In winter, when fresh snow covers icy streets and sidewalks, moving becomes difficult and at times even dangerous. To feel confident on the street at this time of year, it would be nice to stud the soles of your shoes like the wheels of a car. To do this, you can get by with waste materials and simple hand tools, and you don’t need any special qualifications.
Will need
- Old studded tires;
- work boots;
- straight and curved pliers;
- screwdriver;
- drill;
- drill;
- construction screws;
- calipers;
- sharpening machine, etc.
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The process of tucking shoes with old car spikes
Using pliers and a screwdriver, we pull out the required number of steel spikes, the so-called, from the old tire. fungal planting.
Using a caliper we measure the diameter of the core, the cap and the length of the tenon.Based on these dimensions, we select the diameter of the drill and construction screws that we will need in further work.
We don’t need to invent anything, we just need to repeat the fungal planting, like in a wheel. To do this, we will drill holes and make grooves for the caps with a T-shaped cutter made from an ordinary construction screw, the diameters of the rod and cap, as well as the length, coincide with the corresponding dimensions of the tenons.
To do this, use a sharpening machine to remove the sides of the screw head to make it easier to insert the cutter into the drilled holes. After this, we sharpen the rest of the cap like a drill. To ensure a tighter fit of the tenons, we do not grind off the head cone and leave it as is.
The installation locations of the spikes on the soles of the boots are determined by the points of maximum load, which are the traces of the greatest wear.
To limit the drilling depth, we put nuts specially selected for the height on the drill, mounted in the drill chuck, and secure them with electrical tape.
We mark the positions of future holes for the studs according to the traces of maximum wear on the sole.
Using the markings, we drill holes of a fixed depth.
We install a homemade cutter in the drill and drill out holes to fit the tenon head.
To avoid damaging the mounting hole, insert and pull out the cutter, tilting the drill away from the drilling axis. We install the spikes into the prepared sockets mainly using curved pliers.
The spikes on the sole look aesthetically pleasing.
The slight protrusion of the solid core and the elastic fit of the spike itself ensure safe movement on granite, metal and other surfaces, and even on ice.
