Epoxy for Leather Glove Repair? Test result: ★★★½
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Leather work gloves can be pricey. Extend their life with a little patch and some epoxy. Chamois was used in this video, but any scrap leather should do just fine.
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"Backbay Lounge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Good Idea to repair gloves. thanks for showing your experiment.
My advise:
You could cut out leather stripes from an old glove to repair an newer one. Use a proper leather glue (like "kövulfix") apply it to both sides and let the pieces dry for 10 to 20 minutes seperately. Then stick the pieces together and apply pressure by hammering (maybe against a wooden dowel inside).
This should repair the glove very well and should be flexible.
The sound of chainsaws is suprisingly cute when sped up XD
When I worked in the mill we coated our gloves with shoe repair glue. It was both flexible and added grip. It could also be used for patching.
Like shoe goo?
The flexibility of such an adhesive would probably help in the long run.
Renia makes a product called QuickSohl, which is basically a PU cement with pulverized leather filler. I imagine something like that would work great if it's not too stiff, but getting hold of a tube isn't trivial. Using ShoeGoo or Aquaseal (SR or FD) might also be fine.
For that matter, DAP Sidewinder (the clear kind) would probably also work. It can be thinned with xylene or naphtha if necessary. It might also be possible to use a neoprene (polychloroprene) contact cement, but I don't know how well it would last.
Shoe goo or E6000, pretty much the same, both work better for this kind of repair than epoxy. Anything that will hold the sole of a shoe on for years is going to be great at other things!! They are the duct tape of the glue world.
"you get attached to them" - well, you do if you glue your thumb into them ;) Nice repair - wonder if contact adhesive might be more flexible?
Allan Stirling- 😂😂😂 This made my laugh way harder than it should have. Thank you, my friend.
I cut the intact fingers off the leather gloves I throw out to use as leather thimbles. They work great at protecting my fingers during carving
Cool idea, I'll give this a try! Just a side note, the best way I've found to wash leather gloves is to stick them in a bucket of hot water with shampoo/conditioner or just straight conditioner! I use some kind of cheap "moisturizing, scalp whatever" coconut oil conditioner from CVS and it works great... just soak for a few hours, agitate really well, rinse them and hang them up to dry! They come out clean but still nice and soft! Thanks again and God bless!
8:08. "And now it fits my thumb perfectly", would you say it fits your thumb ...like a glove?
Also, isn't using a chainsaw going to draw ire from the axe crowd, akin to Bob Dylan going electric? ;p.
That joke... oh man do i wish i hadn't looked at the comments... but i did.... almost didnt regret it too....
You might try preemptively patching the new pair of gloves in the places same where the old ones failed.
I like how the gloves ended up having the same exact failure as the jeans that you pointed out the repair in. The patch held up but the weakened material right beside the patch fails.
We heat our house with a wood fire boiler and the cheap leather welding gloves from harbor freight are my fire grabbing glove of choice. The leather is a little thinner than the bigger hardware stores but the price is right.
welding gloves are what u want
@@necroodin The cheap welding gloves from HF wear out quite quickly in my experience.
@@JDeWittDIY maybe for welding but just for moving logs around in my furnace they work great. Plus they are 1/3 the price of the last pair I got.
Thanks for the tip. BTW… Jagger, RADiator, yinz are making me homesick. 👍👍👍
I almost wonder if adding some shredded tire rubber would make the epoxy more durable, plus, more grip as an added bonus!
Great video for to be wearing the Pants of Foreshadowing
Absolutely maybe. Yeah Im totally going to try this cause Im a glove lover
i did this but with textile glue, the glue i used waterproof and washable up to 40 degrees celcius :) also dried really fast
i also used that same stuff for the patch material. epoxy probably becomes somewhat hard ill finish watching and see the result.
Hey Pocket! I got a great little fix for you! you know those little holes that completely ruin a nice down jacket? Try bike tire patches, they come with the glue and everything for them you don't need to sand it first like bike tires but the3y will stay on there for years, go through the wash and don't even look that bad. they are at least better than unsightly duct tape patches on your clothing.
Ha. Nice. Thanks, but I think I'm just going to replace those jeans. I mean, there _are_ thousands of people watching- I could at least wear some respectable pants.
