Wednesday, December 1, 2010

How to Make Rubber Slipper Sandals

Make your own rubber slipper sandals and enjoy the comfort of being barefoot while protecting your feet. Use these sandals to lounge around the house or to practice your running sport. These shoes are an alternative to your regular shoes, offering protection against sharp objects while giving you the freedom of being barefoot.

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    Place your foot on a white piece of paper so that your entire foot fits on the paper. Press down on your foot to flatten it a little. Trace the outer lines of your foot. You want your trace to be slightly bigger than your foot.

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    Remove your foot and pick up the paper. Smooth out the curve of your trace, and make the toe area a curve instead of the toe bumps, as if you were drawing the sole of your shoe instead of your foot.

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    Cut around the outside line of your trace to give you a little extra room. Turn the tracing over and step on it with your other foot to see if it fits. If it is significantly different, make another tracing for this foot. Place the cut-out on your 3/16-inch thick polypropylene rubber sole material. Trace the outside of the pattern with a pencil, and cut out the sole with heavy scissors. If you are using only one sole pattern, flip the pattern over and cut out a sole for the other foot. Otherwise, use the tracing you made for the other foot.

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    Step on the soles and make a mark between the first and second toe with a magic marker. Make two marks on either side of your ankle just in front of your ankle bone.

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    Punch 1/8-inch holes at the marks with a leather hole punch. Punch the side holes about 1/4 inch from the edge on the marks you made. Avoid using a knife or nail to make the holes, as this will lead to tearing.

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    Push one end of your lace material through the toe hole from the top to the bottom. Make a knot in the lace on the bottom. Push another piece of lace from top to bottom through each ankle hole, and knot it on the bottom side of the sole. Cut the ankle laces to the same size with scissors. Cut the front tie lace to the size needed to meet the side-wrapped laces, and tie around them.

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    Place your foot in the sandal, and wrap the side ankle laces around your ankle in Roman-wrap method. Tie the front tie lace to the lace around your ankle.



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    Tuesday, November 9, 2010

    Chilean Mining Accident Stimulates Innovation in Footwear

    The Bata Shoe Museum in Torronto,Canada is currently displaying the special type of Safety Boot that was recently designed for the Chilean Miners trapped in Miners San Jose’.Manufactured by Bata Industrials ,the challenge was to produce a boot that could be transported to the miners more than 600 metres underground. In order to fit down a narrow tube that reached the miners ,all components of the boot needed to be collapsible. The boot features hydrofugated leather with high water resistance and flexible rubber outsoles. The inner sock,which was created using breathable membrane,was designed to help the miners suffering from fungus infections on the feet. The also incorporates a metal safety toe. A display of this specialized footwear will be on view at the museum untill Monday, November, 2010.
    About the Bata Shoe Museum:
    The Bata Shoe Museum is dedicated to uncovering the role of footwear in the social and cultural life of humanity.The museums growing international collection of over 13000 objects touches on 4,500 years of history. A varied programme of events and exhibitions lets visitors discover the stories behind footwear from many lands and cultures.Futher information is available at www.batashoemuseum.ca.

    Tuesday, March 9, 2010

    Converse C9894 Military boot ( due August 2010)

    Converse C9894 Military boot ( due August 2010)

    This boot is constructed as a DIRECT ATTACHED. Besides being slightly easier construction to manufacture, the most important factor about direct attached construction is the stronger bond.

    Cement lasting is considered a mechanical bond. You have to physically cement both the outsole and the upper, allow them to air dry, heat them to a specific temperature, and then physically press them together to create the bond.

    Monday, February 15, 2010

    Making CDMA / GSM / 3G Antenna

    Your Signal modem / mobile broadband is weak? try this way, with a Antenna GSM and CDMA 1900 Mhz might be one alternative solution to for those who want to make your own and require only simple equipment and low cost.

    We know that the speed internet access of cellular (mobile broadband) both GSM and CDMA are determined by the received signal strength. If you have problems with signal strength below the required equipment to make the antenna GSM and CDMA 1900 MHz:

    • Cutting pliers
    • Bor
    • Cutter knife
    • Tang shark
    • Solder + lead

    * RG58 cable (cable Tv antenna can) according to the length of each

    * A tin cans, tin cans may be powdered milk. See details in the picture.

    * Jack BNC male + female (can also jack type)

    * TV antenna jack Male + female

    * PCB blank size 4X8 cm (for the induction of the antenna on Mobile phone)

    * 0,8 mm copper wire (you also can use from large copper)

    After the above equipment has been prepared following all steps of manufacture:

    1. Clean the paint on the outside of the can

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    will be like this

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    2. Cut the copper wire as long as 30,716 mm copper wire and solder it to the end of the BNC jack female

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    3. Punch a hole the size of cans for female BNC jack. Hole distance of 38,401 mm behind the cans. and attach the female BNC Jack that have soldered with copper wire into the hole cans. So be like this

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    if you look next

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    4. Create an antenna from the PCB Induction plain created by the flow path as shown below with a box cutter knife. Forming a groove / line up and down. Female jack solder to the PCB antenna television, the middle path to ground while the edge of the PCB to + antenna connected to the copper wire on the can antenna. Note the center and edge lines are not related.

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    5. Connect the antenna cable end to male BNC jack

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    6. Connect the other end of the antenna cable to the TV antenna jack male

    7. Replace Jack BNC male to BNC female while the male TV antenna to jack female TV antenna on PC antenna induction. Now, antenna ready to be installed outside using the pole. And point the antenna to the nearest BTS provider.

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    8. Manufacture and installation of the antenna is complete. After that Put your mobile phone or modem is above induction PCB antenna and see the signal change obtained, if the signal obtained was a kid means the antenna is not correct, looking up at the antenna to get better.

    Note: If in your area without the antenna has a signal but only a few bars on the antenna does not need to install an antenna outside Put enough on the computer and find a good antenna direction to get additional bar signal, and your mobile phone / modem is ready for use with a stable signal.

    Antenna specifications:

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    • Working on the line frequency: 1464.402Mhz (low frequency) ut to 1912.917Mhz (upper frequency)
    • D = 120 mm (diameter cans)
    • Lg / 4 = 38,401 mm (distance to the back of copper wire tin)
    • Lo / 4 = 30,716 mm (high copper wire)
    • 3/4Lg = 153,603 mm (length tin)