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Post by longtrail on Jul 23, 2008 9:34:50 GMT -5
Was talking to Shady Bill about tanning and he was talking about how humid it is in La. It made me wonder how you guys down south in the humid areas cope with drying out a hide. I thought back to time spent in Florida, and accidentally leaving the moon roof on my toyota open during a downpour. With puddles still in my car, I went to HOme Depot to see what they had to remedy my soggy car. They have little moisture absorbers that hang, designed for closets or something. I hung one in my car and within a few days the car was dry and the plastic bag attached to the item was full of water. Maybe hanging a few of those in your shop would help with the additional moisture in the air. We have a friend who tans buffalo and does most of his work inside a shop. He has a large dehumidifier and uses the water that is absorbed into it, to make his brain solution out of. Just a thought. lt
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Jul 23, 2008 10:22:37 GMT -5
I bet it is way easier to dry on out west when we were in N>M> last month we could take a water bottle out of the ice and it would soon be powder dry on the out side where here it stays wet .Working a hide dry here takes hours.
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Post by beaudro on Jul 23, 2008 12:05:21 GMT -5
here in north east Oklahoma it can be big time humid one day, the next day be really dry. Talk about diverse weather, we got it. Softening is the part of tanning thats hard for me. If you get a good dry day to soften, you better get with it. I finally broke down and put a window unit a/c in the shop. But in the winter when it's cold and rainy I won't be able to rid the moisture like I can now. The A/C was cheaper than a de humidifier, but maybe i should have thought about the winter months.
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Jul 23, 2008 22:03:03 GMT -5
Beaudro wouldnt a wood heater dry the air out ?
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Post by longtrail on Jul 23, 2008 23:41:07 GMT -5
Ya, its pretty primo here for drying hide conditions. Dry and hot, wind kicks up about 11am and off at 5. If we have to wait for a hide to dry and work it occasionally, we bitch and moan when it takes over three hours to have a hide soften and dry. The other day it was 105 in the shade here, and the wind was blowing. Felt like some one turned on a hair dryer.
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Post by paskinner on Jul 24, 2008 9:12:44 GMT -5
I wouldn't be able to tan near as well without fans. It's humid here, a lot of the time, and softening outside can be iffy. I usually finish hides inside with the fans, even on nice days. We've had rain almost every day lately. On those damp days, they can take a long time to dry even in front of the fans. We use wood heat in the winter and sometimes just on cool days, I'll have a real small fire going to speed things up. Probably should have a dehumidifier for the shop.
I think there should be some way to get a hide to the perfect moisture content without wet spots. That would speed up drying a lot. I've tryed different wringers, but they leave the hide too wet, so I just stick wring.
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Post by joanne2 on Jul 24, 2008 9:31:56 GMT -5
Love to have one of those old laundromat 'extractors'. That was probably long before your 'time' when those were a cool thing..possibly PA? LOL
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