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A clever idea for dressing the ends of childeren's shoelaces athome
Do you have a clever trick for dressing children's shoelaces?
My son loosely ties tennis shoe laces such that they always fray even after I put glue on the ends, melt them, or knot the ends. Here is a picture of his shoes that I'm dealing with now: http://img259.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_185lo.jpg Whatever (patent pending?) solution you provide has to have the hard dressing because he often pulls the laces out of the eyelets. New shoelaces aren't necessarily the best answer because they too will fray. Neither is simply scissoring the ends (it's not repeatable). What I need is a repeatably cheap method to prevent fraying and to harden the tips for lacing that can be applied at home as a DIY to make my child's sneaker shoelaces last longer. Do you have a clever idea for inexpensively repeatedly dressing shoelace ends that you can share with the world? |
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A clever idea for dressing the ends of childeren's shoelaces athome
Dr. Emily Sockerill wrote on Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:03:57 +0000,
Do you have a clever trick for dressing children's shoelaces? http://img259.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_185lo.jpg I snip the ends, dab with white glue, and then strangle about a half inch from the end with a few loops of common thread. After the glue dries, I smear the half inch end with Crest toothpaste. That hardens into a usable shoelace tip. |
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A clever idea for dressing the ends of childeren's shoelaces athome
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:24:26 +0000, Rock wrote:
Do you have a clever trick for dressing children's shoelaces? http://img259.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_185lo.jpg I snip the ends, dab with white glue, and then strangle about a half inch from the end with a few loops of common thread. It's not cheap but heat shrink tubing works well. Someone out there may know of a source for inexpensive heatshrink tubing perhaps? |
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A clever idea for dressing the ends of childeren's shoelaces at home
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:33:36 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
wrote: Someone out there may know of a source for inexpensive heatshrink tubing perhaps? http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=shrink+wrap+tubing |
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A clever idea for dressing the ends of childeren's shoelacesat home
On 11/21/2012 10:33 AM, Danny D. wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:24:26 +0000, Rock wrote: Do you have a clever trick for dressing children's shoelaces? http://img259.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_185lo.jpg I snip the ends, dab with white glue, and then strangle about a half inch from the end with a few loops of common thread. It's not cheap but heat shrink tubing works well. Someone out there may know of a source for inexpensive heatshrink tubing perhaps? http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/category/265/Heat-Shrink-Tubing/1.html is one place. Locally it depends on whether or not you have that type of a store. Fry's Electronics sells it for not very much more. |
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A clever idea for dressing the ends of childeren's shoelaces at home
http://www.harborfreight.com/127-pie...set-67524.html
Harbor Freight to the rescue. Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Danny D." wrote in message ... On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:24:26 +0000, Rock wrote: It's not cheap but heat shrink tubing works well. Someone out there may know of a source for inexpensive heatshrink tubing perhaps? |
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A clever idea for dressing the ends of childeren's shoelaces at home
"Danny D." wrote in message
... stuff snipped It's not cheap but heat shrink tubing works well. I use adhesive lined heat shrink tubing because the regular stuff tends to slide off eventually. Alternatively you can put a little hot melt glue on the shoelace end, let it cool, slide the heat shrink tubing on and reactivate the hot glue when you heat the tubing to shrink it. -- Bobby G. |
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