Cleaning the Boots

**slofox** · 24th July 2009, 08:41

In a rare fit of enthusiasm, I actually cleaned the boots on Wednesday night. Got the old snoseal out and had a go at them while the room was all toasty from the fire. Left them to soak 24 hours and then buffed em up last night when the room was again toasty. Came up pretty well really...maybe I oughta get offn my arse more often...

Definitely works better when the room is real hot I would hafta say...

**vifferman** · 24th July 2009, 08:56

Yeah, I did mine the other day, when I Nikwaxed the jacket'n'gloves.
Although I would have to say, you couldn't call it cleaning, as I left the road spooge and brake dust on (strangely, only the right boot had that on), and applied SnoSeal over the top, sealing it in. (If there was sno on the boots, I guess that would've been more betterer to seal in...)
I did my boots outside (because they were grubby), so it was coldish. I ~~remdeied remdiedide~~ fixed that by using the hot air gun to melt the SnoSeal into the leather after I'd given them a good coating, then buffed them up.

**slofox** · 24th July 2009, 10:31

Originally Posted by vifferman

Although I would have to say, you couldn't call it cleaning, as I left the road spooge and brake dust on

Tch tch....I would never do that...

. I rubbed mine with a rag first. At least it took the surface coating of road spooge off...

**duckonin** · 24th July 2009, 10:40

yep always nice to have clean boots,helps maketh the man..

**crazyhorse** · 24th July 2009, 11:14

Originally Posted by slofox

In a rare fit of enthusiasm, I actually cleaned the boots on Wednesday night. Got the old snoseal out and had a go at them while the room was all toasty from the fire. Left them to soak 24 hours and then buffed em up last night when the room was again toasty. Came up pretty well really...maybe I oughta get offn my arse more often...

Definitely works better when the room is real hot I would hafta say...

You sound bored!

**one fast tl1ooo** · 24th July 2009, 11:18

give em to your gf to clean

**Ollie.T** · 24th July 2009, 11:20

"I fixed that by using the hot air gun to melt the SnoSeal into the leather after I'd given them a good coating"

Generally not a good idea to heat up boots like that, it affects the glue holding the soles on. Well it does on tramping boots anyway, I have seen a fair few pairs of boots that have fallen apart after people try to dry them too close to the fire...

**slofox** · 24th July 2009, 11:22

Originally Posted by one fast tl1ooo

give em to your gf to clean

Well..I thought about that but when I asked her she just said "Fuck off!!!"

**vifferman** · 24th July 2009, 11:34

Originally Posted by Ollie.T

"I fixed that by using the hot air gun to melt the SnoSeal into the leather after I'd given them a good coating"

Generally not a good idea to heat up boots like that, it affects the glue holding the soles on.

Unlike a fire, a hot air gun has a thermostat, so you can control how much heat you apply. Cunning, huh? So I kept the heat to just enough to melt the Bee Zwacks, which is actually 5% of NotVeryMuchAtAll.
Do you really think I'd deliberately sabotage a $450 pair of boots?

**crazyhorse** · 24th July 2009, 12:24

Originally Posted by slofox

Well..I thought about that but when I asked her she just said "Fuck off!!!"

Yah - go girl!!!!!

**p.dath** · 24th July 2009, 14:26

Somehow I misread the title of this thread to "Cleaning the boobs". I'm very dissapointed.

**slofox** · 24th July 2009, 14:34

Originally Posted by p.dath

Somehow I misread the title of this thread to "Cleaning the boobs". I'm very dissapointed.

Tell ya what, next time I get to do that I'll post up again ok?

**YellowDog** · 24th July 2009, 14:34

Boobs that need cleaning are best avoided.

Bike boots that need cleaning always get a severe brush off to remove all of the crap.

Buff up really nicely once they are completely dry.