mumszie
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My plans for this morning were to go out and do some more hunting at the soccer fields. I haven’t been doing very well out there but at least I was getting out. I got up this morning put my head outside and my plans changed. Brrrrr it was COLD outside. I mean really cold (for us in Florida). So I decided to take a look at my dive boots and see what I could do to get them ready after all I am hoping to get this air boot off my foot this coming Monday and I can get back out there and start hunting around the water. Still too cold for me to get IN the water but I could hunt the wet sand.
Anyway…. I think I’ve done a bad thing. No one ever told me how to take care of dive boots. I didn't think you had to do anything with them. The zipper is plastic so it never occurred to me to do anything with it. I mean it’s not like its going to corrode. WRONG. I haven’t looked at these boots for almost 3 months and the zipper was stuck or frozen. I had a heck of a time getting it to move. Finally I worked it free and I put some of that silicone grease I bought for the gasket on my control box on the zipper and worked that in. That is what “freed” it and now it slides pretty easy. I hope I haven’t messed it up more by using that stuff but I couldn’t think of anything else to use at the moment.
Then…. The zipper pull broke last summer and as you can guess I am not real inventive at fixing things. Without that pull on the zipper I couldn’t get it to move. I took them to a shoe repair place but they said they didn’t work on dive boots because it was hard to sew them. I didn’t want them to “sew” anything just fix the zipper pull. They said they didn’t do that.
What to do – what to do?
So I got a couple key rings and put one on each boot.
Now those worked real well – for a while. About my third time out in the water with those on there they got caught on each other as I was walking and I tripped and almost fell over in chest deep water. That little trip bent them real bad and I couldn’t use that idea. Hmmmmm
Next I took some embroidery thread. Now you guys don’t know but when you use that stuff it has a lot of threads and you peel away what you want to use to sew with. I used it whole but also tripled it by braiding it. I ran that threw the zipper and then tied it off. That has been working for me but with the salt water I knew that wasn’t going to last very long. It has already started to fray and will snap soon.
Next I thought well …. How about using monofilament fishing line? That goes in salt water. I had some 50 lb test and tried to use three pieces and sort of braided them together and made a pull with that. The problem there was tying it off. I tried using a lighter to kind of fuse it together but really made a mess of that!! So that didn’t work.
What next? I thought why couldn’t I use a plastic ties? The kind the police use in place of handcuffs. LOL OK so not those - but similar, small ones. The ones I have are 4” and really aren’t quite long enough but at the moment it’s working.
If you guys can come up with better ideas – and I’m sure some of you will - let me know.
Anyway…. I think I’ve done a bad thing. No one ever told me how to take care of dive boots. I didn't think you had to do anything with them. The zipper is plastic so it never occurred to me to do anything with it. I mean it’s not like its going to corrode. WRONG. I haven’t looked at these boots for almost 3 months and the zipper was stuck or frozen. I had a heck of a time getting it to move. Finally I worked it free and I put some of that silicone grease I bought for the gasket on my control box on the zipper and worked that in. That is what “freed” it and now it slides pretty easy. I hope I haven’t messed it up more by using that stuff but I couldn’t think of anything else to use at the moment.
Then…. The zipper pull broke last summer and as you can guess I am not real inventive at fixing things. Without that pull on the zipper I couldn’t get it to move. I took them to a shoe repair place but they said they didn’t work on dive boots because it was hard to sew them. I didn’t want them to “sew” anything just fix the zipper pull. They said they didn’t do that.
What to do – what to do?
So I got a couple key rings and put one on each boot.
Now those worked real well – for a while. About my third time out in the water with those on there they got caught on each other as I was walking and I tripped and almost fell over in chest deep water. That little trip bent them real bad and I couldn’t use that idea. Hmmmmm
Next I took some embroidery thread. Now you guys don’t know but when you use that stuff it has a lot of threads and you peel away what you want to use to sew with. I used it whole but also tripled it by braiding it. I ran that threw the zipper and then tied it off. That has been working for me but with the salt water I knew that wasn’t going to last very long. It has already started to fray and will snap soon.
Next I thought well …. How about using monofilament fishing line? That goes in salt water. I had some 50 lb test and tried to use three pieces and sort of braided them together and made a pull with that. The problem there was tying it off. I tried using a lighter to kind of fuse it together but really made a mess of that!! So that didn’t work.
What next? I thought why couldn’t I use a plastic ties? The kind the police use in place of handcuffs. LOL OK so not those - but similar, small ones. The ones I have are 4” and really aren’t quite long enough but at the moment it’s working.
If you guys can come up with better ideas – and I’m sure some of you will - let me know.
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Good luck Jim
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