"You do something called resoling and re-heeling," he told the New York Post in 2010.
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"You do something called resoling and re-heeling, " the former New York City Mayor and businessman told the New York Post in 2010.
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He has been resoling mountain boots since 1968. He works closely with boot manufacturers worldwide doing a wide range of innovative resoling and repair work. Forensic anthropologists called on Dave Page to help identify the manufacturer of the boots found on the body of George Mallory.AJC (October 10, 1999).
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Other So-Lo Marx product lines — diving suits, rubber cement, resoling material, meat tenderiser, bicycle seats, instant gravy, plaster statuette moulds — face imminent cancellation.Betsy Harris: "'American dream' found in packable, Tote- along boots", The Indianapolis Star 22 July 1984, p.7.
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The last haler to work the tramroad, John Procter, walked the 10-mile return journey twice a day for 32 years. It has been estimated (Barritt, 2000) that he walked or rode nearly during his career on the tramroad, and needed his clogs resoling once per week.
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Both Flarsheim and Bollman retire in 1935, when Marx, president, purchases the entire stock of the Perfect Manufacturing Company, now based in Oakley, Ohio."Officers buy stock", The Cincinnati Enquirer 19 December 1935, p. 19. The firm’s So-Lo Works division makes a rubber salve for resoling worn-out shoes during the Great Depression.
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Vibram also produces soles, which is used exclusively for footwear resoling. Vibram also produced one line of discs, for the sport of disc golf, although they announced, in August 2018, their exit from supporting the sport. They have released several putters, and fairway drivers. Vibram soles were also used as a product placement for Bee Movie, which was released in October 2007.
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The welt forms a cavity which is then filled with a cork material. The final part of the shoe is the sole, which is attached to the welt by some combination of stitching and a high strength adhesive like contact cement or hide glue. The result is highly valued for being relatively waterproof by minimizing water penetration into the insole and the relative ease of resoling as long as the upper remains viable. Welted shoes are more expensive to manufacture than those mass-produced by automated machinery with molded soles.
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Retrieved on 18 May 2020. In 1931, Roll-O-Radio Co. became "Perfect Manufacturing Company (Inc.)",Perfect Manufacturing Company. Retrieved on 18 May 2020. whose So-Lo Works in Oakley, Ohio developed a popular shoe-resoling product. Perfect Manufacturing Company moved to Loveland, Ohio in 1942 with a name change to "So-Lo Works, Incorporated".So-Lo Works, Incorporated. Retrieved on 18 May 2020. From the mid-1940s to the late 1950s, company president Joe J. Marx designed, manufactured and marketed his successful "totes" line of foldable waterproof apparel, starting with "totes" women's slip-on overshoes for rainy days and culminating in Skooba-"totes" full-length dry exposure suits for diving and water-skiing. Bradford E. Phillips purchased So-Lo Works Inc. in 1961, renamed the company "Totes Incorporated" in 1965"Totes" Incorporated. Retrieved on 18 May 2020. and included "totes" collapsible umbrellas in the firm's repertoire in 1970,Betsy Harris: "'American dream' found in packable, Tote-along boots", The Indianapolis Star 22 July 1984, p.7. By the mid-1980s, Totes Inc. had become the world's largest supplier of such umbrellas.Frank Whelan: "Umbrellas Get No Respect", The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) 14 April 1986, p. D1-D2. In 1994, Phillips sold Totes Inc.
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