The Lame of MY Problems... (Sabre)

[Phoenix]

I need help with this sabre lame.

During my fencing class this weekend, the lame I use at the club that fits my exactly, wasn't working well and my coach told me to throw it out after my bouts. After class, I asked him if I really needed to throw it out because it fit me. So he told me to take it home, wash it in cold water (I used lukewarm/cold by accident) with ammonia, and hang it on a plastic hanger. Then spray it with windex. So I brought it today to fencing and he told me it was half dead. The sleeves were the problem. He told me to "somehow" sew thread into the arm of the sleeves down it and across it all around the sleeve. How do I do this without sewing into the other side?
Very confused.

Has anyone ever heard this or tried this? Can u help me? Or should I just get one for christmas and suffer until then with too big or too small lames ( I don't think I can...).

I heard about a infinity lame on another post and responded, but maybe I can ask here: they are "supposly" light and fit well, but do they last a long time and are they efficent.

Thanks for helping me out

[DHCJr]

I would rinse it again first of all and when you wash, Hand Wash. It is best not to put a lame in a washing machine.

As far as the sleeves are concerned, they can be revived. First, rinse it again. The old joke, but true, when you think you have rinsed it enough, rinse it at least one more time. One of the problems with the sleeves is corossion gets in the seam, either with the detergent, windex, sweat, etc. What you can do after you have rinsed it again is grip the material on both sides of the seam and move back and forth to try breaking up the corossion. Do this over the whole seam.

Hopefully you have a Ohm meter. You can get a cheap workable analog for somewhere around $10 - $20. For this analog is much better. Try and test from one side of the seam to just over the other side of the seam. Then test the rest of the sleeve.

If there is no connection between the sleeve and the rest of the jacket, you can take metalic thread and sew from one side of the seam to the other to get the connection.

Hope this helps.