merry christmas it is the night before christmas and all through the house
i did not expect to come in here but i came over from my house because when i
put on the boots that i wear around my house no i've stopped driving now no more rhyming um
we're a house that we take off our shoes it's not like we freak out if people wear
their shoes we don't really care but for us in the house we take off our shoes and we leave
them by the front uh yeah both of us do both my partner and i we both are our wear socks or uh or
things like house boots yes i'm about to admit that i wear hugs yes oh and look i i understand
that you might think of uggs as a design abomination that is totally fine with me i
don't really care um but if you're complaining about them it guarantees me that you're not
currently wearing a pair because when you put your feet in these they're amazing they're amazing
um it took me a long time to find this color this charcoal blue gray they don't make this
shoe for men so i had to find some giant size 15 woman's boot from europe and it took
like seven months for them to go find it in some warehouse somewhere but it was a good deal on ebay
because they haven't made this one in a long time anyway um i woke up today and i uh stumbled over
something in the basement and my shoes started delaminating and by the end of today look at that
that's annoying to say the least yeah this whole thing has separated just like really seriously
this one's fine this one's separated so what are we gonna do i'm gonna glue it luckily this
is a really easy this is not a one-day build it's barely a one-hour build it might be like
one episode of seinfeld build kind of moment um we're gonna use my favorite contact cement
both in terms of smell and operation um and by the way thing two came by the house tonight
and we exchanged some gifts thing too gave me some smart wool socks can i tell you somebody
posted this on reddit the other day and it's so true something you don't know when you're young
socks are like the best christmas gift i'm so serious i love getting a good pair of good pair of
socks and my family has bought me socks for years okay come on i need to use a vice to actually
open this
okay oh there's already a brush in the can yeah but i'm still going to pour it
out into the cup i'm going to use this brush oh god i love that smell it is nauseous stuff
it's not safe for humans but only using it for a few minutes here be fine um oh this stuff is so
tenacious in a good way so uh that's the offending boot i'm gonna put this one on
yeah don't hate me because i gave into the hype these boots are super comfy
and they will be again once i take care of this malarkey okay so we're gonna wanna separate those
so i need a sticky stick like this and give it a little bit of business like that excellent
and i'm gonna take a little bit of this glue start to paint it out to the
out to the edge of the foam here
this is a could this be a single shot build is that is it possible that we might be able to do an
entire build in one shot i mean that's asking a lot of the viewer
really sort of limiting the uh the visual majesty okay
it is really gummy um yeah i i certainly could thin this but you know what i kind of
want the tenacity from the slightly thicker stuff
when you're gluing out to an edge with barge glue go right out to that edge let's like
really hit your marks if you don't give it a place to start peeling it's like it's
like not giving champagne a nucleation site it won't fizz um it's really really
just best practice with barge gluten with any contact cement to get way out to the edge and
make sure your whole seam is good all right that's good i'm very happy with that it's even coat
uh get rid of this thread and ernie and now we're going to do the underside
and this i'm going to concentrate first on the outside do what you kind of do called
cutting in you know when you're painting a house just gonna make sure that there's
a bead of glue right out at the outer edge and only after i'm sure of that am i gonna
then go in and make sure the interior is covered and i can see the old glue there
and whichever care free assembler well they actually did a tight job of it
i don't mean to denigrate the work that came before me just i'm a little astonished that
these things just totally started falling apart i've only had them for like six months
all right oh this is going to be a nice solid joint this is going to be great
oh uh if it looks like spider webs as i pull it away that is actually one of
the ways we made spider we make spider webs in hollywood actually it's the old noxious
way when everything was poisonous but now i think they use a thermal glue and an air gun
i certainly we did some of the under the quidditch field
uh bleachers for the first harry potter film at ilm i remember them
bringing in one of those web machines it was really cool to watch it go all right
now these two surfaces are so ideal for gluing it really requires almost no prep at all
like we've got tooth we've got porosity it's
everything you could ever want from two mating surfaces
just trying to make sure i have coverage
that's it
okay
this is great this is great this will be really a nice positive rejoining okay
i can see that the outer edge could use a little bit of love right here
great uh now it's time for the holy blow drying
when you're gluing with a contact cement there is actually a window of opportunity for the gluing
so you don't want the glue to be totally dry you don't want the glue to be totally wet you want it
to be somewhere in between and the in between that you want is that it is no longer coming
off on your hand at all and it is slightly tacky the bottom is probably pretty close
close to that the top being much more dimensional the top under likely going to take a little longer
if you let it dry for over an hour you'd actually have to reapply the glue because
then the glue just wouldn't take after an hour it's like so hard it will never join itself but
in that window of opportunity you take two surfaces coated with barge glue
and man never the twain shall be rent asunder again
i feel like actually we're pretty close here um i'm gonna get a helper
there's nothing like a teflon thwacker
so here we go okay i've done
i missed all right here we go coming on down not much to do but just follow my lead
yep yep yep yep yup excellent all right let's get you going here
remember when we made the raincoats for alcatraz same thing
okay so walking out is only going to make it better and stronger but i don't
think there's any evidence yeah there's no evidence that uh that a repair was ever made
let's get our close-ups here we go
yeah yeah there it is the seam looks really good you can see these are brand new i mean
like six months old i just wear them in the house i only wear them around the house
all right that was the very first one-day build i've ever done in a single take 12
minutes i don't know if we'll cut it entirely but thank you guys for joining me for this
have a merry christmas happy holidays stay safe and i'll see you next time