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JUST HOW GOOD IS TEAR MENDER REVIEW BY JIM BAUDO |
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MENDER HAS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS. I THINK I HAVE BEEN USING IT FOR OVER 20
YEARS. THE BOTTLE AT THE LEFT IS THE OLD LABEL. NOW IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS
TEAR MENDER HAS STARTED A NEW AD CAMPAIGN AND THAT'S WHY I AM DOING THIS REVIEW
BECAUSE SO MANY OF YOU ASKED FOR IT. I WAS ALWAYS ABLE TO FIND TEAR MENDER
AT THE FARM SUPPLY STORES. TEAR MENDER WAS GREAT FOR REPAIRING GLOVES,
TEARS MADE BY BARB WIRE TO TROUSERS AND SHIRTS, TARPS AND ALL KINDS OF
STUFF AROUND THE FARM. WELL I FIGURED IF IT WOULD TAKE THE ROUGH TREATMENT
THAT THE FARMERS GAVE IT THAT PRODUCTS USED BY US CITY PEOPLE COULD BE REPAIRED
AND PROBABLY BE BETTER THAN NEW, AND LAST FOREVER.
FOR 30 YEARS I SOLD BOATS AND THE BOAT SEATS WOULD ALLOW WATER TO SEEP IN THE SEWN TREAD AREA OF THE SEAT. I FOUND THAT BY APPLING TEAR MENDER TO THE STITCHED AREA THAT IT WOULD SOAK INTO THE TREAD CREATING A WATER TIGHT SEAL THAT PREVENTED MOISTURE FROM ENTERING THE SEAT INTERIOR AND THE SEATS TREATED THIS WAY WOULD NOT START TO ROT FROM MILDEW AND GET A FUNGUS BUILDUP IN THE SEATS. THE TREADS WOULD HAVE MANY YEARS OF EXTENDED LIFE BEFORE THEY WOULD START TO WEAKEN AND BREAK AND THE SEAT WOULD GIVE WAY AT THE SEAM AREA. SOME WHERE AROUND 1995 OR 96 I APPROACHED SOME OF THE BOAT MANUFACTURES TO TREAT THE SEATS BEFORE SHIPPING TO THE DEALERS. THEIR RESPONSE WAS IT WAS TO COSTLY, OR IT WOULD ADD ADDITIONAL STEPS IN PRODUCTION TIME. SOME EVEN COMMENTED, ( WE DON'T WANT THE SEATS TO LAST FOREVER. ) |
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 PHOTO HP 850 CAMERA BY JIM BAUDO THIS STUFF IMPROVED THE STRENGTH OF THE MATERIAL AND SEALED OUT THE MOISTURE FROM ENTERING AT THE STITCHED AREA. |
THE PHOTO AT THE LEFT IS A SAMPLE I STILL HAVE OF THE BOAT SEAT MATERIAL TREATED WITH TEAR MENDER TO THE INSIDE OF THE SEAT MATERIAL. THIS I DISCOVERED SEALED THE STITCHING, IT BONDED TO THE HEAT FUSED CLOTH BACKING INCREASING THE STRENGTH OF THE SEAT MATERIAL AT THE STITCHED AREA, THAT WOULD EXTEND THE USABLE LIFE OF THE SEATS MANY, MORE YEARS. | ||||||||||||
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