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Post by atcassidy_30hobby on Dec 18, 2005 20:20:30 GMT 12
dont worry guys theres no way of telling who answers. unless if you decide to tell.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 18, 2005 22:22:24 GMT 12
My parade shoes used to be brilliant when I was in the RNZAF. However, I hated spit-polishing and used a much easier and better method. I 'polished' them with a nice coat of Johnstons Klear Floor Shine tm applied with cotton wool.
It produces a fantastic shine with little effort at all. And no-one can tell. it is not even detrimental to the shoes. If the polish is left a long time it can crack a bit, but simply washing the shoes and then applying another coat fixed that.
I still wear the shoes occassionally with my suit, etc, but I have let the shine disappear so they look like my RNZAF work shoes now..
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Post by atcassidy_30hobby on Dec 19, 2005 13:37:37 GMT 12
wow, thanks for the tip, floor shine never thought of that. i have found (to my disappointment) that some cdts tend to cheat by using oil and it is very obvious as stuff sticks and casts and strange shine, but they all got set straight.
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Post by atcassidy_30hobby on Dec 19, 2005 13:39:03 GMT 12
hey cadets, since its the holidays its time to catch up on your polishing. woo your inspecting ncos and officers by really putting some effort into those shoes.
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Post by atcassidy_30hobby on Dec 19, 2005 13:41:58 GMT 12
this year its my goal to have shoes that i actually find easy to march in this years ones were too big (but i worked so hard on them) and i kept tripping up on my own feet. i think il be getting raf issues and ill work hard out to get them up to advanced level.
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Post by atcassidy_30hobby on Dec 19, 2005 13:42:31 GMT 12
if anyone has seen cpls kings shoes they'll know what i mean.
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Post by atcassidy_30hobby on Jan 7, 2006 12:22:18 GMT 12
yay. I'm so happy. My shoes are beautiful, all my hard work finally paid off.
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Post by phil on Jan 26, 2006 17:18:08 GMT 12
We had a group of three or four cadets turn up at the gun room at Ohakea a couple of weeks ago asking for 'Steyr anti corrosion coating' to put on their shoes. Now what they were really after I'm not sure, but that sounds like a pretty fancy name for gun oil to me, even though I can't see why you would want to put that on your shoes.
So I gave them a small bottle of CLP (Gun oil) and sent them on their way after a tour of the armoury and some advice on how to polish shoes (including the Johnsons Kleer mentioned above).
Well that oil must have worked because next morning we had another couple of groups come through, but one guy came in who was pretty rude and pretty much demanded we give him three more bottles. Well bad luck, mate! Demanding aint the way to get favours so that was the end of that game.
Now I really do not recommend that oil for your shoes! If you want it shiny, it will take about the same length of time to put on nugget as it will any other crap.
The good news is that our new shoes now look spit polished straight out of the box, and I'm sure sooner or later you cadets will end up being issued this style as well, a quick polish of these babies and you get the result that used to take hours of carefull spit polishing.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 26, 2006 19:12:39 GMT 12
Pre-polished shoes? The new Air Force don't know they're born mate!
I remember the days when we had to polish floors at GSTS till the GSI could see his watch in the shine. Now it's all carpet I hear! Pah!!!
Good to hear others have cottoned onto Klear Floor Shine. I'd never have risked that at GSTS though!
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Post by phil on Jan 26, 2006 19:58:23 GMT 12
I've never bothered with the Johnson's Kleer myself, but know those who have and it seems to work. I put on the nugget, run a lighter quickly over it to get it to melt together so it looks wet (but not enough to burn, oh no, that is very bad). I then let it cool, then spit polish with a damp cotton ball and a bit of fresh nugget. Been doing it that way for ten years and it is quick and very effective. Once you've built up a layer of nugget and filled in the leather grain you can get it very shiny pretty quickly.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 26, 2006 20:12:49 GMT 12
Yes, that was pretty much what i used to do too. The Klear only came out formy work shoes for the monthly big parade with CO's inspection, or perhaps special parades. Once my Parade shoes were polished up they pretty much stayed that way, thanks to Klear coating over the top.
I knew a F/Sgt who'd had a pair of ordinary shoes polished by an Indian street vendor when he was on exercise in Singapore. They were stuinning, and he said they'd been like that for over a year, and he now kept them for parades only. It only cost him a dollar or so for the polish, and they were like Coldstream Guard's shoes!
He got put onto the Queens Colour Party, and they were supplied special shoes. Have you seen them? Whoa! Black mirrors basically!
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