Saving lames with dead spots

[hpfencing]

Ok I am a club owner and coach and recently many of our clubs lames are starting to fail conductivity test.

What can I do to bring them back to life or shoudl I just buy more and more on?

[keith]

Ok I am a club owner and coach and recently many of our clubs lames are starting to fail conductivity test.

What can I do to bring them back to life or shoudl I just buy more and more on?

separate the fronts from the backs then sew two 'backs' together to make one good lame.

Or sacrifice one to repair many.

[Chafunkta]

If there was a way to save them the Statue of Liberty wouldn't be green anymore.

Count your losses for the ones you have. Wash the new lames you buy more often to prevent deadening.

[yeoldearmourer]

You can always send them to me to repair as many has possible. We have save alot of lames for people. www.yeoldearmourer.com We have experience seamstress on staff

[I live to FENCE]

Right, my club used to do this a coupla times. We mix sodium bicarbonate with water to form a paste, then we apply the paste onto the dead spot. Allow to dry. If you have several lames, get a couple of clubmates and do it together... It's not that hard. And yes, the lames passed.

[Robert Smith]

For club use - can't attest to tournament use, but maybe others can - you can buy some conductive thread from me. We've been using this for around four years now and, while I no longer have access to the ones we did four years ago, I know that lames we treated up to two years ago are still going strong.

We've taken really, really dead lames and brought them back to a state where there are no dead spots; for localized areas, it's often enough just to run a few traces through them, and for whole panels you can lay down a denser pattern. My current lame was dead over most of the front panel and large parts of the back. It now has rows of zigzag stitching at ~1 cm intervals over the dead space and no dead spots. I think that probably took about a quarter to half an 80-yard spool, and at $6 a spool it's way cheaper than patching.

This can be a little time-consuming, particularly for a big bunch of lames. But for the dying but not-quite-dead, you'd likely find that a quilting of 5cm squares would suffice.

You'll find the web page at http://members.shaw.ca/ubik/thread/

(p.s. - Actually, I think I've sold thread recently to one or two people down your way. I'll check my email and let you know who, so you can see what kind of experience they've had with it.)

[DHCJr]

Another suggestion is to contact manufacturers of lame'. There are always scraps in the making of a lame'. Ask for some scraps. Also as suggested above, when a lame' has gone to far, like the lining has almost disappeared, use it as patches for other lame'.