Re: a sticky question
Dan OCanna (DanOCanna@AOL.COM)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:22:09 EST
Sorry, my TCP/IP connection bombed while I was composing this message and
a partial copy was apparently auto-mailed.
This is the full text, I hope.
About any thing you want to stick to leather can be done with a good grade of
contact cement. Leather shops sell small cans with a brush type applicator
that
are good for us ocasional users.
One of my leather working friends, Gayle Robinson, says to use the glue in the
following manner.
Place the object to be glued in place and mark around it with a pencil or
other marker in a color that will not be noticeable when you are done. I used
red pencil
when gluing a leather patch to my black nylon backpack. You may want to tilt
the pencil so it draws an outline slightly smaller than the outline of your
patch.
Put a coat of glue on the patch and the full area of the marked outline and
let it dry
thoroughly. Put a second coat of glue on both surfaces, and let it dry till
it is only
slightly tacky. Nearly dry, in other words.
Position the patch in it's final resting place. YOU WILL GET ONLY ONE CHANCE.
Wherever you touch the patch is where it will stay for a LONG time. To
increase the strength of the bond you apply pressure to the items. Gayle says
to protect
them and then "pound the dickens out of 'em."
Terry Howerton Sakima Group, Inc. SCOUTER Magazine Kansas City | 
