Answer: Do you have a heated stretcher? Different kinds of materials stretch differently. If you have a heat gun, be very careful and get the shoe wet again. After it sets on the stretcher, dry it with the heat gun and leave it on the stretcher.

I also have heard of guys using an old curling iron. Remove the metal clips and just use the barrel with lower heat. Always be careful.

Gene Hartsock

Hartland Shoe Repair Co.
St. Paul, Minnesota

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Answer: There is also a tool called a wrinkle chaser. It's a small heating iron with a teflon coating. After it heats up, you can spray the upper with stretching liquid and run the iron over the upper chasing the wrinkles down from end to end.