Drying wading boots...

"Charlie Wilson" wrote in message
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"riverman" wrote:
It because I'm in a very tiny dorm room for my grad program, and these
boots
are making the room stinky.

There can be cost-saving advantages to having stinky wading boots.
Mine
live in the back of the SUV between April and November; they leave a very
distinct aroma, which deters certain daughters from borrowing the truck
(and
returning it with an empty gas tank).


Yeah, but you are assuming that I don't WANT certain daughters (not yours,
btw) from borrowing my dorm room, empty tank or not :-)

--riverman
(I'll deny I ever posted this if SWMBO ever starts reading roff.)

i'm still tryin to figure out the hair dryer... did you travel from the
congo with that thing? i mean, my wife has a hair dryer, but i've never
thought about packing it to dry my wading boots. are those hair dryer
thingamajigs good for anything else? g

jeff

riverman wrote:

"Tim J." wrote in message
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"snakefiddler" wrote...

well, if they are dumb questions, then count me among the stupid, (oh,
wait, forty already did g),

This is a prime example of trolling. . . not that's there's anything wrong

with

that.
--
TL,
Tim
(yeah, plagiarism - so what?)
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Aww, comon Tim. Let me get a few more answers before you derail the thread!!

:-(

--riverman
(BTW, I don't think that was trolling as much as it was baiting.)

"riverman" wrote in message
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It seems that the hum-ditty here in England is a bit higher than many
other
places, because its going on day 4 and my wading boots still haven't
dried.
I'm currently drying them with a hair dryer, because they were starting to
get a bit stanky. That got me to thinking about a few questions:

1) Do most folks who live in humid climes have to dry their wading boots,
or
do you just let them sit around damp until they eventually dry off
themselves?

2) IF they sit around damp, is there any component (stitching, leathers,
liners, etc) that will rot away and destroy them , or are all the
components
made of non-decomposing materials?

3) IF you dry them with a hair dryer, as I am doing, can the heat from the
nozzle just sitting inside the boot while I type on roff do any damage,
like
melt the insole, or deform some part of them, or something?

4) It seems that the hardest part to dry of all is the felt soles, as they
are thick and the centers do not get the benefit of the hair dryer. Can
the
felt soles rot or anything if they sit damp for awhile?

5) Has anyone tried any other methods to dry their shoes, like a low (low,
low, low) heat in an oven or setting them on the defroster of their car or
something?

6) If I spray my shoes with some sort of odor destroyer (since they have
developed a mildewey smell), will that put off the fish when I wade next
time?

OK, thats enough dumb questions for now. :-)

--riverman


This seem ideal
http://www.bestboots.co.uk/boot_drier.htm
loads more on google with 'boot drier'
regards
Jamaro


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"riverman" wrote:
It because I'm in a very tiny dorm room for my grad program, and these
boots
are making the room stinky.

There can be cost-saving advantages to having stinky wading boots. Mine
live in the back of the SUV between April and November; they leave a very
distinct aroma, which deters certain daughters from borrowing the truck (and
returning it with an empty gas tank).

"Jamaro" wrote in message
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"riverman" wrote in message
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SNIPPED
--riverman


This seem ideal
http://www.bestboots.co.uk/boot_drier.htm
loads more on google with 'boot drier'
regards
Jamaro

glad i wadn't high or nothin when i looked *that* one up. course, 2 hours
of typing a paper for school can have a similar effect on the brain.....
that was some weird ****
snake
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:37:04 +0200, "riverman" wrote:

It seems that the hum-ditty here in England is a bit higher than many other
places, because its going on day 4 and my wading boots still haven't dried.
I'm currently drying them with a hair dryer, because they were starting to
get a bit stanky. That got me to thinking about a few questions:

1) Do most folks who live in humid climes have to dry their wading boots, or
do you just let them sit around damp until they eventually dry off
themselves?

2) IF they sit around damp, is there any component (stitching, leathers,
liners, etc) that will rot away and destroy them , or are all the components
made of non-decomposing materials?

3) IF you dry them with a hair dryer, as I am doing, can the heat from the
nozzle just sitting inside the boot while I type on roff do any damage, like
melt the insole, or deform some part of them, or something?

4) It seems that the hardest part to dry of all is the felt soles, as they
are thick and the centers do not get the benefit of the hair dryer. Can the
felt soles rot or anything if they sit damp for awhile?

5) Has anyone tried any other methods to dry their shoes, like a low (low,
low, low) heat in an oven or setting them on the defroster of their car or
something?

6) If I spray my shoes with some sort of odor destroyer (since they have
developed a mildewey smell), will that put off the fish when I wade next
time?

