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Article #14Re: Treating Nubuck + Goretex boots.
From: Alan Dicey
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:19
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:19
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anthony wrote: > I've owned two pairs of gortex boots with complete leather exteriors. > Both of them I've used NIKWAX on for the last 2 years. The a few months ago > a friend who has a farm told me I was daft paying all that money for > something so hard to apply and expensive and I should use some duck fat that > he had extracted from his roast duck dinners. He reckoned that was just > fine on his boots which were gortex/leather. I declined the offer but > then brought a cheap tin of Dubin. Cheap, easy to apply and the boots are > 100% waterproof with no noticable affect on breathablility. > In which case your boots must have been clogged up already. Dubbin is a wax/oil/tallow mixture which softens, conditions and waterproofs leather by soaking in and filling the microscopic holes in the *leather* so that water can't get through. It is certainly 100% non-breathable, and will permanently ruin a Gore-Tex membrane.
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