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

[fixitflav]

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.

Thanks, there are several Poundlands not far from me.

 

[Brigadier]

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 used the Gorilla Glue.

Thoroughly cleaned the soles first.
Keyed them with a bit of sandpaper.
Glued, then left them for a couple of days with 20kg weights on.

Went to trim the overhangs off a few days later, and the soles started peeling away.

 

[JohnD]

There is a "stays flexible" adhesive for shoe and leather repairs, it seems to work like a rubber solution. I might have a tube somewhere

 

[Ihavenojob]

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

Same here, never had chicken back then as that was more expensive.

 

[fixitflav]

I used the Gorilla Glue.

Thoroughly cleaned the soles first.
Keyed them with a bit of sandpaper.
Glued, then left them for a couple of days with 20kg weights on.

Went to trim the overhangs off a few days later, and the soles started peeling away.

I won't use that then. Mine are OK so far but I might try cold vulcanizing fluid if they come off. Rema, made in Germany was the original, but others around nowadays.

 

[fixitflav]

There is a "stays flexible" adhesive for shoe and leather repairs, it seems to work like a rubber solution. I might have a tube somewhere

If you find it, please let me know what it is and where to get it.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

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

We used to get The Express delivered daily when it was a reasonable quality broadsheet. Not the sensationalist tabloid rag it is now. Sat and Sundays would be Express and Mirror. Don't know where we found the time to read them all, but the bottom of the rabbit hutches were always well lined.

As an aside - in 70s/early 80s the couple that ran the local newsagents/convenience store had a gold Roller. When the paper boy was on holiday, the owners used the car to do the paper round for him. The old man drove while the wife got out the passenger door done up to the nines and fur coat to deliver the paper to each house. Was quite a spectacle.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

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.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Repair-Adhesive-Waterproof-Leather-Canvas/dp/B07H2JK676/ref=asc_df_B07H2JK676/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309912023430&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3000502257746744358&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045632&hvtargid=pla-698160208002&psc=1

 

[fixitflav]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Repair-Adhesive-Waterproof-Leather-Canvas/dp/B07H2JK676/ref=asc_df_B07H2JK676/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309912023430&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3000502257746744358&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045632&hvtargid=pla-698160208002&psc=1

Thanks, I got the soles on Amazon and various adhesives came up on the same page, but not that one.

 

[crystal ball]

I worked in a shoe factory, the conventional method of sticking soles was a contact adhesive which was brushed on to each surface, then placed on a heated carousel, passed on to the sole press which was an inflatable bag at high pressure to finish the job

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I worked in a shoe factory, the conventional method of sticking soles was a contact adhesive which was brushed on to each surface, then placed on a heated carousel, passed on to the sole press which was an inflatable bag at high pressure to finish the job

I suspect the main thing, especially making a DIY repair, is the pressure.

 

[ellal]

"Pink slime" can be added to beef products as a filler.

Back in the day the pink slime was 'Angel Delight'...

Dessert of the devil !

 

[Mottie]

Stick-a-soles and Blakeys to get the most out of your shoes.

 

[JonathanM]

Mattessons liver pate. Used to love it.

 

[crystal ball]

Stick-a-soles and Blakeys to get the most out of your shoes.

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I worked with a guy who used to make those from flat bar, he also used to pick up used tea bags and re use