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Barge rubber cement is what many cobblers use.
I fixed my old Crispi leather tour boots years ago with silicone construction adhesive when they had a similar failure and got a few more years out of them.
You will need to clean off ALL of the old glue on both surfaces for best results with what ever you use.
Got some patagucci 3L untracked pants for free from a buddy (woot woot!). They are a bit long. Can I just cut them, fold the seam inside and glue it with AquaSeal? Has anyone done something similar?
I’ve done this. Works fine. Depending on how much length you take off, you might end up with funny-looking short scuff guards.Quote:
Originally Posted by snowtastic
Should be fine, you might wana iron to get the material laying down the aqs goes on the inside, I would clamp overnight to get the seam laying nice, you might have to do it in a couple of apps but the cuff of a pant is not where your worry about the finish
Thanks for your advice XXX-er and Jongle!
I glued the hem of my 3L hardshell pants, now. It was my first time working with AS but I think it went well. I used the accelerator that came with the package and it was cured in 2 hours. Pretty impressive. Still, I let it sit for 8 hours with some clamps and lots of heavy books on top of it. I think it turned out decent, from the outside you wouldn't know. Let's see how it holds up.
STOKED!
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Nicely done.
Ok so if you put the rest of the tube in the freezer in a jar it might be ok for the next repair
Reattaching a touring sole that's starting to detach (newish boots, this is from repeated application of heat for punching).
Aquaseal? G flex? or something else?
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T-nuts & screws if no luck with adhesives?
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I think they recommend barge cement for boot soles and apparently there are different kindsQuote:
Originally Posted by fleaches
It is hard to get the "good" extra-stinky Barge cement these days, especially in hobbyist quantities since they only sell the big jugs that cobblers use. But that's what you want for solid repairs on things like boot soles and climbing shoes.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
But there are some ebay sellers that will decant small quantities from big bottles of the "Original" for close to the price of the tubes of the toulene-free version: https://www.ebay.com/itm/35303740546...AAOSweateiido&
Dear Doctor Aquaseal,
Hard to believe, but Djongo broke my bong !
I think a proper bong repair should include Aquaseal eh, but Djongo wants to use spray-on Plasti-dip.
Tomorrow is 4/20 and we will be celebrating the holiday with skifishbum, so a proper repair is mandatory for the expected industrial scale bong usage.
~Harry
Too funny. Non ski related post of the year contender.
In the 80’s Shoe Goo was my go to for bong repair…
I'm a gummy guy myself now days But an AQS type product might work
If the Catholic Church was pro-weed, breaking someone’s bong would be considered a cardinal sin.
Djongo better have his rosemary handy.
If memory serves, Djongo broke his own bong as well!
Wish I was there to assist with repair and test it afterwards
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Wish I was there to assist with repair and test it afterwards!
Yo! You try smoothing the AQS with an ice cube yet? Be ideal for a smooth glassy finish on that bong. Well, as far as AQS can be made glassy and smooth.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Wish I was there to assist with repair and test it afterwards!
I'm not really doing AQS work anymore, I told bossman I needed to get paid mo money and also suggested he look at what he is charging , so he gave me an instant 25% raise but then instead of boosting prices/ charging the end-loser which they would have paid cuz its all commercial stuff he decided there wasn't enough $$ in fixing suits SO now they just don't call me and it would appear i have retiredQuote:
Originally Posted by FlimFlamvanHam
if you have noticed any uptick in my cognitive processes as of late it may be cuz I don't have the AQS exposure and I plan to keep it that way
This needs a TRQuote:
Originally Posted by Harry
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
My AQS and Shoe Goo (thick AQS) have been in the freezer for years now and I just pull it out and in a couple of minutes I can get
started on my next dryer-sheet [pronounced as dryer-sheeeeit] project. :)
Repair to a Dakine knee pad, its about a 1.5 " rip in the covering fabric of a Dakine knee pad
splooge on some product and tape a piece of plastic bag over the repair
That would have hurt so good thing I was wearing the Dakine product , I noticed some other bumps and bruises right away but i never noticed that rip til later, its fucking hot but I won't mtb without knee & elbow padz
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I luv the smell of aquaseal and cotul in the morning.