OK, thats enough dumb questions for now. :-)

--riverman


Go get some heat tape - an electric wrap used to keep pipes from
freezing in the winter, looking sort of like a large version of
old-fashioned flat TV aerial wire (i.e., not coaxial). It should be
readily available in the UK and the US fairly inexpensively. Wrap it in
a thin-ish _cotton_ material, like a thin kitchen/tea towel for each
boot, and put some in each boot, fairly loosely. If you can find the
really short ones, get two, but the longer ones can be used with a
section in each boot. These don't get HOT hot - just warm enough to
keep a water pipe from freezing - and so, don't "bake" your boots. I
wouldn't dry MY boots with any heat source that I couldn't hold my hand
on/to indefinitely (IOW, a hair dryer on high, etc., and unless the temp
has dropped quite a bit in the last couple of weeks, they ain' lighting
furnaces in the England/Ireland right now), but these are YOUR boots,
so...

Another way, only economical if you can get your hands on silica gel in
bulk at a reasonable price, is take an old _cotton_ boot sock, fill it
with the silica gel (the stuff in the little "DO NOT EAT" dry-pacs in
electronics, optics, etc.), put in the damp boots, and when you need to
re-desiccate, stick into a warm oven to "dry." Clean, dry sand and
baking soda (bicarbonate of soda - "Arm and Hammer") is a
sorta-substitute.

For the smell, seal them in plastic box/bag with a coupla-few charcoal
chunks - yep, just like grilling briquettes, just not the "quick-light"
kind with "starter" embedded, just plain charcoal - and it'll absorb the
odor. I ask my SO to save her old "run" stockings and put cedar
shavings in some and a coupla-few of charcoal bricks in some, and keep
them in the non-cedar clothes closets, storage lockers/chests, etc., and
even put a charcoal one under the front seat of the cars to keep them
"odor-neutral."

TC,
R

"snakefiddler" wrote in message
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"Jamaro" wrote in message
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This seem ideal
http://www.bestboots.co.uk/boot_drier.htm
loads more on google with 'boot drier'
regards
Jamaro

glad i wadn't high or nothin when i looked *that* one up. course, 2 hours
of typing a paper for school can have a similar effect on the brain.....
that was some weird ****
snake

Wow, what a hoot THAT thing is!! You could put it by your door and scare off
Jehovah's Witnessesses!

--riverman
(imagine having some sort of tape deck playing a lot of 'AAaaarrghhh!
OOWwwaargh!' noises in the background.)

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:37:04 +0200, "riverman"
wrote:

It seems that the hum-ditty here in England is a bit higher than many other
places, because its going on day 4 and my wading boots still haven't dried.
I'm currently drying them with a hair dryer, because they were starting to
get a bit stanky. That got me to thinking about a few questions:

1) Do most folks who live in humid climes have to dry their wading boots, or
do you just let them sit around damp until they eventually dry off
themselves?

Yes.

2) IF they sit around damp, is there any component (stitching, leathers,
liners, etc) that will rot away and destroy them , or are all the components
made of non-decomposing materials?

My leather winter boots get all stiffened up. Conditioner is in order
if I ever decide to go out in deep snow again.

3) IF you dry them with a hair dryer, as I am doing, can the heat from the
nozzle just sitting inside the boot while I type on roff do any damage, like
melt the insole, or deform some part of them, or something?

It can make the leather really nasty, but some good gook rubbed in can
help afterward. I gather that mink oil is out, but there are all
sorts of leather conditioners.

4) It seems that the hardest part to dry of all is the felt soles, as they
are thick and the centers do not get the benefit of the hair dryer. Can the
felt soles rot or anything if they sit damp for awhile?

5) Has anyone tried any other methods to dry their shoes, like a low (low,
low, low) heat in an oven or setting them on the defroster of their car or
something?


The suggestion of newspapers or paper towels (Viva rules) stuffed in
them works. For felts, eh? Do dry them upside down, so if you can
stake them up some way, you and leave the soles tilted a bit off
level. Might help.
--

rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing.
Often taunted by trout.
Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

As a kid while camping all summer long, I learned to stuff them with
loosely wadded up crumpled newspapers when I got back from a day's
fishing and then by nighttime, they had absorbed most of the water in
the shoes. I've done it the same way ever since and typically have
fairly dry shoes for the next morning.... they don't get COMPLETELY dry,
but maybe this would be a start for you.

Larry

"W. D. Grey" wrote in message
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Hi Myron,

Try stuffing them with absorbent paper kitchen roll or newspaper. I
wouldn't try to force the drying with your hair dryer it could cause the
leather to crack. Our Welsh water does persist eh? :-)

We've had some serious rain overnight, the levels must be better than
last week.


Yeah, it dumped here in Plymouth, also.

I solved the boots problem, with a rather simple and obvious solution. TOO
obvious....I'm a bit embarassed.

I'm sitting there, in my dorm room, window slightly ajar to let some fresh
air in, typing at my computer with my damp, slightly odiferous boots by my
foot. I look back towards the door to my dorm room, and there, behind the
door, quietly hiding from sight, down near the floor......is.......the
heater for the room.

D'oH. I just set it on low, put the boots on it, and went to bed. Next
morning, they were dry as a bone.

--riverman