Lube For Sewing Biothane

[THein]

I realize this isn't leather but in my world I must repair/ resolve other people's mistakes. The local farm/ ranch store called yesterday. They ordered in and sold some biothane harness to a customer. Guess what? something's not right. Better call Terry. Cutting to the chase, I'm not keen on altering, repairing, or building anything from biothane but in my world I can't turn down much. Question is, from past experience, I know that I need some luibe to get the thread to feed and pull the lockstitch through the material. Bought a small ( finger nail polish size ) bottle of thread lube at the sewing store for $3.00. I don't think it's going to last through four tug straps. I'm wondering if anybody has worked with this evil stuff and if they have tried something like vegatable oil?

[wvcraftsman]

I realize this isn't leather but in my world I must repair/ resolve other people's mistakes. The local farm/ ranch store called yesterday. They ordered in and sold some biothane harness to a customer. Guess what? something's not right. Better call Terry. Cutting to the chase, I'm not keen on altering, repairing, or building anything from biothane but in my world I can't turn down much. Question is, from past experience, I know that I need some luibe to get the thread to feed and pull the lockstitch through the material. Bought a small ( finger nail polish size ) bottle of thread lube at the sewing store for $3.00. I don't think it's going to last through four tug straps. I'm wondering if anybody has worked with this evil stuff and if they have tried something like vegatable oil?

I haven't worked with it YET. I have a biothane harness that is need of some repair soon, so I'm going to keep an eye on this thread. One suggestion is to give a call to Weaver Leather or to the Biothane company and see if they have any suggestions.

[Art]

Use Silicone thread lube from Clearco. Works great. You buy it in 5 gallon (or more) jugs, it is not terribly expensive. The Silicone product is what you want.

http://www.clearcoproducts.com/sewing_thread_lubricants.html

I think Ed Santoro may have some he can sell you for you to try.

Art

I realize this isn't leather but in my world I must repair/ resolve other people's mistakes. The local farm/ ranch store called yesterday. They ordered in and sold some biothane harness to a customer. Guess what? something's not right. Better call Terry. Cutting to the chase, I'm not keen on altering, repairing, or building anything from biothane but in my world I can't turn down much. Question is, from past experience, I know that I need some luibe to get the thread to feed and pull the lockstitch through the material. Bought a small ( finger nail polish size ) bottle of thread lube at the sewing store for $3.00. I don't think it's going to last through four tug straps. I'm wondering if anybody has worked with this evil stuff and if they have tried something like vegatable oil?

[tonyc1]

I don't know about Biothane but if it's anything like coated PVC webbing, I've sewn miles of it and I'm not exaggerating. I use it nearly every day and I've never, ever had to use lube, even doing repairs and often 3-4 layers thick. I use a PLB using my 205 and have no problems at all.

Tony.

[dirtclod]

I have used Lexol conditioner in the wax pot in a pinch and it worked fine. I'm guessing liquid saddle soap would work ok to. Plus their something you probley already have in your shop.

[THein]

OK, so I started resizing the tugs on this harness. Tried different ways of lubeing the thread. Olive oil, no good. My wife was going to town so I called the auto parts store and they sent home some silicone spray, works sort of ok. While I was having a panic attack, I searched the net and found this. www.bioplastics.us/sewing-tips/biothane-sewing-tips.html