Im looking to DIY sliding gloves because the only shop near me sells them for 100 dollars. I dont think so.
Anyway, i looked at youtube relentlessly an i like the approach of partly mellting plastic from a cutting board and pressing it into a glove. But i have the tingling sensation that doing so will result in the plastic coming off mid-slide resultiong in my hand being smeared into the concrete.
Has anyone had experience making gloves like this... or infactin any other way. And if not, does anyone live in melbourne and know of a good skate shop?
That's what I did and I got some pretty solid results.
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If you're starting out you don't need to worry about replaceable pucks. You wont go through them very fast. I use corian, I think works fine and it's free(corian samples can be found in the kitchen section of home depot), and comes in convenient shapes. Just buy some work gloves (preferably leather palms with a breathable back), get some rubber cement (I like shoe goo), combine em. A good palm puck is important, you may or may not like them on your fingers. If you want them on your finers you'll probably have to have ninja turtle hands and put two fingers to a puck. It actually isn't uncomfortable at all just grabbing your board with puck fingers isn't as convenient.
Just put some rubber cement between the two things ya want stuck, let it sit for a day and then take em out and ROCK EM. If they get too hot it'll make the cement more pliable so they're best not left in the car during summer or hot days. Just give it a shot. Attach corian to a glove, that's essentially the most important part.
Garden gloves, work gloves, anything that is work sturdy. Get corian, or even buy slide pucks online. Velvet slide pucks for example. get industrial velcro from home depot, it's like 4 bucks for four sets of circle velcro. Apply gorilla glue to adhesive side of velcro, and stick to palm. I prefer my pucks closer to the heel/bottom of my palm, and apply finger pucks if you so choose. Then apply gorilla glue to the other piece of velcro once again on the adhesive side, and stick to corian/puck. When you do that, velcro the two pieces together attaching the puck to hand. Sit something heavy on top of glove, and allow to dry for 24 hours, or overnight. I only put gorilla glue on the adhesive side of the velcro to ensure the pucks would stick. It may not be necessary, I didn't try without it. Hope this helped.
My Stanley gloves with two pieces of corian attached to each glove did me well for quite a while, but the corian pucks felt to small for my palm on my giant hand so I bought loaded slide gloves cause I got them for under fourty bucks.
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actually, sorry, i have another question. Better do it here than start another thread for such a silly question.
Ive got no blow torch to melt the plastic. Any suggestions.
i was thinking to use a small can with a small wood fire in it and hold out the puck with tongs over the flame, then press it into a glove. would this work, coz i thoought th melted plastic would drip, and if doesnt work, how else can i do it without spending money on a blow torch?
even if the board were to come off, you would feel it slip and thats what tough working/gardening gloves are for! they can take a few slides before holes start appearing. you'll be fine..
oh and to melt the plastic, a heat gun works very well. i suggest getting some breathing apparatus, that sh*t stinks when its melting
gorilla glue industrial velcro to some leather gloves or gardening gloves. then velcro to the puck. and you done.
Yeah buddy. Don't waste time melting your puck to your glove. All that does is limit the life of your glove. Also, when you use velcro, you can turn your pucks and switch them out so they wear evenly. Gorilla glue ftw.
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ok, my final decision is to glue velcro on the glove and the puck, and then velcro them together. However, i dont know what glue to use to attacht the velcro to the glove or the pucks. THe so called "gorilla glue" does not exist (as far as i know) in australia, at least not as that brand name, so what shouuld i use. I asked friends abou using epoxy, but some say that it may crack under pressure. I think it would work, but i have doubts.
ok, my final decision is to glue velcro on the glove and the puck, and then velcro them together. However, i dont know what glue to use to attacht the velcro to the glove or the pucks. THe so called "gorilla glue" does not exist (as far as i know) in australia, at least not as that brand name, so what shouuld i use. I asked friends abou using epoxy, but some say that it may crack under pressure. I think it would work, but i have doubts.
suggestions? thanks
Gorilla Glue sucks IMHO. I have yet found a use for it. Use glue plus needle and thread to attach the velcro to the glove. When you attach the velcro to the back of the puck, rough up that side with some sand paper and use 5 minute epoxy. If you still feel unsafe, experiment with glue first. I like epoxy. It holds my pucks to my gloves directly.
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what works better than glue is if you stich the velcro to your glove...it may take a bit longer but the final result i find works better
Very true, but after like 2 hours of attempting to stitch the velcro and many stabbings with the needle... i found its not worth it. the gorilla glue works great for me.
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Very true, but after like 2 hours of attempting to stitch the velcro and many stabbings with the needle... i found its not worth it. the gorilla glue works great for me.
I have been hand sewing for years. I could do it in 15-20 minutes (both gloves). I don't buy new clothes when I tear them up. Repairs are a must for me.
I do NOT suggest Gorilla Glue. It's effervescent and a polyurethane based aliphatic glue, mainly used for wood, but not board building. It would work, but you might as well be using Elmer's Glue.
Epoxy or Shoe Goop.
NOTE: Rough up the puck so the adhesives have a better foundation to stick too.
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For my homemade gloves I went to my local fabric / hobby and craft store and bought the toughest adhesive velcro I could find. The adhesive sticks very well to the glove, but not so well to my homemade pucks. So I bought some jb weld quick (1000x better than gorilla glue) and glued the velcro to the pucks. Works like a charm and I can shift my chagne my pucks whenever I need to.
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