What products that your family regularly bought growing up would you never buy today?

[Justin Passing]

I thought that was Hofmeister (sic?)

You're right!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I thought that was Hofmeister (sic?)

Follow the bear!

 

[crystal ball]

Leg of lamb on a Sunday, can't afford one now

 

[fixitflav]

I bought some a few weeks ago!

They didn't stick

So did I. Used to get them from Woollies if I remember, but got these on line. I assumed they'd come with adhesive, but just got the soles! Thought I'd have to buy the right adhesive online, but from the description it was just regular contact adhesive, which I already had. So used that and they've been OK. I'd got attached to this pair of shoes so be sad to bin them.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

So did I. Used to get them from Woollies if I remember, but got these on line. I assumed they'd come with adhesive, but just got the soles! Thought I'd have to buy the right adhesive online, but from the description it was just regular contact adhesive, which I already had. So used that and they've been OK. I'd got attached to this pair of shoes so be sad to bin them.

One of the pound shops sells a wonderful flexible adhesive, for the likes of shoes. I repaired a few pairs of favourites with it. Comes (from memory) in a white, red and yellow toothpaste type tube.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Ajax and Vim are two different products produced by two separate companies.

OK, I stand corrected, thanks. It's much the same stuff though.

 

[JohnD]

. I'd got attached to this pair of shoes

That will be the glue.

 

[Notch7]

4 star

 

[fillyboy]

I still use Vim (which was previously known as Ajax). It's hard to get now, but it can sometimes be found on market stalls or in small town hardware shops.

I sometimes wonder where Norman is now. Probably wintering with his mother in Guildford. A cat, rain, Vim under the sink, and both bars on. But old now, old. There can be no true beauty without decay.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

, and both bars on

Aye, luxury. Them were the days!

 

[Odds]

I sometimes wonder where Norman is now. Probably wintering with his mother in Guildford. A cat, rain, Vim under the sink, and both bars on. But old now, old. There can be no true beauty without decay.

Poetry in prose.
I love that movie.

 

[fixitflav]

That will be the glue.

I thought I might get that, but thanks anyway

 

[fixitflav]

One of the pound shops sells a wonderful flexible adhesive, for the likes of shoes. I repaired a few pairs of favourites with it. Comes (from memory) in a white, red and yellow toothpaste type tube.

Do you remember which shop?
I saw Gorilla adhesive in Tesco which I might get if the soles come off again. The blurb on the tube sounds good but could be marketing hype.

 

[Justin Passing]

Any one newspaper. It was the Mirror in our house. Terrible things. One line of propaganda.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Do you remember which shop?
I saw Gorilla adhesive in Tesco which I might get if the soles come off again. The blurb on the tube sounds good but could be marketing hype.

I remember the shopping centre where I bought it, so from that I have back tracked by searching for pound shops in the that centre, which produced a Poundland shop in that centre. I think I still have the tube in my workshop, so I will check the name on that later..

It's an amber coloured liquid, a bit more fluid than contact adhesive. I bought it to repair the leather toe of a pair of heavy winter shoes, where it was coming away from the sole. I later used it to glue the loose heel back on a pair of high heels - not mine I hasten to add. In both cases, I clamped the parts together overnight, in my big bench vice.

[EDIT] Sorry, I have just checked my adhesive drawer in my workshop and I must have used it all, and thrown the tube out.