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Utah Bob #35998

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Got some leather laces for my jump boots some time ago. Just found them in a drawer this morning.

Both broke as I was putting them on .My wife says I don’t know my own strength. Not likely.
I say the damn Chinese cows are defective. :angry:

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1 hour ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

Got some leather laces for my jump boots some time ago. Just found them in a drawer this morning.

Both broke as I was putting them on .My wife says I don’t know my own strength. Not likely.
I say the damn Chinese cows are defective. :angry:

Apparently so are their BATS!

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43 minutes ago, Marshal Hangtree said:

Chinese laces have to be laced up left to right, not right to left as we do it.

I thought those were Israeli laces. :P

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We laced our combat boots straight across rather than criss cross as it was easier to cut the laces when taking the boot of,f when the wearer had a lower leg injury.

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I thought that paracord was too heavy, so I pulled the seven(?) strands of nylon cord out of them, then, of course, melted the ends of the cord “shell” and formed the melted nylon into points.so’s they’d go through the boots’ eyelets.  As I recall, unmodified paracord has a 750# tensile strength(?) and the empty paracord shell was very tough and never broke in use as bootlaces.  

 

Cat Brules

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3 hours ago, Cat Brules said:

unmodified paracord has a 750# tensile strength(?)

550, which is why so many people call it 550 cord.

 

Seven threads, at 70 pounds strength each (490 pounds), and the outer shell was another 60 pounds.

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Well, Bob. China is under water right now so wet leather laces wouldnt be very strong.

 

Imis  vote for river sandals, the kind you wear rafting, not that China drowns

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1 hour ago, Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 said:

Brown Boot Army?  I thought that was before your time, Bob. 

Yes. These are modern copies. Very comfortable. And the newly approved army uniform will be brown boots. 

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23 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

Got some leather laces ...Chinese cows are defective. :angry:

 

Cow?  How about cat leather...

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55 minutes ago, Matthew Duncan said:

 

Cow?  How about cat leather...

I don’t know how you get a 72” lace out of an 18” cat. :lol:

 

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9 hours ago, Alpo said:

550, which is why so many people call it 550 cord.

 

Seven threads, at 70 pounds strength each (490 pounds), and the outer shell was another 60 pounds.


Alpo,

Thanks for correcting and clarifying my reply, above.

 

Cat Brules

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21 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

I don’t know how you get a 72” lace out of an 18” cat. :lol:

 

You catch the end as it comes out the back, and tie that to the shower curtain rod in the bathroom. Then just let him hang there. His weight will get the rest of the 72 inches out. Eventually.

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