Am I Expecting To Much From Acrylic Resolene?

[cleanview]

The holster wont typically rub off on my white under shirts but I sweat profusely and that changes things. Should my acrylic resolene stop this?

I mix it 50/50 with water with two coats.

Thanks

[Shooter McGavin]

Use better dye and/or buff it better before sealing?

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Should I be able to soak a white t shirt from sweating and see no mark from holster

[Dwight]

Should I be able to soak a white t shirt from sweating and see no mark from holster

Yes, . . . absolutely, . . . provided: a) you did as Shooter McGavin suggested, . . . buffed all the loose dye off the project first, . . . and you really do have to put some muscle into getting it out or off the flesh side, . . . and you put on a proper coat or two of Resolene.

I've read where folks just "dunk" it in Resolene, . . . shake it, . . . and consider it done. Simply stated, that has never worked for me, . . . I have to take a bristle brush and paint it on like I'm painting the holster. Then I brush it around, up, down, left, right, obliques each way, . . . beginning with a bit of a lather created by the brushing and adding of product, . . . and ending with all the little lather bubbles broken by my constant brushing.

Once the lather is obtained, . . . don't add product, . . . just brush.

When I use this technique, . . . mine don't bleed.

May God bless,

Dwight

Edited August 11, 2014 by Dwight

[Feraud]

Agreed with Dwight. Proper buffing of the dye coat beforehand and resolene application should create a bleed proof seal.

[cleanview]

I pretty much do the application like dwight described.

I have always buffed with an attachment on a drill and thought it had done a good job.

I will be sealing one tonight and will buff to high heaven and see how she goes.

thanks

[cleanview]

dwight on another thread you mentioned waiting 24 hrs. Is that time frame applicable here as well and do you wait 24 hrs in between coats?

the other thread was in reference to stitching white thread so might be different.

[Dwight]

dwight on another thread you mentioned waiting 24 hrs. Is that time frame applicable here as well and do you wait 24 hrs in between coats?

the other thread was in reference to stitching white thread so might be different.

On regular use, . . . unless it is really humid, . . . Resolene coated items can usually be handled in 8 hours with no ill effects.

For white stitching, . . . I let it go till 24.

As a side note, . . . it has been quite some time since I got an order for a black belt with white stitching. Got one yesterday, . . . came home and found this conversation. Sometimes the events of this life somehow seem too characteristically interwoven.

May God bless,

Dwight

[cleanview]

thank you

[Hi Im Joe]

As a side note, . . . it has been quite some time since I got an order for a black belt with white stitching. Got one yesterday, . . . came home and found this conversation. Sometimes the events of this life somehow seem too characteristically interwoven.

May God bless,

Dwight

Man....isn't that the truth!