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I talked about this several months ago and have just recently found the cure. I've used it on a pair of New Balances and on Reboks. Feel inside the shoe near where the ball of your foot would sit, you will feel a soft bubble or flabby part of the sole liner. From the outside of the shoe, take a awl or other shape object and slowly twist a hole thru the rubber sole at approx. the spot you found inside the shoe, until you can feel the sharp instrument on the sole liner but it doesn't penetrate the liner. Take a small tube of Crazy Glue, insert the tip in the hole in the sole and smoush a generous portion into the shoe between the sole and the inner sole liner. What you are trying to do is glue the two layers that have burst or sprung a leak where the old bladder used to be in the shoe. Place the shoe in a vise or place a heavy object on the shoe for a few minutes until the glue sets. Obviously you no longer have that air bladder but to me, I can't tell the difference.

Ya see folks, this is what happens when you can't hike for extended periods of time and your bored. Next week; Turning those broken hiking poles into a dandy crossbow.

The plastic that holds a six pack together can be used as arrow fletching (feathers).

Thank you Nighthiker, I was wondering what I'd use for feathers. I told a friend back in Michigan about my amazing fix for squeaky shoes, I asked him what he did about squeaky shoes, he replied: "I throw them away" what a spoil sport.

My buddy and I built a crossbow when we were in Woodshop and Metalshop class in Jr. High. We had one unfortunate experience which I will relate.

We had this great crossbow, and we were making arrows for it by buying the alluminum arrows you can get at any sports accessory store in Texas. We would cut them off then re-thread the end to accept a point.

One day we were sitting around and thought, "Hmmm, we could fill one of these bad boys with gun powder, cap the back end, then put a primer in the tip instead of a point. Then it would become a crossbow grenade!!!" (remember - we're jr. high students - about 12 yrs old or so - not the brightest people around)

So that is exactly what we did. It took some figuring, but we finally got a model that would work. We built several test models (sans gunpowder) to test our designs - we were very systematic and deliberate in what we were doing.

Finally the day came to test the real deal. We built 3 to see what would happen when shot into different surfaces, then took off into a backwoods area where there weren't any houses, but a nice road with a good hard surface. The first two didn't do much - they back end didn't hold the pressure and they just spouted flames out the back side. The third one though - that worked. Too well.

We shot it straight up so that it would hit the primer on the cement on the road. Seems we didn't consider the fact that when all that powder went off inside a METAL container - shrapnel was bound to occur. Fortunately, following a boom that took 12 years off my life, none of the shrapnel did any major dammage to either of us. You'd think we had learned our lesson - but no, we built a few more and showed them to our friends under more "safe" circumstances.

Ah, youth. I'm genuinely shocked I survived my childhood.

olesma wrote:remember - we're jr. high students - about 12 yrs old or so - not the brightest people around)

Some thing just don't change with age, do they? :P