Thanks!
As it happens, I went "shoe thrifting" again just lately.
Here is the pair of USA-made shoes I bought very cheap:
Here are my snips of replacing the worn-corner heels. We "Won't" show the extensive rubber heal removal process at the beginning. The bandsaw didn't like that job, so I hogged off a ton of material on the disk-sander instead. That disc sure stayed clean when working the rubber heels!
After contact-cement, I slathered on a bit of shop-dyed epoxy in any edge gaps:
The disc-sander, along with a slight table tilt, allowed making things flush between old and new parts:
Then, some dying, cleaning, and waxing!
