How to melt shoe polish?

It's certainly more attractive than the obvious alternative.

LOL

My current pot-o-doom is full of the smelliest tallow I could find for a theatre which wants stinking, smoking candles.

It goes against the grain ... but I don't think it will lead to my demise.

Mary

Yes ... one of the benefits is planning your funeral :-)

Mary

Great news!

Sorry, but I just had to check at Tesco.com for the price of a new tin of the stuff.

Was that a big tin or a small tion?

Or do they all come in the same EU standard tins now?

Mary

replying to Kooky45, DonK3866 wrote: It is ok to melt it i do it all the time on our stove on low heat in fact i think it works better and get a high gloss on my boots

oo er missus.

Wots that pong, oh its my latest hot shoepolish and white spirit sponge cake, want some? Brian

My dad used to melt the crumbly dregs of shoe polish in the tin on the gas hob...

It's quite inflammable.

Don't ask how I know.

The missus thinks I'm weird, but I only ever use olive oil now. It works well enough for me, but I'm not known for being very, er, soigné.

I don't know when I last used shoe polish. Its like a tie, never ever think about those either, never wear em. Brian

HoH strikes again - "posted on November 29, 2004". Do these berks think the OP is still sitting there waiting for an answer?

Nope. Just welcoming a chance to talk about something that isn't politics :-)

This might assist you with posting to a newsgroup, albeit through a website:

- If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just enough text of the original to give a context.

Is the OP still alive? How old is the post you're replying to?

It was supposed to be a practice with army boots to apply thick polish and then light it before blowing it out and buffing. At least, that's what I was told.

I tried it on a pair of shoes when I was at school and it made the toecaps shrink, making them quite uncomfortable. My mother was not impressed, and I had to keep wearing them.

Cheers

'Tis true, particularly for brand-new boots that had dimples on the toe caps. Boys in the school CCCF used to melt black boot polish in an old dessert spoon over a candle flame until it caught alight, pour it over the toe caps while still burning, and rub the back of the hot spoon over the flaming toecap to smooth the dimples and get the polish to penetrate. When cool, the toe caps would be spit-and-polished for hours, with spit, polish and a soft duster. You could get a mirror finish that way, just like patent leather.

Not me, I might add!

I wasn't including you in the 'berks', just those on HoH who reply to 12+ year old posts.

I should be less sensitive, thanks :-)