repair of equiment

[jrhky36 1]

while a parchute rigger in the marine corp i learned to sew. go ahead and laugh :lol: . i save alot of money on equiment repairs. i also make alittle too, doing repairs for friends. if i can't find what i want i will make modify it to fit my needs. i did this with my shoulder pads. i sewed 2 pair of junior sized to get what i wanted (im 6'4"). i wanted old school shanny style. also sewed my gloves when they had a small tear in them. fixed several holes in my pants as well. just for an idea of how old my gear is my helment is the only peice of my gear tha is less than 4 years old.

[hunter4oz 0]

i am basically a skate guy, i like to work on, or with skates, as for rips and tears, i usually dont really bother with them, i just keep using my equipment till it wears out. i get new stuff every season or every other though so its not that big of a deal

[ktang 34]

Repalmed gloves.

Re-padded hockey pants.

Sewn up hockey pants.

Turned OPSes into shafts.

Drilled through my son's skates to get to the Tuuk Custom+ blade screws in order to replace the blades.

Sewn up skates.

Removed the broken plastic achilles tendon guard from inside CCM skates.

Cut a slot in a butt extension, put in a hybrid blade, then sanded / rasped / scraped to shape, and fibreglassed to make a hybrid blade for my shaft.

Made replacement EPP foam attachment struts for a Jofa 690 helmet.

Sewn up hockey bags, replaced zippers.

Stiffened the bottom of a wheeled hockey bag with wood struts.

Replaced the glove on a blocker.

Made a hockey equipment drying tree.

Shortened, contoured, and sewn up shin guards.

Replaced worn-out elastic / velcro on elbow and shoulder pads.

[ultraman7k 0]

going for the 'pro stock' look eh? hehe...where's that pic of holmstrom...

[A_Steeves12 0]

When a stich came out of the finger on my eagles, i stiched it up. it didnt last long tho. On my first pair of X-70's they where full of holes. i fixed them up with some white hockey tape. i actually lasted a long time.

[jjtt99 0]

I sew the holes in my socks! :D

[ladystorm3 0]

while a parchute rigger in the marine corp i learned to sew. go ahead and laugh :lol: . i save alot of money on equiment repairs. i also make alittle too, doing repairs for friends. if i can't find what i want i will make modify it to fit my needs. i did this with my shoulder pads. i sewed 2 pair of junior sized to get what i wanted (im 6'4"). i wanted old school shanny style. also sewed my gloves when they had a small tear in them. fixed several holes in my pants as well. just for an idea of how old my gear is my helment is the only peice of my gear tha is less than 4 years old.

if you wer good enough and enjoyed it you could probably open a repair compay for hockey stuff

[ktang 34]

I'm guessing that most people on this forum are gear-acquirers, instead of gear repairers. :D

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

Yeah, nowadays it's just easier to buy new gear.

I want to learn how to do all of that though.

[sogaduch 0]

i know how to take a palm out of a glove just havent learned how to sew the palm in thats about it though

[Bruin88 0]

hm....im thinking about sewing my hockey bag back together. other then that i cant really do anything....im pretty good with tape though

[jrhky36 1]

it is hard t opart with gear that you love. sometimes its easier to repair or modify it to keep it going. sometimes you don't have money or time to get new gear. besides new gear is not cheap.

JR

if you know how to sew with a needle and thread it is quite easy to do.

for anyone who needs to repair their gear i recommend using either nylon thread or 6lb test fishing line.

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

I know how to sew by hand...I screwed up my mom's machine once and never used it again.

[jrhky36 1]

i do all my repairs by hand. my wife would kill me if i used her machine to repair my hockey gear.

[ktang 34]

It's hard to use the home sewing machines on hockey equipment like bags, skates, and gloves because these machines are not big enough. I use the machine for accessible parts, but for the other parts I do it by hand. Usually while watching TV.

However, I don't just do the usual hand stitch because a cut across one stitch would let large sections unravel and separate.

Instead, I use lockstitches (2 lines of thread, one on each side, locking with each other at the centre of the seam / between the two pieces of material) (this is one type of straight stitching that sewing machines do). A cut across one stitch would only affect 5 or 6 stitches to either side.

I use a sewing machine needle to push a loop from the first line through, then I run a bight in the second line through the trailing loop of the first line, then I pull on the bight until the second line is completely through the loop, then I withdraw the needle. That's more or less what the sewing machine does, too.

I have been using carpet thread and nylon, but I never thought about using 6 lb fishing line.

[Rustybender 0]

I use waxed dental floss for all my stiching repairs. Strong stuff. Tape a heavy gauge needle to the back of the floss box and toss it in your bag for emergency repairs.

[pantherfan 0]

I had a hole in my hockey bag and heated a vice and gripped the hole and it made a seal because it was nylon and just cut away the hole bit so now it looks like a hard blue peice of plastic accross my bag

[jrhky36 1]

if you use fishing line try spiderwire or firewire. both are nylon braid and very strong.

[Lester8 11]

I've repaired my shoulder pads over and over. I've found dental floss to beat all threads. The key to using floss is using a strong knot like a bowline.

[VakarLajos 5]

A couple beauties that were dropped off for me recently.

First one: guy came off the ice after I locked up and asked if I could fix the skate. Had a good laugh and opened the shop back up to fix it.

This one: Guy comes in right before close on Sunday for a sharpen. We pointed out that the holder was cracked all along the heel, but unfortunately we would not have time to fix it today as we did not have the part. We advised him not to skate on it. We bid him adieu and close up, telling him we can keep them or he can call back the next day as we might have the holder in our Brooklyn location. I come in Monday and the front office shows me this:

[kovalchuk71 212]

HAHA. Thats great. It skates great and makes a great on ice weapon!

[furlanitalia 1]

I'm blown away that anyone would do that.

[Bucky25 0]

Holy...balls. You know, maybe he also has trouble ripping tape...could just file them to a point and voila, instant tape cutter.

I'm acutally surprised some of these genes are still in the pool, you'd think Darwin would've nabbed their ass by now.

[VakarLajos 5]

it's surprisingly sturdy.....insanely dangerous, but sturdy. I'm going to ask the hockey director tonight if the ref let him play. If so, then that's another incredible part to the story.

[shotty 7]

Holy...balls.

indeed.

thats ridiculous