{"id":996,"date":"2014-01-30T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theshanty.us\/?p=996"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:15:33","slug":"emergency-boot-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/2014\/01\/30\/emergency-boot-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency boot repair!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One morning while lacing up my boots, I broke the lug off the outside. It looked kinda like this one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"204\" src=\"http:\/\/theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20140101_172046-1_result.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-997\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20140101_172046-1_result.jpg 204w, http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20140101_172046-1_result-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I needed my boots quickly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I drilled out the rivets and pulled them out of the boot from the outside. I didn&#8217;t want a hole in the padding on the inside.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then I used my butane soldering iron to burn a circular hole behind the hole made by the rivets.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I then shoved a small eye-bolt through the freshly burned hole and back out the rivet hole.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The last step was to apply clear, quick setting epoxy to the base of the eye-bolt to keep it in place.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"204\" src=\"http:\/\/theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20140101_172105-1_result.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-998\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20140101_172105-1_result.jpg 204w, http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20140101_172105-1_result-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been two months of daily wear since then and the repair is holding up well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One morning while lacing up my boots, I broke the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repair"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"chuckularone","author_link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/author\/chuckularone\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/category\/repair\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Repair<\/a>","tag_info":"Repair","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}