well it finally came to time when I have to replace the laces on my snow boots so
I went on Amazon and I need 96 inch laces for these are 8 feet and I went on
Amazon and they wanted almost $20 you know 1618 dollars for laces of that
length but then I saw there were paracord boot laces on there and that
got me thinking I have a bunch of paracord I bought 500 feet of it years
ago and I've used it on tons of projects and the only the hard part would be
making the little tip to feed it through the eyelets of the boots and then I saw
people were using heat shrink tubing which is used for electrical work too
when you make an electrical connection of wires you put the heat shrink on
there and it seals it it's waterproof and it gets hard so I thought I'll make
my own boot laces now obviously this was free to me because these are two things
I had but even if you had to buy it you can buy 250 feet or a hundred feet you
could buy a hundred feet for ten bucks of paracord you can buy 250 feet for 18
bucks on the heat shrink tubing you can get like a hundred of them for six bucks
so actually you're spending the same amount plus you're getting tons of
paracord which you can use all over the house so here's how I made it so here's
one I've already done and then I have to do it on this one and for this one it
was so tied and worn I actually had to cut it off I couldn't get it off the
laces and this one I've been able to kind of feed it through but it's this
one wasn't as worn as bed but I've already made one tie in it so you
measured this out and you cut the paracord to that length and I'm
surprised the paracord seems a lot stronger than the existing boot laces I
had it's not a paracord you have multiple strands of stronger little
thread if this is too thick for your boot laces you can always pull some of
these strands off and you'll have just the outer casing but for - was perfect
it was the right thickness so I'm using it just as it is so you just take the
laces and you measure out exactly how much you want and even if you wanted to
make the laces a little longer so example if sometimes people like to wrap
the laces around the back the boot before they tie it you can make
them as long as you want so you just get it to the length you want maybe add a
few inches and then cut it so here's the paracord I just cut so you don't want
this kind of end you want to cut a nice clean end like this here you then feed
the heat shrink tubing on and you don't want to go all the way to the end you
want to pull it back so at the end is actually right about here because you
want it you want to make a little point on the end here so you can use a heat
gun or a lighter or anything to heat it up and then I like to it's hot suit but
you want to make a little point there because that's where you're gonna feed
it through the eyelet so the most important thing is just this getting
that point there like that and then you heat up the rest of it evenly so it
wraps around and just like that you have a nice end of your laces and
this will harden up when this cools down this will become really hard and you'll
be able to feed it through right now it's a little pliable and bendy cuz it's
hot but in a minute or so this is going to harden up and become really hard
you
okay it's been a minute or two and these are hardened up and you can just lace
them through and the eyelets on a my boots are pretty small but these are
able to fit through them pull from the front but it fits your just fine
so here's a quick update after going out and using the boots and really tie in
the laces I had two of these end pieces fall off
I think this paracord is real slippery and even though these were cinched on I
could just pull them off they weren't really fuse down there so I'm gonna pull
these other two off yep this one came off this one's actually really on there
so that one wasn't going to come off without a lot of force but the other
three did so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take my hot glue gun I'm gonna
trim these ends up again so they're nice and flush I'm gonna put again I have a
hundred of these heat shrink tubes for six bucks so there's no chance of
running out I'm going to put a different end on it but this time I'm gonna push
it through but this time I'm going to put a little dab of hot glue on the
paracord then pull it through then heat it up so the hot glue will really hold
it in and then I'll be able to cinch it so here you can see it's frayed cut it
nice and flush feed a new heat shrink on there pull it forward
take the hot glue and then pull that forward
so that's it it's nothing real complicated but for the same price as
buying a pair of laces in 5-10 minutes worth of work you can have tons of heat
shrink tubing which might not be super useful to you but you can get a 100 250
feet of paracord that you can use all the time so theoretically I mean you
could make 10 pair of laces for the same price as buying one of them so I hope
this helps if you have to replace some your old boot laces don't just spend 20
bucks and buy them make your own and they're just as good if not better than
the laces you could buy so I'm happy with how they turned out so I'm gonna be
doing this on all my boots from now on let me know what you think Thanks well I
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