How to dry your drygloves.

Ok, let;s hear it, how do you go about getting those blue, lined drygloves
to dry. Someone suggested a hair dryer, another suggested kitty litter. What
is your favorite method? I have even considered nuking them in the
microwave....

--

Rudy Benner

When the power of love
overcomes the love of power
the world will know peace.
-- Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)

Turn them inside out....a pain to do, but will dry within a few hours.

"Alter_Ego" <bogus@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, let;s hear it, how do you go about getting those blue, lined drygloves
> to dry. Someone suggested a hair dryer, another suggested kitty litter.
What
> is your favorite method? I have even considered nuking them in the
> microwave....
>
> --
>
> Rudy Benner
>
> When the power of love
> overcomes the love of power
> the world will know peace.
> -- Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
>
>

Alter_Ego wrote:
>
> Ok, let;s hear it, how do you go about getting those blue, lined drygloves
> to dry. Someone suggested a hair dryer, another suggested kitty litter. What
> is your favorite method? I have even considered nuking them in the
> microwave....

The microwave will just deteriorate them and make them hot & humid. The
best way to dry any container with restricted access is to propel air
ACROSS the top.

I hang my dainty underthings from a hanger with plastic clips and shoot
a breeze over the top.

When I'm home I use the incredibly handy double squirrel cage blower
that I found at American Science and Surplus (GOOGLE) with a timer on it
from Radio Shack.

Otherwise, why not a pair of no-heat hair dryers scavenged from the
Salvation Army store?

Turning them inside out is the lowest cost idea, but it can put a
physical strain on the connection rings.

Skip the kitty litter, next thing you know, Fluffy will be squatting on
them :(

"Alter_Ego" <bogus@mail.com> wrote in message news:<vg3tc4lsmcoue5@corp.supernews.com>...
> Ok, let;s hear it, how do you go about getting those blue, lined drygloves
> to dry. Someone suggested a hair dryer, another suggested kitty litter. What
> is your favorite method? I have even considered nuking them in the
> microwave....

Turn them inside out, to make the job go quickly I use the handle from
a wooden spoon.

David

In article <d908f31.0307032155.22f22188@posting.google.com> , David K
<dlkertz@msn.com> wrote:

€ > Ok, let;s hear it, how do you go about getting those blue, lined drygloves
€ > to dry. Someone suggested a hair dryer, another suggested kitty litter. What
€ > is your favorite method? I have even considered nuking them in the
€ > microwave....
€
€ Turn them inside out, to make the job go quickly I use the handle from
€ a wooden spoon.

I built a glove-dryer.

Piece of cake, the hard part is the hair dryer, which takes a trip to
the store.

--
"Let's roll!"
-Todd Beamer, aboard United Airlines flight 93, September 11, 2001

Yes, a wooden spoon, to get those pesky fingers to turn inside out. Great
idea. Thanks David.

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> "Alter_Ego" <bogus@mail.com> wrote in message
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> > Ok, let;s hear it, how do you go about getting those blue, lined
drygloves
> > to dry. Someone suggested a hair dryer, another suggested kitty litter.
What
> > is your favorite method? I have even considered nuking them in the
> > microwave....
>
> Turn them inside out, to make the job go quickly I use the handle from
> a wooden spoon.
>
> David

I use a hanger that has the clips on it. Like what shorts or women's dresses
are sold with. I clip to the edge of the glove material from the inside (the
rings that is) so they hang inverted and very open. I tried the inside out
part but that suffers from all the extra flexing. And around here many folks
put light covers of aqua-seal over the finger tips due to the zebra mussels
cutting things to shreds.

Hanging the gloves near a vent helps a lot. And we also found for the house
having a dehumidifier running in the room helps a lot too. By morning things
are fine.

-ken c

"Alter_Ego" <bogus@mail.com> wrote in message news:<vgaomoa9udf9d0@corp.supernews.com>...
> Yes, a wooden spoon, to get those pesky fingers to turn inside out. Great
> idea. Thanks David.

I wish I could claim it as an original idea but I can't, I learned
from someone else on this list.

I've also been told that when your glove liners start to smell bad a
little liquid detergent & fresh water will have them smelling like new
again. My gloves don't smell bad so I haven't tried this yet.

David K

It's much easier if you get the gloves that have the seperate liners. That
also obviates the need for tubing or something like that to allow air flow;
just put the liners on *under* the wrist seal.

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> "Alter_Ego" <bogus@mail.com> wrote in message
news:<vg3tc4lsmcoue5@corp.supernews.com>...
> > Ok, let;s hear it, how do you go about getting those blue, lined
drygloves
> > to dry. Someone suggested a hair dryer, another suggested kitty litter.
What
> > is your favorite method? I have even considered nuking them in the
> > microwave....
>
> Turn them inside out, to make the job go quickly I use the handle from
> a wooden spoon.
>
> David

Jammer Six <jammer@invalid.oz.net> wrote in message news:<be38dm$brl$7@216.39.146.232>...
> In article <d908f31.0307032155.22f22188@posting.google.com> , David K
> <dlkertz@msn.com> wrote:
>
> ? > Ok, let;s hear it, how do you go about getting those blue, lined drygloves
> ? > to dry. Someone suggested a hair dryer, another suggested kitty litter. What
> ? > is your favorite method? I have even considered nuking them in the
> ? > microwave....
> ?
> ? Turn them inside out, to make the job go quickly I use the handle from
> ? a wooden spoon.
>
> I built a glove-dryer.
>
> Piece of cake, the hard part is the hair dryer, which takes a trip to
> the store.


I can almost envision it. All you'd need would be a length of PVC, a
couple of elbows, a T, duct tape and the hair dryer. I may have to
make myself one of these.


Blessings and safe diving,
Tom
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