Projects: Fixed my boots
Posted by llemarie on October 14, 2007
Exciting! I fixed my boots.
I’ve been a walking fashion faux-pas for weeks now, since a metal plate broke at the back of my boots then fell off altogether. We couldn’t have that. New Rock was kind enough to send me a set of replacement plates and rivets with no instructions to take the broken plate off and put the new one in.
The solution: walk about with the broken plate hanging until a piece falls off a few months later and use brute force to pry the remaining bits off. Of course, I should have thought about it before: nothing beats brute force.
After that it took me weeks to finally get my act together and replace the thing. I had to learn how to use a rivet machine – I had to buy a rivet machine. Scary. The whole thing took 10 minutes.
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EdwarD said
Hi Lionel!
I have the same problem with my boots, but i can’t find any place to buy new plate parts. Can you help me with this please? Also where did you buy that rivet machine?
PS: Sorry for my english, i’ve never learned it.
llemarie said
Hi EdwarD,
I contacted New Rock customer support and they kindly sent me replacement plates and rivets.
I bought the rivet machine at a DIY store. Any shop that sells hammers and drills is bound to sell rivet machines too.
Good luck!
Lionel.
Robyn said
since your are the only person who i can find that talks about actually doing something to fix your new rocks, got a question for you. how did you contact the new rock customer support? i have been to there website and i cant get anything from there.
llemarie said
Hi Robyn,
I contacted newrock at newrock.es (I found the contact address somewhere on their website).
Regards,
Lionel.