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mudcow007
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PostPosted: 13:35 - 16 Sep 2015    Post subject: reproofing a wax jacket? Reply with quote

Anyone ever reproofed a Barbour?

i've got a Bedale jacket that i use to wear to walk the dog an its looking a bit faded (jacket not the dog)

already bought the tin of thornproof wax, but heard horror stories of people putting too much on etc

anyone ever done it?
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PostPosted: 13:43 - 16 Sep 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/301111655349?clk_rvr_id=897475146839&item=301111655349&l

You'd think it would do it a couple of times, and looks easier than something gloopy in a tin.
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PostPosted: 13:52 - 16 Sep 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same stuff you reproof tents with?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fabsil-Gold-Waterproofer-200ml-Aerosol-Spray-On-Tents-Coats-ALL-FABRICS-/201380363948
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PostPosted: 14:24 - 16 Sep 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

The stuff ive bought (women was fit in the shop an couldn't refuse)

is good thornproof dressing?

you have to heat it up in a pan of water, then literally slap it on an rub it into the jacket. Too much an the jacket goes rock hard Shocked

I phone Barbour over them reproofing ti an they quoted 6 - 8 weeks Sad

the dogs legs would have fallen off by then
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PostPosted: 14:53 - 16 Sep 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

mudcow007 wrote:
you have to heat it up in a pan of water

If it's anything like dubbin, use a hair dryer or heat gun, pre-heat the jacket then dab it on and spread it around with a cloth or brush while continuing to apply heat.


mudcow007 wrote:
Too much an the jacket goes rock hard Shocked

Well, there is that. I have a wax hardened 1/4" leather cuirass that would stop a charging rhino, so go a bit easy.
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PostPosted: 19:02 - 16 Sep 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have done it many years ago and it brought all the muck out of the coat to the surface. my mates Mrs got too close in the pub and it got all over her white blouse in the tits area Laughing
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PostPosted: 19:23 - 16 Sep 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

mudcow007 wrote:
The stuff ive bought (women was fit in the shop an couldn't refuse)


Did you buy enough or will it need several trips back to the shop? (you perv) Shifty

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PostPosted: 19:26 - 16 Sep 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Barbour sell a wax in a tin or in an aerosol.
If the jacket's only for tormenting the dog then the cheaper option Ozzie stuff would do me

Naw, Yeah, All yeh gorra do Mate...
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PostPosted: 20:01 - 16 Sep 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

was gonna 'ave a go tonight but chickened out last minute.

Barbour did say the wax stuff stinks so ideally do it outside...pffft its freezing out there

So im holding fire til the mrs goes out.....watch this space
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PostPosted: 23:20 - 17 Sep 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I first started to ride motorbikes 40 years ago the first bike jacket I used was a Barbour.It did need reproofing,so I went to the local Milletts store and bought a tin of the genuine wax.On the tin it did say to warm the item of clothing first and to spread the wax thinly.After each coating it was recommended to hang the item in a warm environment so that it would melt into the seams.

Unfortunately,my mum thought that it was dirty,so she washed it in her twin tub.Stupid woman.It completely ruined the jacket and no amount of rewaxing ever made it as waterproof as it had been before Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: 23:25 - 17 Sep 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to do the job in an industrial boiler house.
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