Selleys Sole Grip

Bring it Back – Sole Grip was the best stuff. Please bring it back Selleys, just look at all the people saying so.

At $10 a small tube it is Superglue – I purchased a $10 tube of Selleys Sole Grip from Woolies as it promises to work with materials that superglue does not work with. I tried it on an object but it took too long to bond so that did not work. When I used it I used a wet wipe to get rid of any glue to stop me using it again (a problem with superglue). I went to use it a minute later… Read more

and I could not get the glue out of the tube. I squeezed but it just stayed inside. I then used a needle to break the seal and it came flowing out. For $10 I expect better. I expect the old Tarzan's Grip would work much better.

Sticks strong to rubber and polycarbonate – I tried two other well known clear glue products, unsuccessfully, before trying Selleys Power Grip to lock a rubber material to a polycarbonate material. Works. Strong. I am a convert.

Gets solid too fast – This glue gets solid within first 3 seconds. So there is not enough time to close the cap and apply the glue evenly on the surface. Need to do everything very quickly and in many small iterations. On top of that, grip is weak.

Peeled off my leather sole walking on wet asphalt – Ok so I bought it after reading the last guy’s five star review. It worked so well when I applied it and wore the shoes in the dry but the first time I wore it to walk on asphalt after it rained it started coming off. I only walked for 10 minutes. I didn’t walk in puddles (they’re good shoes). The grip is good but the adhesion to the leather sole… Read more

is terrible. Maybe it works better if the shoe sole has lots of deep grooves like a sneaker but the next day I could peel the sole grip right off no worries leaving my shoe in the condition I had applied it on. It doesn’t glue to the sole well at all. I’m glad I didn’t buy another one because at first i was convinced it is a fantastic product. Now I just have to wait for a rainy day for all my other shoes to return to original condition!!

Grips well, cheaper than a resole – I have a couple pairs of business shoes that are fine in the dry, but turn into roller skates when there is the slightest bit of rain on the ground. Walking around on the slippery tiles they make Melbourne CBD footpaths out of was deadly dangerous. This shoe goop seems to do the trick - it's a thick resin with sandpaper-like grit in it. Easy… Read more

enough to apply, cleans up well with acetone. Just be sure to do it outside, because the fumes are intense.

First few outings in the rain and it seems to have given these shoes a new lease of life, I can just walk without concentrating on not falling over.

Update: Seems to last reasonably well too - a year of occasional use later and the gritty layer has worn out a bit (as you'd expect), but still better than before.