Great video, thanks!
Leather gloves/good leather gloves, are expensive. For many years the only ones I would buy and use were the Wells Lamont Grips work gloves. They cost around $15 a pair back in the 70's/80s IIRC and they were a source of financial pain to me at the time when I had to replace a pair.
Hey there I just wanted to say, that I really enjoy your Videos and I watch/listen to them to sleep. 😁😅
Simple fix. I'd be tempted to try it with barge glue as it's flexible and less prone to cracking like the epoxy.
It appears as though the stretching forces that would normally be spread along the length of the leather thumb piece instead got focused somewhat in the area beneath the patch due to the relatively stiffer patch area. Failure analysis is always interesting if not timely.
One of the best things about having a proper open fire like that.. Your clothes smell of it for days..
Had a BBQ back on the 1st.. Grabbed the dirty tshirt for a quick messy job outside from the clothe basket a few days back and body heat filled the air with the smell of the smoke and fire again. Lovely.
I liked the videography in this video :)
Dude :-D
I totally share your enthusiasm regarding oiling, washing, and using leather gloves in general - but epoxy?!?!?!?!?
I'm aware it's just a feeling..
Enjoyed the video regardless,
warm greetings :-)
Peices off iron on denim patches work good to. From my own experience both for pants and gloves.
ive sown leather most of my life and repaires shoes after my old ones had a shoemaker shop so next up for you is to try glue that dryes in seconds cyanidsomthing glue and a patch inside and outside and it will hold up .
Good video. I like your style. Look forward to more.
From what I've heard, engineering with soft or flexible materials is dominated by how to transition between soft materials and hard materials - you might have needed a more gradual transition in stiffness between the epoxied leather and the (weakened) regular leather, though i'm not sure how you'd do that!
Basically the more you spread out the transition between hard and soft, the less any force on the hard part is concentrated on the join to the soft part.
I totally buy what you've just said. Patches always strain the area _around_ the patch. In the case of a rigid epoxy spot on a soft substrate, it might be prudent to blend the thickness of the epoxy out. A gradual fade will give the numerous smaller, less important stress-relieving cracks a home, which will better forgive flexibility.
That said- in this case, the second hole was really only mildly related to the patch. It was already in progress from the beginning.
Try using pig hide gloves, that's what I use and they seem to last longer than leather gloves
Same backing pad then shred the material and mix with epoxy. Apply with old tooth brush..etc
Save yourself the time get nomex. Nice video.
You should have used shoe glue and wrapped the thin leather around the outside of the thumb and on the inside. I've got a pair of deerskin gloves and repaired the tips of both thumbs this way.
I'd feel some actual thin leather as a liner along anywhere you'd get callouses if it were your bare hands would be a great investment.
A good idea would be to clean the tear, and put 2 pieaces of leather, one on the inside and one on the outside, maybe?
I think with a slightly larger piece of patch material and the use of leather cement (works kind of like white glue but stronger and thinner) you'd have more success. Maybe epoxy from the outside, leather cement on the inside.
Cyanoacrilate? (CA Glue/Super Glue)
Or Super *Adhesive* if you want to de-brand it
Not CA glue. Leather cement is MUCH more flexible when it cures but it takes longer to set up. Maybe 20-40 minutes.
you gave me a great idea - why not glue in the reinforcements into the gloves before they actually go into service - using the tips and parts of other older gloves on their way out
I just might do that.
@@pocket83squared i am gonna do it - older gloves or even dollar store cheap leather gloves - cannibalized to strengthen more expensive pair
Seems like it would work great on a single cut or something; however, I find that most times when my gloves get holes, its due to so much wear that the leather has thinned out to the point that a new hole will just spring anyways.(as happened to you)
What if you sewed on patches of leather wherever your gloves tend to get holes first? Or contact cement them on. Would that prolong the life? Just throwing ideas out there.
Now all that’s left to do is refer to your property exclusively as “the homestead”
I don't understand that. What constitutes a "homestead?" It's like calling yourself a "maker" because you cut something with a saw. Sure, I have a house in the woods, but applying a trendy categorical label to my lifestyle is something I can do without.
I guess I do understand it- It's for views. As are the terms 'bushcraft' and 'prepping.'
