Tips to dry out wading boots
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The Peet does work well. I saved a little (to a lot depending on prices listed) of $, and the forced air dries even the leather upper Chotas in around 4 hours.
I took the 10 year old *Chotas* to Ardessons Shoe Repair
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Tobe Hagge
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I use a peet dryer for boots but for other equipment (neoprene gloves and hood), I throw them in an electric food dehydrator set to 95F, which is the same temperature as air coming out of the peet dryer. If you happen to have a food dehydrator and are willing to throw your boots in it, I bet it would work.
I put them on the heat register in my spare room overnight. Works good.
The Peet does work well. I saved a little (to a lot depending on prices listed) of $, and the forced air dries even the leather upper Chotas in around 4 hours.
I took the 10 year old Chacos to Ardessons Shoe Repair
to have some stitching redone and they gave me a sample tin of Obenauf's LP to use on them. I also use it on my old school Alico full grain, Norwegian welt hiking bootsShoes Lakewood WA | Shoe Stores Lakewood | Shoe Repair
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That Obenauf's is good stuff!
I would be worried using a hairdryer continuously on for 4 hours. Hopefully the safety shutoff would kill it before it melted down though. I think I might put a timer in the loop and cycle it on and off.I saw a Peet dryer at a friend's place, then used one at a cabin I've stayed at and it works pretty well.
I looked around and the prices seemed a little to ridiculously high for a simple passive convection boot dryer.
I found a site like this one but only needed-wanted a 2 boot manifold.
Marvelous Man Crafts: DIY Boot Dryer - Tracy Lynn Crafts
The DIY Boot Dryer is the first in a series of Marvelous Man Crafts. Marvelous Man Crafts are crafts you can do for a man, crafts that be done by a man, or crafts you can do with a man. There is no sexist intent here, just an opportunity for me to make things for the men in my life...www.tracylynncrafts.com
So I sketched this out. I found the 2-speed dual temp hair dryer at the Goodwill for under $5 and the total for parts was under $30.
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I used a rubber T so it would have some flexibility for the size of the hair dryer nozzle.
I didn’t glue the T to the boot tubes so I can take it apart to stow in plastic wash basin I use for my boots when traveling - we've been staying at a cabin @ Hood Canal for a few days.
I used masking tape to block the heat switch so I can't move it to the high heat position. The temp at the top of the tubes is 80° F.
After rinsing it takes ~4 hours to dry these *Chota* boots, less for my Korkers.
Make sure to be careful if using any high heat source to dry your boots or putting them to close to a heater or fireplace as it could cause the glue to break down and the boots to start falling apart. Unfortunately that happened to a pair of mine in the past.
Leland Miyawaki
Steelhead
I sliced a toilet paper roll in half and put one each inside each shoe then stood them upside down on a heater register on the floor . . .
Leland
Leland
