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Boots, shoes, trainers: steel, composite, which?


ToughButterCup

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I went through three pairs of boots during our build, all just fell apart.  The only pair that stayed the distance (and are still OK) are a pair of steel toecap boots I was issued with about 20 years ago, when I had to walk through a tank repair workshop every day for a couple of months.  No idea what make they are, but they are just showing a few scuffs, nothing major.

 

The main problem I found was that either the soles just became detached from the uppers (and I couldn't find any glue that worked to hold them on - the sole material itself seems to just go crumbly) or they went like those Dewalts, with the synthetic leather stuff on the upper just cracking and splitting apart.

 

Interestingly, the steelies I was issued with seem to have a name that looks to be Polish, as far as I can guess.  Looking at them they are real leather with a stitched through leather sole, and a bonded on rubber tread below that.

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