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Rubber boots???

Good Lord Xanatos, go to Walmart to the bike department and get a tube patch kit! They work great on rubber boots. They bend and stretch and the glue usually holds well.

It must be really bad in Alaska this winter! Reverse circular logic is in full swing.

And you are completely correct that I should have ignored your initial post, you are simply an argument...

You did not read post number one! Go back to page one and read post #1.

"We don't need no stinkin' instructions!" does not apply here. Go back and read the instructions or you will hurt...

Sure! You can use anything you want to, mix it in any ratio you want to and apply it any way you want to.

It just won't work.

There is a concept that so many people just do not understand, and...

Another reinvention of the wheel.

Since the two part formula works well, and has for more than a century, lets add six new ingredients and another couple of steps to the process, make it more...

That is a phony video. No one that ever accomplished anything keeps their shop that clean.

That's just plain perverted!

I did a canvas coat that had leather trim collar and cuffs.

You are going to be saturation painting the item with hot wax diluted with other chemicals heated to just below the boiling point, so...

When I first started re-enactment I had to make all of my own gear and I was following the directions of people that were supposed to be the best in the "business". They had it all and had done it...

You will need to do the remelt. That is the trick to making the finished tin cloth according to Filson company.

It does not take long and you can do it with a hair dryer.

I always cringe a...

Depending on where you are in the world a wax commode ring is a fairly standard item.

In the U.S. you can obtain them at any Lowes or Home Depot in the plumbing department for about $2.

You...

Been raining here for two days.

I gave the waxed chore coat a workout.

It is still holding up so we will see if it last longer than I do. I am pretty sure they threw away a good Filson...

Try it then and see how it works.

I believe the hard paraffin is going to disappoint you and that the paraffin used by Filson is actually a form of petroleum jelly mixed with drying agents, which...

Paraffin wax turns hard and cakes up, then flakes off. I have never been able to make it work at any ratio or temperature. I have seen other people try to use it and all have been unsuccessful.
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If it has been five (5) days since the application then you have not waited the full week that was part of the recipe.

You have also not "finished" the garment with the application of heat.

Go...

According to the Filson people you use a soft brush and water only. No soap, it removes the finish.

Do not Dry clean.

Do not machine wash.

I wore the light jacket to the grocery the other day in the rain.

Only thing I noticed was that is smelled like my grand-dad's coat rack from back in the day and was in need of breaking in.

I...

Nothing wrong with exposing the tincloth to the sun. The hair dryer or heat gun just allows you to do it uniformly and at your own convenience. You also have the consideration that bees wax does...

Do not forget that after the items dry completely you will need to go over them with the hair dryer and remelt the entire item so it will completely even out. Everything will sort of glaze together....

In many areas the terms naphtha and mineral spirits are used interchangeably as "spirits of naphtha".

And the flammability of the entire mess is the reason I stressed the use of a double boiler...

I have used both types of "mineral spirits" and both work OK.

As for the application on two layers of fabric, I would turn the pants inside out and treat both sides.

Remember that when you...

This basically is the same formula as Filson wax except that the canned wax they sell for conditioning has more wax in it so it will harden like shoe polish. You rub it in instead of melting and...

As long as you don't add roofing tar, turpentine, or buttermilk to it you should be fine.

BTW, this treatment does turn the fabric a shade or two darker. I think it is the coloring they add to...

OK I am a glutton for punishment. I have been promising this for some time so here it is. I am going to post another recipe, and this one is different, complected (three ingredients) and a little...