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Filling in pit marks on sole caused by spd cleats

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Coffee Snob:
Pair of spd shoes with reinforced soles, is there something  I can use to fill in the pit marks left in the sole after tightening down the spd cleats ?

mrcharly-YHT:
why do you want to?

these should be covered by the cleats, unless you've had to make major adjustment.

Coffee Snob:
The pit marks make it harder to get the cleat exactly where you want it to sit when you are tightening them down. I was wondering if I put a thin layer of superglue over the pit marks in the area where the spd's bite the sole, would this firstly do the job and secondly, be safe ?

De Sisti:

--- Quote from: Coffee Snob on 13 January, 2022, 09:43:57 am ---The pit marks make it harder to get the cleat exactly where you want it to sit when you are tightening them down. I was wondering if I put a thin layer of superglue over the pit marks in the area where the spd's bite the sole, would this firstly do the job and secondly, be safe ?

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If you have a soldering iron, you could use the heated tip to "straighten out" the pit marks/grooves, then start again with your re-alignment?

mrcharly-YHT:

--- Quote from: Coffee Snob on 13 January, 2022, 09:43:57 am ---The pit marks make it harder to get the cleat exactly where you want it to sit when you are tightening them down. I was wondering if I put a thin layer of superglue over the pit marks in the area where the spd's bite the sole, would this firstly do the job and secondly, be safe ?

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I've never had pit marks so deep that this would be a problem, although I can see how that would be the case.

Depends on what your shoe soles are made of. I would try De Sisti's suggestion, or, if you don't have a soldering iron, buff the marks very firmly with something smooth, like the handle of a butter knife.

I've had success smoothing out gouges on my rotomolded kayak with this method. It's a sort of combination of the friction heating and the smoothing pressure.

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