When working with metal I love using rubber coated gardening for all generic shop work like moving metal, grinding, and tac welds. That way my hands stay cleaner and safer, and my welding gloves don't take such a beating. But I might want to switch over to leather gloves to offer more protection.
Pick up a few pairs of harbor freight welding gloves, they're my go to for dirty work.
@@dynamicequilibrium5322 While That would work the main reason why I use the ones that I do is that when framing together something and tacking they give me more dexterity then a welding glove. would, but i might need to give it a try
Since you mentioned that the gloves soak up epoxy, I wonder if that's another way to do the hand-shaped bookends (just with cheaper gloves), by just coating the outside completely in epoxy. You'd probably have to add weight to the inside, though, and the bb's already looked pretty nice imo, but it's an idea.
I see u put handles on the cart :)
Next video: The yoshimoto-glove?? ;)
See most people will just trash gloves with a whole and buy a new pair but in my family we have always fixed anything that needed it. So there ya go guess we aren't alone
yeah wrangler star did a video on glove care side note why would you not use the other glove with holes in it find a good spot and remove a piece to fill in?
@@pocket83squared was referring to using the sham wow
if u r doin patches, u might as well just stich them on, on both sides and then hit the stiching with glue
Pro tip: epoxy won't adhere to packing tape
Also, isopropyl alcohol and acetone both work well to clean up uncured epoxy, and acetone can even be used to thin it. (Heating it up makes it cure faster in addition to making it flow better.)
Might need to learn how to saw down raw lumber with all those trees around
Well, let's see. There are 2 choices. 1) Epoxy an extra piece of leather from an old pair of gloves on to a brand new pair before it wears out. 2) Buy a much better made pair of gloves. STIHL makes a really good pair of gloves but they're not cheap. Just my opinion....
11:43 Your dead eye has increased
In the handle wrap video, I hit the back of the log on purpose. I knew it would be tough as hell. It is. However (just from the amount of axe work I do), my aim _has_ improved a bit in the last few months.
looks like when the gloves start springing leaks their lifespan is nearing the end. material stressed and frayed and so on.
looks funny when sped up
Why is the hammer holder on wrong side of jeans? you would think they would put it on right side.
I can deal with that. What is absolutely unforgivable is the fact that the hammer loop is too big for a hammer. They slide right through!
Carpenter jeans = poser pants.
Have you looked into Rocket Mass Heaters? I don't know if they're snake oil, but as advertised they are the best means of heating up a space with little fuel. (Wood included, no coal required)
Ok, book report time. I just spent 2 hours watching vids and reading about them. It doesn't seem like snake oil at all, but in typical subculture form, it's being presented as though it were a 'new' concept. *It isn't.* The idea of holding heat with a mass of dirt, straw, clay, sand, and rock is as old as the brick hearth itself. They were making fireplaces into heated beds long before we had many of the technologies that we now consider modern: like cast-iron. As for the "rocket," it's also only pseudo-nouveau, which is to say that it's naturally appealing to the ultra-earthy hipsters out there who've never actually played with fire.
As a rule, on a planet with finite resources, "sustainability" is fools' gold when the inhabitants there have insatiable appetites. But perhaps they (the aforementioned trend-chasers) will gofund the technology, and that could help develop it into a safe and efficiently designed consumer product.
The entire premise can be reduced to these parts:
1) insulated, J-shaped firebox more thoroughly consumes fuel, reduces deposition, acts as integrated chimney.
2) non-insulated primary flue becomes a direct-to-air radiator.
3) massive insulation of secondary flue creates slow-release radiator, stores large amounts of heat.
Do I consider the present state of the technology efficient enough to warrant its construction right now? Ummm, that's tough to answer. A comparison will have lots of pros and cons, and it all depends on context. No matter what, it's unquestionably an interesting development on an old idea. Still, the pessimist in me is annoyed by those out there moralizing about it, touting their reduced emissions of wood-burning fuel as though it were worth some ethical brownie point. As an ecological extremist, my position is becoming increasingly misanthropic; we can't 'reduce' any of our unwanted by-products without an actual numerical change- that is, _in population._
@@pocket83squared Taking the time out of your day to reply to one of your viewers: very unnecessary and greatly appreciated. :) I suggested the concept as I know you get chilly while working, even needing to use a heat gun to melt your resin. On a large scale, the most "sustainable" option would probably be to go with electrical heating, assuming the electricity is generated in a nuclear reactor. The U.S. DOES need to cut down on CO2 emissions, after all. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/most-least-toxic-countries-pollution-environment-2017-2
Overpopulation also seems to be tied to pollution, so I agree with you there.
