Heel repair/replacement

Anne_Louise · 11th March 2004, 12:27

I wonder if anyone can help me to find a shoe repairer who will replace or repair a broken heel.

I have the most beautiful pair of red pointed toe stilettos with cut-outs and little silver rivets accross the vamp. I must have bought them fifteen or twenty years ago and wore them a lot until one of the heels broke. My local shoe repairer was reluctant to glue it in case it broke again and caused me to be injured (this litigious society!) so they've been lurking in the back of a cupboard ever since. They are lower than I usually wear - 41/2" - but they are so lovely I'd wear them a lot if I could.

There are no reapirers near me, so it would have to be by mail-order.

Help please!!

Anne Louise

Dr. Shoe · 11th March 2004, 22:17

Achilles would be your man.

He trades under the name of "Craftsman" in Well Street, London E9.

If you want help or more details let me know.

Anne_Louise · 12th March 2004, 12:23

Thank you Doctor!

The husband of a friend, who used to work in London years ago, took several pairs for me from time to time to a Greek cobbler. It would be too much of a coincidence if this is the same one!

Could you please e-mail me with details?

Anne Louise

Firefox · 12th March 2004, 19:30

Where is the break? Is it in the metal rod in the stiletto or where the shoe attaches to the heel?

Dr. Shoe · 12th March 2004, 22:37

I think you'll find they're all Greek LOL!

It doesn't matter where the break is, the only way to rectify the problem is to throw the old one away and fit a new one.

Achilles will probably replace both so that they'll match.

Firefox · 13th March 2004, 01:17

Not true. If is has come off at the heel/shoe it can be often fixed by drilling deep holes and inserting screws. I guarantee a repair done this way will be stonger than the original and I can prove it by calculation

If the tube has broken, the heel will need to be replaced.

Dr. Shoe · 13th March 2004, 13:14

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Originally Posted by Firefox

Not true. If is has come off at the heel/shoe it can be often fixed by drilling deep holes and inserting screws. I guarantee a repair done this way will be stonger than the original and I can prove it by calculation

If the tube has broken, the heel will need to be replaced.

You are right but the gist of the original post was the fact that the "repairer wouldn't glue it", if the heel had come off, then he would have nailed them as a matter of course.

Firefox · 16th March 2004, 01:59

Yes, also the nails seem very difficult to force in to the hard nylon material of the heel without a specialist power tool. That's why I use screws for home repairs..

Skirted-UK · 16th March 2004, 02:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Firefox

Not true. If is has come off at the heel/shoe it can be often fixed by drilling deep holes and inserting screws. I guarantee a repair done this way will be stonger than the original and I can prove it by calculation

If the tube has broken, the heel will need to be replaced.

I have repaired 4" heels that have come off the shoe by using screws and high power Araldite, and as you say it is much stronger than the original nail fixing.

Dr. Shoe · 16th March 2004, 20:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Firefox

Yes, also the nails seem very difficult to force in to the hard nylon material of the heel without a specialist power tool. That's why I use screws for home repairs..

They need to be eclipse nails too.