How to waterproof canvas
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Waterproofing my Mule Team canvas P.A.C.K. One with beeswax.
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hi guys doing today this is we Myers mess outdoors today we're going to be waterproofing canvas with beeswax so don't go away alright guys so what I got here is that canvas bag from Mule Team canvas company and I know the last guy said that I was going to wait so the green hauls came along and diet was walnut die but I just found out that I'm going to be getting several other pieces of canvas so I can go ahead and save that video for when the green hauls come on went ahead and dyed this dark brown with just regular rip dye you get from any like fabric store you can even get it up one more even I like a lot it came out really really nice but I want to get up waterproof what I wanted to do is to wax this was beat with beeswax and just with a regular paintbrush and we're gonna heat the beeswax up with this stove right here the propane stove and just basically paint it on just like this and don't worry we're going to get close-ups all this stuff and then after we're done with the whole pack we take either a heat gun or what I have is a hair dryer it works just the same and then blow-dry it to let that wax settle in evenly all around the packing comes out really really nice and it's very very functional because then your gears waterproof at that moment but there you go that's the pack die I like it a lot looks really good let's get to making it waterproof all right so I've already been doing some waxing on other pieces of gear so I've already got some beeswax in this pan right now but let's just get this stove lit up real quick that's on
I want to get this down a little lower you don't need the flame raging you want to be able to control this you don't want the beeswax to smoke that would be too hot so this is the beeswax that I got and you know you can find beeswax at like fabric stores and things like that I would err on the side of caution as far as that goes and just search out local honey manufacturing places and things like that first of all they could use your business second of all it's going to be 100% no ole beeswax you know there's the only thing that this is is beeswax there's nothing else in it not paraffin anything else okay so that's already starting to get a little liquefied there I already know that I'm gonna need more of this in this pot so I'm gonna take my knife and start chunking this up a little bit just getting it ready to go in the pot alright guys we got a really good amount that is melted in there right now that's why through that whole block in there because I realize like a lot of waxing to do here so and I don't mix this with anything else you can dilute this I don't I just leave it my our percent beeswax some people do some people don't my personal preference and just go ahead and get that on the bag and do not worry about it looking sloppy or pasty or anything like that because after we get it on the bag that's when we go to the hairdryer and get her
and if you sit there and miss a spot don't worry about it because all this stuff is going to melt and it's gonna blow in to the canvas so I mean if it's if it looks like spotty and oh man I missed a spot I really better get in there and get that don't worry about it it'll all get cover here in a little bit if you when you're first doing this you'll freak out like oh it looks like crap I've ruined my bag just be patient don't you go put the heat gun or the hairdryer to it whichever one you're doing
it'll be very waterproof at the end sure you get those threats and you're really good to protect them that's what's gonna road the bag faster those threadings get wet let me start rotting away alright guys so as you can see I'm pretty much almost done with this side here got a little too much on a little couple places but that's okay like I said what I did was allow myself some dry spacing here so what happens with the places that I have access way way too much beeswax just dripped on there it'll blow in and saturate over here so what I'm going to do is I'm actually gonna just stop where I'm at right now and in the interest of time just show you me getting this part heat it in alright guys so I'm actually in my kitchen right now so if the lighting is not that great I apologize for that ahead of time and I'm gonna be running this hairdryer so I apologize for the noise as well but see all the high areas we've already been running the hairdryer a little bit on this but all the higher areas of wax that's what we're going to be melting down and getting more of an even coverage that deer hanging like a live deer hair and their butt alright I'm going to turn this hairdryer on so this could be kind of hard to hear me but you'll see the the wax melting into the pack alright guys so we're going to go ahead and continue on with this and we're going to get right back with you alright guys so got kind of a before and after thing going on here just wanted to show you what's going on with the Milton I got some places that didn't get wax taken in very well and we're gonna put the hit those with a second coat but you can see what happens before with the initial cold application and then we heat it up and get the wax melted in and then we'll apply a second coat and then applied very very well the places that need reapplied so I'm gonna get this done and get the rest of this melted in and then I'm gonna get the whole pack done and we're going to show you guys what it looks like so stay tuned all right guys we're pretty much done with that side of the pack there's a couple areas that need touched up like right here but it's still waxed it's just not as heavily waxed as some of the other areas and you know this stuff is really really stiff when you first get done with it but just working the fabric and repented use and things like that will soften it up and but this was a sheen water right off these wax so that's the process this winter to definitely show you guys that and we're gonna go ahead and finish this pack up and the batteries can't read die so we're gonna charge it up and we're gonna do a couple other videos so we'll show you the finished product probably another video alright guys just want to give you kind of a look at the untreated side which is that flap and then the treated side right there you can see how darker the wax made it and this is really really loose obviously and that's really stiff I mean I can almost hold the pack up just with the bottom of it a little stiff
wax heavily
all right guys so as far as this goes it still got some heat then used to be applied to it to get it to drain more into the pack this way but this saw it's getting there and then like I said the cameras generated die so we got to cut it from here but I just wanted to see you I just wanted to show you guys that side of it and then we'll work off our way to the rest of the pack all right guys alright guys so this is what we're gonna be waxing today and it's going to be making this is going to be making it waterproof
all right guys what's been a softer word do it all time
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William Myers MantisOutdoors
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