Keep up the great videos (not sure if you saw, but I replied to a thread on an earlier video too).
@@pocket83squared You're starting to sound a bit like Thanos at the end there.
Ha. I'm not actively becoming a super-villain quite yet. I'm just recognizing a mathematical reality that nobody likes to admit. There was lots of sanctimony in a few of the rocket heater testimonials I read, and I was reacting to it up there a bit. I do that every morning ;)
@@pocket83squared sure, I guess, but look at photos of LA 30 years ago and photos no, and then try and honestly say clean air rules didn't make a difference. Rocket stoves may be a pass in terms of energy consumption, but cleaner burning fires are way, Way better for the people nearby.
So, did it improve the grip at all?
As for further recovery, I wonder if you could salvage enough leather from the worn out gloves. As a comparsion, it might be interesting to sew the patch on instead.
Just use the old gloves; cut a patch and stitch the patch on. No it won't hold forever but i'm sure you can come up with some ideas.
If you insert the latex glove into the leather one and inflate, you don't have to wear it. Or worry about gluing yourself.
cordwood challenge!
No. I don't have energy to spend on something like that. That guy is a wonderful human being, but that's the fundamental disagreement I have with him. My energy goes exclusively towards my productivity; to me, skills are not an end in themselves. If they develop along the way, that's nice. But they are also transient obligations that require maintenance.
Lots of stuff can be made with the effort I would spend on that stack of wood. That's also the reason I use power tools! Not that I don't appreciate his ideology- there is lots of wisdom in it. I just wouldn't take it to that extreme. I love my chainsaw.
Thanks for the video. When gluing the patch to the inside of the glove would it be easier to turn the glove inside-out?
I don't know. I mean, it kinda depends on the hole. I think in this case I probably did it the easier way. Plus, you want the patch to take on the actual shape, and not the inside-out shape.
That is an impressive fire!🔥🔥👏🏻👏🏻 I think I’ll try that configuration some time. Any tips?
You mean fire tips? UNDER!
No, seriously- I was thinking about doing a video like that. I burn so much now that it's rapidly developing into a skill. There are certainly techniques that improve efficiency. But it also depends lots on the fuel and the conditions.
You already saw how I typically start. But fire maintenance? Ok. One thing I will give you, in case you are burning hatchet-cut branches: arrange them into a cone, standing upright. Just like I have at 10:43.
As the tops burn and drop in, they will point to the center. Take this (now shorter) pointed nub and turn it upside-down, so that its fresh end is up, and arrange it into a smaller cone. Now add a fresh, full-sized cone over top of that. The removal of the nub opens the air up from underneath, and the shorter cone is now dry and hot. This is the secret to a hot, smoke-free fire that is capable of drying and burning at the same time.
Of course, you can't really see these 'cones.' It's just a conceptual way to visualize the form that I'm trying use to burn efficiently; in reality, I'm just adding or flipping one stick at a time ;)
pocket83²-Thank you so much! That was really helpful. :)
Make a pair of gloves with the old shammy and epoxy.
Dude, something is wrong with your chainsaw it sounds funny LOL.
I thought that minecraft music was playing when he started chopping the logs
Try flex glue
So this second channel is rapidly becoming your main channel then?
Isn't it supposed to be for updates or extras happening on the main channel?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was. But see the nice discussion? The low dislike number? The complete sentences? The civility?
There's still plenty of mathematical puzzles and gimmicks up my sleeve, but it's become really hard to give it away to such a nasty audience. There's just more to life than numerical success. That is, for some of us.
It's worth it if the store is closed and you happen to have leftover epoxy and scrap leather.
are the brand you buy that expensive?, i have a store where i can buy real leather gloves for 3 bucks, they are not the best leather on the palm side but they are good.
I'm starting to think that you abandoned wood in favor of epoxy as your favorite medium ;)
By the way, what happened to all the snow, Pocket?
