the car and pulled off all the trim and re-glued it with Shoe Goo. I never had the problem again. Through all kinds of weather and at very irresponsible speeds, the trim was still on the car after the vehicle was used up, wrung out, stripped of parts for my third Rx-7 and sold to a salvage yard for scrap metal.
Goop makes several other varieties that are supposedly specialized for different applications, but after trying them I keep going back to the original.
-- Justin Belshe
[Note: Apparently "Shoe Goo" is not a trademark. Several products from differing manufacturers use the same name, in very similar packaging. The link below is to the source which Justin Belshe used. Beware of imitations!]
Shoe Goo
$7
George's Shoes

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Gerald
one of my legs is 1 inch shorter than the other from a car accident. I have a lift on my left shoe. Will shoe goo fit the lift on the bottom of a regular shoe sole?
Id say yes it will
I have used it for 20 years and it has never failed me. Give it a try and good luck to you.
Steve
Is shoe goo a vulcanizing rubber cement that can be used to apply bicycle patches to inner tubes?
Mike
I have an old pair of basketball shoes, there is a hole in the corner of the sole and a little bit on the bottom. I was wondering if there is any way I could repair that.
connie
I have some super cute espadrills and part of the shoe has a gap. Can I use shoe goo on that kind of shoe? Is the goo clear or colored?
thanks
connie
Matt
I used shoe goo for shoes. It comes in clear and black i used the clear and it wasent completely clear it was like foggy and it was diffacult to get out of the tube and to place on. Thoes are the only bad things about this. I love it i use it to repair my skate shoes it takes patience to apply.
Gerald, I dint think it would work to put on the bottom of your shoe it is kindof rubbery and i dont think it would hold up well being walked on for days on end
Hope i helped!
Leanne
I have used shoe goo to build up the toes of my running shoes (for jogging), which had the sole of the shoe coming up and over the top: I took it off by using the toe to lift off the brakes of my jogstroller.
I also used it to patch the toes of my son's new rubber boots. He has a runbike/ balance bike, somewhat like a likeabike, and he dragged his toes to brake the bike the first week he had it. Totally went through the outside of the boots so you could see the empty gap inside the sole of the boot. I put several layers (three or four I think) in and over the hole and rebuilt the boot sole. Worked great.
I have also used it to rebuild up a heel that was worn down on another pair of shoes, and to patch a place where the worn rubber on a slipon (like Merrills) suede shoe had cracked across the ball of the foot on the sole. Worked well too.
Finally, the soles of my son's used running shoes detached from the manmade and leather uppers, and I painted shoe goo on to the sole and used a clamp to hold them together 24 hours.
So, it does work very well on all sorts of shoe applications. One does need to clamp it somehow if you are attaching two pieces together. Masking tape can do the trick, or if the pieces are thicker, a clamp. One caution: it does "run". You MUST paint the shoegoo on in a thin (maybe 1mm or 2mm) layer... I used a popsicle stick... and then put the surface FLAT Horizontal, or it will RUN DOWN before it dries. I stuck my shoes with the toes or heels up (and thus the shoe goo horizontal) into an open dresser drawer to hold them. I reapplied as many as four layers, lightly sanding (I used that little gadget they put in tire patch kits to roughen inner tubes) before applying the new layer, in order to build up the worn out area of the sole to match the nonworn profile.
It does wear VERY well on the soles of shoes, at least as good as the original sole material. So yes, it DOES hold up well to being walked on for days (and months) on end.