Climbing Shoe Rand

I’m going to try my hand at repairing my shoes. Vibram rubber sheets are easy enough to find, but how about the rand??? My google skills haven’t uncovered the material - does anyone know what the rand material is called and/or where I can order some?

Thanks

same question. did you ever find the answer?

Why not just support climbing shoe repair shops?  

It’s fun to do stuff yourself sometimes.

If you take a look at a lot of LaSpo shoes e.g. Katanas and Miuras, you'll notice that the rand rubber is not "sticky". It's about as firm as a truck tire. So I wouldn't sweat getting 5.10 rubber for the repair. Just cut up an old bike inner tube. Buff/sand the rubber surface really well or the glue won't stick.

Plan B - gently heat up a dead pair of Mocassyms and peel the rands off. That actually is Stealth material.

i doubt 5.10 still has rubber kits, but you can also rip it off an old shoe.

Since I created this thread, I started a footwear company - Toetem Sandals (ToetemSandals.com) with Patent-Pending Convertible & Adjustable straps, along with the first Approach Sandal!

We were supposed to launch a Kickstarter campaign today, April 1st, but we post-poned due to Covid-19.
All that to say - I was able to find rand material via wholesalers and distributors. I never was able to find it through regular retail outlets.

Julian H wrote: I resoled my Birkenstocks with recycled rubber and it tripled the weigh of the sandals . It wasn’t as durable as a sole material. Now I have rand rubber :-)

You  might want to check to see what nasty chemicals your recycle rubber has. You are using as an insole and it is in contact with the skin 

Great question!

It’s 100% safe for skin contact. We will post the supplier’s lab results on the website when we update it in preparation for the Kickstarter. We have done our due diligence in this regard.

Rone Taylor wrote:

Great question!

It’s 100% safe for skin contact. We will post the supplier’s lab results on the website when we update it in preparation for the Kickstarter. We have done our due diligence in this regard.

Can you post where you ended up finding your rand rubber? I'm trying to make a small town go at it. So far I only found a 1.2mm rand rubber and it feels too thick and stiff from my liking.

Jeff Erwin wrote:

Can you post where you ended up finding your rand rubber? I'm trying to make a small town go at it. So far I only found a 1.2mm rand rubber and it feels too thick and stiff from my liking.

Back when 5.10 did sell resole kits, the piece of rand rubber they included was 2 mm thick. I found that that was, given my rudimentary skills, a bit too thick to work with. I'd say 1.2 would be pretty close to perfect. Now, having said that, I just put the calipers on some pieces of rand that I've peeled off dead shoes. The Mocs were the thinnest at 1.5 mm. Some low end Evolv and LaS shoes have fully 2 mm thick rand rubber. I think the high end LaS shoes have thinner rand rubber, but - as I mentioned up-thread - that stuff is super hard, so I never bothered trying to harvest it.