It's that time again.

I would suggest ebay to find an NOS set for a lot less than you can engineer a poor copy, but I know how adverse you are to all those scammers reside there...

Couldn't you have waited two days?

John ;-#)#

There are people that don't have any shoes and here you are complaining about what type and length of laces you should get for your boots. Life is tough! :-) This is called a first world problem.

Sew your own. I've never done it but there are instructions on the internet for sewing your own shoelaces: The trick seems to be to find a material that has enough surface friction to not untie half way through the day, and also not turn into the impossible to untie Gordian Knot if you double knot the bow. The commercial shoelaces seem to have that part figured out, at least for the cloth shoelaces.

Velcro.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

There are people with no feet to put shoes on, and some without legs to put feet on.

Now people who really care about their laces should learn to tie them correctly.

Forget your degree and knowledge, there is a good chance that you are to stupid to know how to tie your shoes properly.

I shit you not. here is a tutorial on the subject;

Hope this helps }:-)>

That works fairly well, until the loops becomes clogged with crud or until most of the hooks are broken, or the glued or sewed on edges begin to unravel. Velco claims 20,000 cycles before it becomes unusable. My experience is maybe 1,000 cycles if the straps become dirty or is in some way abused. If you put your shoes on and off once per day, that 365 cycles per year. 2,000 cycles would be about 6 years, which is longer than my "casual" shoes tend to last. If the shoes are subject to UV exposure, nylon UV embrittlement will cause even more broken loops and hooks, thus shortening its useful life even more.

US army dumps Velcro for buttons

.... in an electronics repair usenet newsgroup.

hmm, from my point of view, many people are poor money managers. But very good consumers. My comment was tongue in cheek though.

Terry posted this originally a few years back, as a satire of having to read oldschool's postings.

After reading tubeguy's postings I thought it was appropriate.

Ahh that explains it, I was wondering about the post now I can see the reasoning!

Not just oldfool's posts, but there are others here who go through Rube Goldberg lengths to solve a problem that would best be fixed by buying a new one at one half or less the cost.

What are you doing in a repair newsgroup?

:-)

Some people just need to be beat repeatedly in the head with a clue bat until they either catch on or go away.

.PDF is named for Portable Document Format, but it needs a free reader from

Think of it as a non-editable (not necessarily true) file containing text & graphics that is readable on almost any device.

It may contain an index and it may be searchable. It can also be password protected. It can contain forms where you can fill in information. It can also act on those fields like add them and create an answer.

PDF's are inherently safer to open.

I routinely print to PDF format and rarely print a hardcopy. e.g. An Invoice for an online order. e.g. Print this page for your records.

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I bought laces from the auction site. Just bought boot laces. They like to become untied. Good ends and strength. Can be purchased by the inch.

Or you can try XPDF, free from

I use the 64 bit Linux version, but it has versions for 32 bit and 64 bit Windows. Its a free open source program.

Many years ago, I got tired of dealing with Adobe Acrobat bugs, hangs and crashes. So, I switched to PDF-Xchange (free version): which works nicely and does most of what I need. One very useful feature is the built in OCR reader, which will convert a non-searchable PDF into one that can be searched.