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Originally Posted by neatshoes200  I've been trying to pull the heel tips off my g/f shoe to replace the tips, but I'm having a really difficult time. I got one tip off, with much effort, and the other I kinda mangled the metal pin, but it is still sticking out, albiet seemingly fragile.
I was wondering if there was a special tool out there that I could use to yank these things off, besides grippy pliers I tried twisting a bit to loosen it, but I don't think it was a good idea. How do shoe repairers do this?
Any help is much appreicated.
Thanks.
Neatshoes |
Hi Neatshoes,
a question I'm pondering about since years! I'm changing usually my heel tips myself. Usually with a pipe wrench. Mostly this works quite well but sometimes the result is only a torn off plastic heel cap. I have no better idea than to pull the metal stud with brutal force out of the heel. To twist it back and forth - as Dr. Shoe proposed - could help. But if you are breaking the stud new heels are necessary. But this is another topic for us DIY home workers
But that's not the whole story. There is no reliable international standard for the width of the hole in the heel. Obviously there are different sizes. It could happen that you don't get the new tips into the heel because the hole is simply too narrow. I just ruined the heels of a pair because of using a hammer. The plastic heel was splitting up. I'm convinced that there are at least two different sizes for heel tips. A standard size and another size for thin stiletto heels. Who knows more details?
micha (*also interested in this problem*)