This isn't the tundra! We only get the occasional covering until Jan/Feb. It seems to last forever after then. Today (Jan 8) is rainy, sunny, and mildly warm.
Watch you with the wood, you might benefit from a “pickaroon”, which might be a good project. Another thing that you’d probably like is a brush axe or Bill hook. Fiskars makes a nice brush axe that is very useful for reaching into tangles of stringy growth, like vines, and using the hook to grab them and yank them out to then cut them up. But the pickaroon saves your back from bending over and you can make one from an old axe head.
It might be nice to keep a pickaroon back by the log pile. I don't split on the ground there. I'll consider improvising one to see if I like it. I don't want additional tools out in the woods, though.
@@pocket83squared Grind one of your $1 ax heads into a pickaroon. That should please/provoke the ax demographic!
PVC hot glue?
10:10 The key word in fire building is PREPARATION.
Same thing, really. You can't get under if you aren't prepared.
you should have combined 3 and 2 ...
Hay do you sell your wood?
Would you sell your hey?
2:53 you set them by the WHAT?
Radiator. It's a metal thing with lots of surface area that uses (hot) water to diffuse heat. My new house doesn't have air ducts.
Haha I know what a radiator is, I was just joking about the way you said it. Where I'm from that's a ray-diator not a rah-diator lol
Yeah, I say it either way. That's EE-thur today. Maybe I-thur tomorrow. Always pot-ATE-oh, though.
This time on The Other Pocket!
We put glue on our hands on porpoise. Our hero proposes a proper patching progenation proclamation.
Will we see axe porn? Fire porn? Epoxy porn? Stay tuned for all the excitement you come to expect from Pocket 6889!
I'm not sure if it's legal to put glue on your hands while holding onto a porpoise, but I guess it's fine.
You're like McGeyver, but you only use epoxy
i watch a video on youtube and the guy turned his leather gloves inside out or outside in and rubbed them with baby oil or something and they lasted longer than usual,i think the guy fought fires out in the country side,,,a bit of usless information for yi
there's something about an open fire
Agreed.
Under
Take the end of s broomstick, slide the robber glove over the end like a finger. Insert rubber covered broomstick into glove to act as substitute human finger
I don't think leather gloves are supposed to be "reused", are they that expensive?
Quality work gloves are upwards of $30 per pair
Jack Mangan i mean are they “quality” gloves if they brake like that so quickly?
Shamwə
I fix my welding gloves with a glue gun.
olive oil--derived from squeezing olives in large presses
vegetable oil -- derived form squeezing vegetable matter in large presses
mink oil -- oh the horror!! :(
Olive oil from grapes? How about olives?
Or would you get grape oil from olives?🤣
dang, I messed that up! haha hadn't had any coffee yet apparently!! lol
@@JMKnoetze
and don't forget baby oil
It’s a human!!!!!
Duct. Tape.
Your frustration with your filming should not be shared with your audience be high be positive in the affirmative
Oh really? You must have been reading the UA-cam Studio's channel growth tips.
Of course you only want to hear happy thoughts, viewer. Of course patronizing you is good for my watch time. And it's also dishonest. If you want to sit on a cloud and be coddled by a presenter, go to a different channnel.
I'm watching a pretty fire as you burn the small branches and all I can think of is carbon sequestration and doing something useful with that heat, like making the shop warmer. All that wood was going to have been eaten by microbes and turned into carbon dioxide anyway, but do I think of that? No.
I blame my child, who is constantly harping on global warming.
This sort of mind warping nattering is one of the hazards of having children. Also, I suppose, a potential hazard of posting videos.
It's also an incredibly myopic view of the problem, isn't it? Well intentioned and well marketed, no doubt. But when we drill down on it, it's simply childish to believe that one can sustain an endless consumption on finite resources.
Ahhh, the age-old parental problem: when do you start to introduce Malthusian cynicism as a bedtime story theme? As if explaining where those dead carnival goldfish go isn't already tough enough! Good luck!
Get a tripod.
Beneath your standard of video excellence? Well, there are plenty of UA-cam channels out there that will pretend to appreciate your three-word opinion. This is not one of them.
Go ask mommy for some warm milk to help settle that tummy.