Hi Luke,

I think I suggested the following in Another Forum (?)... was it you?

Anyway, grab a spray bottle of Febreez from the supermarket. It's a
bit hard to find lately but Coles and Woolies usually stock in the
cleaners/washing aisle.

This is purely a fabric odour masking agent. ... it does not clean,
nor disinfect, but is technically superior at masking smells. The
natty lil molecules latch onto the bad dudes and lock 'em up.

TRY TO REMOVE THE SMELL FIRST:-
Maybe start with a small bucket of vinegar/warm water and SOAK the
bastards over night. Yes, get that slutty smelly leather sopping WET!

Then rinse a few times, roll in newspaper to remove moisture. Then
wrap in more newspaper or towels and leave in dry shady spot. DO NOT
TURN INSIDE OUT.

It'll take a few days to dry, but no harm done. Once dry, get some
leather dressing on them (dont be bashful with the lube, they'll love
it... remember (quote)"Whatdya mean there's no time for lube!!??
THERE'S ALWAYS TIME FOR LUBE!"


By this time, maybe the febreez won;t be needed. I would have thought
a good soakin overnight should fix anything.

What the *&^*%^% did you do to these gloves to get them so smelly to
start with? Do you have leprosy of the hands or pus-filled
carbunkles ? Seek professional help :-) venienti occurrite morbo

alx


--- In bikers_anon@..., Luke Burton <luke@b...> wrote:
>
> I have a pair of lovely Teknik gloves. They smell like something
that
> crawled out of a septic pit somewhere in Bombay.
>
> I'm afraid to wear them, since the last time I shook someone's hand
> after wearing these gloves the poor sod contracted SARS, leprosy
and
> the Plague, which dropped them dead on the spot.
>
> The other day they marched into the living room under their own
power,
> stared me straight in the eye and said "A solution must be found
for
> cleaning us."
>
> I tried making a light mixture of Detol + water in a spray bottle
and
> attacking them with that, but that didn't help. I attacked them
with a
> 'disinfecting spray' I found at the supermarket, but I realised too
> late it was lavender scented. So now I have gloves that smell like
> lavender, detol and diarrhea in equal proportions.
>
> I haven't been able to find these gloves again, and I really like
them
> (apart from the smell). Before I turf them, does anyone have a
magic
> solution for making them clean once more? I thought about getting
> Father Paddy down the road to exorcise them, but the gloves refuse
to
> visit the church.
>
> Regards,
>
> Luke.
>
> --
> Luke Burton.
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>
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