The Isolated Blurt Thread XXXIV: Like Books & Black Lives, Albums Still Matter

[Noor]

do they make hypoallergenic boot polish?

I wore a respiratory and gloves. Also did it in the other end of the house where it breathes more ( missing a storm window with unsealed drafty window)
Used Melton, it was old but still seemed good.
What I really need to do was waterproof the scuffs but no way am I spraying and I don't have any wax.

 

[Noor]

Yep, those boots.

 

[Conager]

I wore a respiratory and gloves. Also did it in the other end of the house where it breathes more ( missing a storm window with unsealed drafty window)
Used Melton, it was old but still seemed good.
What I really need to do was waterproof the scuffs but no way am I spraying and I don't have any wax.

I was going to say when I do my shoes it smells like a chemical factory in here. On the other hand, I love the smell of automotive paint.

I wondered if maybe you simply burnished them with olive oil or something. I don't know why beeswax wouldn't work.

 

[Noor]

I was going to say when I do my shoes it smells like a chemical factory in here. On the other hand, I love the smell of automotive paint.

I wondered if maybe you simply burnished them with olive oil or something. I don't know why beeswax wouldn't work.

I have coconut oil too!

 

[Conager]

I have coconut oil too!

Bet that would work, too.

I have some textile questions the last couple of days but I partially resolved one. In the past I've used fabric glue to make some minor repairs on jeans to keep them from getting worse. On a favorite pair of jeans I've got a top corner of the pocket has turned a corner shaped small tear threatening to rip through the jeans. I was going to back it with a piece of denim hell they're with fabric glue that I used to get from the dollar store and a small tube. They don't seem to carry it anymore. I went to Michaels and got something that I think is suitable. having spent about $6 on the bottle of glue it better and I'm not trying a second choice if it doesn't work.

I almost tried iron on patches because the dollar store didn't have fabric glue, but I don't like those iron on patches and it would put the fabric going the wrong way if it shows at all. Also, I don't trust the iron I picked up and partially refurbished.

I've hand-sewed such things up before but I found with rips like that they tend to fray and take the stitches with it.

Anyway the other question was I found a fedora that I like but didn't buy it because the brim was too floppy. I like that it was very lightweight but it being lightweight didn't give it enough structure to the brim. Is there a reasonable way to stiffen the brim?

 

[Noor]

Bet that would work, too.

I have some textile questions the last couple of days but I partially resolved one. In the past I've used fabric glue to make some minor repairs on jeans to keep them from getting worse. On a favorite pair of jeans I've got a top corner of the pocket has turned a corner shaped small tear threatening to rip through the jeans. I was going to back it with a piece of denim hell they're with fabric glue that I used to get from the dollar store and a small tube. They don't seem to carry it anymore. I went to Michaels and got something that I think is suitable. having spent about $6 on the bottle of glue it better and I'm not trying a second choice if it doesn't work.

I almost tried iron on patches because the dollar store didn't have fabric glue, but I don't like those iron on patches and it would put the fabric going the wrong way if it shows at all. Also, I don't trust the iron I picked up and partially refurbished.

I've hand-sewed such things up before but I found with rips like that they tend to fray and take the stitches with it.

Anyway the other question was I found a fedora that I like but didn't buy it because the brim was too floppy. I like that it was very lightweight but it being lightweight didn't give it enough structure to the brim. Is there a reasonable way to stiffen the brim?

Re: fedora, is there's trim around the brim that you could put a wire through?

Fabric glue with a backing fabric would work and then hand darn the part that is missing?r

 

[Noor]

Backing fabric should be at least twice as big as the tear and its edges should be pinked or cut on the bias, then glued down and then sesn

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Conager]

Backing fabric should be at least twice as big as the tear and its edges should be pinked or cut on the bias, then glued down and then sesn

I don't have pinking shears but I can kind of picture why you would do that so that it doesn't have a specific place to start unraveling what does it mean to cut on the bias I've heard the term but I've never known what it means. like I'm not looking at Jean fabric right now but I think one set of fibers if it were going up and down the other side of fibers go out what about a 45 degree angle? How do you figure what's the bias on that something that does not run with either of those two grains?

 

[Conager]

Re: fedora, is there's trim around the brim that you could put a wire through?

Fabric glue with a backing fabric would work and then hand darn the part that is missing?r

No trim around the brim. Adding trim is more than I could do. Possible my mom could. probably smarter to Simply find a hat that does what I wanted to do I just wondered if there was some sort of treatment that could be done. like a statching sort of a thing

 

[Saint Peter]

No trim around the brim. Adding trim is more than I could do. Possible my mom could. probably smarter to Simply find a hat that does what I wanted to do I just wondered if there was some sort of treatment that could be done. like a statching sort of a thing

Take it to a cowboy hat shop. Those guy steam and shrink and glue and fuck with all kinds of problem headware.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

Well. It's Monday. And I'm on vacation. The urge is to sit on my ass and do absolutely nothing constructive while I'm off because vacation. I feel, however, that do-nothingness should be balanced with some productivity to achieve even greater satisfaction. I should cook something.

 

[JohnnySavage]

If I ever have a son, I'm going to name him Rufus.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I really need a new truck, but I hate spending money on vehicles. My '03 Explorer only has about 95K miles on it but there's something broken in the back end that makes it waggle all over the road.

 

[yossi]

No snow! Just rain.

 

[trysail]

"The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on."





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[pink]

Fonzie's on the Today Show.

 

[trysail]

Venezuela Seizes Nearly 4 Million Toys Saying They're Overpriced

(NPR) Dolls, bicycles and playsets are among the nearly 4 million toys that have been seized by Venezuela's government. The toys will now be sold at sharp discounts, after a regulator said a large toy distributor had hoarded the toys to push prices higher.

"Boys and girls of the country will have a happy Christmas," said William Contreras, Venezuela's national superintendent for the defense of socioeconomic rights...

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The contraband:

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/12/11/sundde-2_custom-7e4f1879a8a4b0c56a7c3d6f1a493b1f0d81c28b-s800-c85.jpg
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[Pookie]

Fonzie's on the Today Show.

I've been thinking about doing another "Henry Winkler Is Not Dead Yet" thread.

 

[Pookie]

No snow! Just rain.

It's been cold enough to make the rain cold as fuck. Mother Nature doesn't want to get on my bad side right now. No, she doesn't. The cunt better sort this shit out.

 

[trysail]

It's been cold enough to make the rain cold as fuck. Mother Nature doesn't want to get on my bad side right now. No, she doesn't. The cunt better sort this shit out.

...and it's going to get a whole helluva lot colder at the end of the week.

http://graphical.weather.gov/images/conus/MinT4_conus.png



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[Aphro]

The snow is *&$#*& heavy!

Took me forever to clear the drive! Luckily, my knight in shining armour, in the form of my neighbor came over with his new snowblower and cleared that nasty "berm" of wet dirty snow at the end left by the plow. I was so grateful, I almost offered to give him a BJ, I swear.

 

[Pookie]

The snow is *&$#*& heavy!

Took me forever to clear the drive! Luckily, my knight in shining armour, in the form of my neighbor came over with his new snowblower and cleared that nasty "berm" of wet dirty snow at the end left by the plow. I was so grateful, I almost offered to give him a BJ, I swear.

Blowing the snow from his pipes would've been the perfect payback.

 

[pink]

I've been thinking about doing another "Henry Winkler Is Not Dead Yet" thread.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/fonzie_l.jpg

 

[Pookie]

Laurel is on the outs with ******** ... or whatever it is called.