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vigia · 07-07-2003, 08:07 PM

What is the recommended way to wash or otherwise clean an electric sabre glove (leather glove covering the hand, lame material that slides over the sleeve. Standard issue Ulmann)

I was going to wash it in woolite etc. per the usual lame washing instructions, but I wasn't sure about the leather.

ccm · 07-08-2003, 03:56 PM

Is it one of the blue and gray gloves? In that case you can use the same instructions as for a washable lame.
The reason: These gloves are NOT made of leather, but of synthetic stuff.

I hand washed mine a short while ago and it is still doing fine.

If you got one of the real leather gloves (which most likely will not have any blue color in them) then I do not recommend washing that.

vigia · 07-08-2003, 05:49 PM

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Originally posted by ccm
Is it one of the blue and gray gloves?

It is a blue and grey Ulmann glove. Not leather? It sure looks and feels like leather!

retardedspleen · 07-09-2003, 04:20 AM

As i remember... If the outside is fuzzy, its synthetic. If its slick, like the hard type of exterior leather, than its real leather.

Can anybody back me up on this? im pretty confident im correct. but not posative, and wouldnt want you to ruin a good glove.

Chris Triplett

ccm · 07-09-2003, 10:48 AM

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Originally posted by vigia
It is a blue and grey Ulmann glove. Not leather? It sure looks and feels like leather!

My sabre glove has a label saying it is made of 60% Polyamid (PA) / 40% Polyurethan (PUR). (This only means the hand part, the cuff is of course made partly from some metal thread!)

This is true for all the Uhlmann / Allstar gloves which are blue/gray or red/gray. (And for the light yellow Eco gloves, too.)

BTW, I think the particular synthetic used for the glove is about the same as the artificial leather usually called Alcantara (which is used for car and furniture upholstery, among other things).

vigia · 07-10-2003, 11:25 AM

Great, thanks!

theperfect01 · 07-13-2003, 11:43 PM

Spray some windex on it.

Marcos · 07-14-2003, 05:56 AM

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Originally posted by theperfect01
Spray some windex on it.

are you greek!

theperfect01 · 07-14-2003, 06:59 PM

Hey, I'm not one to pass up the practical sense of windex. Although personally, I'm convinced that windex is satan's handiwork. I mean, anything that can get glass so clean that birds fly into and break their necks has got to be evil.

We've always used windex to clean lames, though. Works pretty well.