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I alwasy recommend doing the repair on the inside IF you can but there it is not bad and no dental floss or bathtub caulking
now put the tube in the freezer in a jar for the next repair
It is on the inside.
I know pictures are a challenge for sum.
After the main contact patch/area was cured I ran a small and light bead on the inside edge and then the outside edge to ensure a good seal all the way around.
It is not factory pretty but it is solid and fully functional.
A big help was to carve a 2x4 with a depression for the zipper itself to lay in with a nice flange all the way around. I then clamped each end of the suit material to it. The bricks are the weight to hold it all together while the as cures.
Took a couple hours of trimming and fitting to get it ready.
Used 3/4 of a tube along with C240 to make the alteration.
OK, so seeing the zipper pull on the outside I assumed the top pict is the outside of a piece and all you said was you like hufffing tolulene, so now i can see its a dry suit and not a piece of ski gear cuz I can see the metal entry zipper so you put in possibly a piss zipper and its a drysuit
At a glance I thot it was ski gear which i would normaly try to make look pretty but a dry suit I never worried about slopping AQS around, i'm really glad i no longer have to huff that shit
I might with my own suit but I have never dealt with a zipper in commercial suit repair and i did like 500 suits, if a zipper was fucked the suit was fucked,
BTW make sure your main entry zipper is either all the open or all the way closed at all times period, I have had a number of busted zippers where the zip is fuckerd 5" from fully open, so what people do is try to get out of the suit without fully openning the zip and it breaks the core/ fucks the zip which fucks the suit
Yeah, I could have stated that it was a drysuit.
Total cost was $14 for the zipper and $12 for as with accelerator so $26.
No shipping or month plus turn around time for a shop to charge me $100 for same.
Will repeat this for the GF on her drysuit soon.
I have replaced all the seals on various drysuits over the years but this is first relief zippenhousen.
Yeah i had customers like that ^^ I wank about for a week and then they let it slip there have been no coms since the phone guy was hereQuote:
Originally Posted by SB
yeah women can use a man's piss zipper with a funnel, I seen a woman stowing a jergens hand cream bottle that she had carved into an anatomicaly correct funnel
10-4, they make a funnel/trough device. Told her we could make something similar.
Its easy as a guy to take something in stride that can be an ordeal for a woman.
We have a drysuits for appropriate conditions but if i can i will be in a wetsuit.
most everybody up here paddling WW uses a drysuit even in the summer
I liked my Kokotat so much I wished I got it 20 yrs before
BTW if you got latex ankle seals you can retro fit latex booties so having dry feet is pretty nice, gortex booties you have to fix and its a real pain when they leak but latex doesnt leak
Yeah, i have a set of gortex booties ready to go.
Bootie feet are nice but I find I have to use socks inside them for warmth.
Sticking with the latex ankles for now..
At least I can take a leak now with out dropping top.
yeah wool socks inside gortex or latex booties or even neoprene booties for the win, I even wear them inside neoprene wet suit booties cuz then the bootie doesnt develop that stink
Anyone else not excited about putting toulene in the freezer with the food eh? Not even sure I have a glass jar. I have an old nalgene I don't use anymore.
yeah meQuote:
Originally Posted by Rideski
which is why Ever time I tell people to put AQS in the freezer I also tell em to put it in a sealed glass
maybe your mom has a glass jar ?
It helps if one screws the cap back on fully to the AS tube.
an unopenned tube of aqs or skin glue or contact cement will last almost indefinaley but once you pierce the top it starts drying out which means air can get out AND in the tube past the cap which is why they tell you to freeze it and why I suggest the sealed glass jar,
anyone who wants to risk a freezer full of food give er
In a glass jar, isn't there a rubber gasket? Isn't the point that it will leach through plastic?
I was considering fixing a few more things and then giving it away.
Or maybe I could arrange regional AQS repair parties and use up a tube all at once.