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Originally Posted by mark k
I used the Sidi boots last year for 8 weeks solid and 18000kms, they were very comfortable and water proof (well at the beginning but I never cleaned them or polished them so that probably didnt help). They did develop a squeek, will have to do some oiling of them. The soles are hardly worn, wonder if they had some issues with a batch?
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My Sidi Adventure boots are great but the squeak while walking was driving me nuts. I went as far as buying Forma Adventures but they are crap compared to the Sidi's and I sent them back. So I searched the web and found some pointers as to how to heal my squeak. Most advise mink oil but there was no consensus of what the final resolution is. I could not find the mink oil so I tried something else. This is what I did and the squeak is 99% gone;
- take the upper closing binder/ankle hinge off by prying out the little holding clips. You can completely remove the hinging part.
- treat the leather parts with ample boot wax (I took horse riding boot wax, black)
- what I found is actually that the gore-tex lip in the shaft is rubbing on the leather and I think that is responsible for 50% of the squeak. So I waxed the leather side very well and applied silicone spray on the gore tex lip!
- then I cleaned the plastic parts on the inside and applied spray SKI wax on the inside of the plastics! The stuff that is intended to go on the bottom of your skies! Also put some on the inside of the fixed binder plastic parts.
-put it al together and you can go stealth mode!
Cheers,
Noel
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