I've soiled my armour

Washer works. Or just hand wash it.

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I soaked my 661s in water and baking soda. Took the odor out really
well. For the external dirt, I just brushed it with a nylon brush,
again with the baking soda solution.

With the baking soda solution, you don't have to get too worried about
getting all the soap out of the armor.

That reminds me, my armor is starting to stink again.

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I'll pinch some baking soda from work tomorrow then. Cheers.

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Washing machine on hot. I've cleaned them like that about six times now.
The only thing that happend bad was there was some fuzz where the
adgitater was. Other then that they smell amazingly good after. I've
even used bleech and they come out nice and smelling good.

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billham said:

*

That reminds me, my armor is starting to stink again.

Bill *

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When your shoes stink you can put them in the freezer (in a plastic bag)
a couple of days, and the smell will go away.

And my guess is, leg armour is quite the same.

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You do you fencing. Awsome I do it also🙂 I just want to fence on a
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I wash my armor by hand in the bathtub using liquid dishwashing soap.
Then they get a rinse in clean water. As long as you give them a good
rinse I don't think it's going to cause any degradation of the foam.
The hard plastic splints in the armor won't be affected by the soap or
hand washing at all.

Some people have put their armor in a washing machine. I wouldn't do it
in a top loading machine that uses an agitator. The front loading
machines would be better. But people have put their armor in top
loading machines without harming the armor.

The trick is to wash the armor before it gets really really stinky. The
stink comes from bacteria. Washing the armor does not get rid of all of
the bacteria. There will be live little bacteria left behind. When the
armor gets warm and moist again and full of sweat the bacteria will
start dividing again and the stink will be back. Once you've got a
happy colony of stinky bacteria in your armor you are fighting a loosing
battle and it will require more frequent washings to keep them in
check.

The solution there would be to kill the bacteria. I saw one proposed
solution to use nitric oxide gas to fumigate smelly shoes. The nitric
oxide gas will kill the bacteria. That would get rid of the source of
the smell. Here's a news article about the research into that idea:
'Respite for cheesy trainers'
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/967499.stm). I haven't seen that
product come to market yet. The same idea would work for riding
armor.

A home chemist could create their own nitric oxide fumigation chamber
and see if it can get rid of the stink from old stinky armor. But do be
careful because NO gas is not safe to breathe. And I also wonder if the
process of creating the NO gas could create some acidic byproducts that
could damage the armor. And note that it's nitric oxide, not nitrous
oxide (laughing gas).

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A home chemist could create their own nitric oxide fumigation chamber
and see if it can get rid of the stink from old stinky armor. But do
be careful because NO gas is not safe to breathe. And I also wonder
if the process of creating the NO gas could create some acidic
byproducts that could damage the armor. And note that it's nitric
oxide, not nitrous oxide (laughing gas). *

Hmmmm...😄 Sounds like fun. I'll have to do a little
research.

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I hate that the most wear that my beloved armor get is from the washing
machine. John Child’s advice about hand washing is sound. I, too, tend
to let my armor get too stinky before I wash it. My wife no longer
allows me to bring it into the house. I also have taken to clipping a
mesh bag, with all of my riding gear in it, atop my truck so that it
dries on the way home from a ride – given dry weather. I also have
discovered a product called Frabreeze that takes the stink away - but
not the bacteria that John spoke of.

Tommy

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A wise rider told me tonight as we sat in the parking lot after our ride
downtown that he puts them in the shower and just stands on them. That
way they soap works its way in, and as he rinses clean, so do the armor.
With the massive amount of funk that I have in mine, I will be doing
that tomorrow night after my ride!

I used to take all of my skate pads and leave them in my moms freezer
in a ziplock bag. Seemed that freezing them killed all of the bacteria,
and got rid of the smell. Dont know if it will work with these pads,
but its work a try.

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*I used to take all of my skate pads and leave them in my moms
freezer in a ziplock bag. Seemed that freezing them killed all of the
bacteria, and got rid of the smell. Dont know if it will work with
these pads, but its work a try. *

Freezing does not kill bacteria. It will get them to hibernate and stop
growing. Once it gets warm again and their food source is back they'll
perk back up and start growing again and stinking again.

Freezing your pads will buy you some time, but will not solve the
problem.

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Will putting them in boiling water damage them?

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I wash my 661 4x4 in the washing machine using a gentle (wool) program
and normal liquid detergent. They show no excessive wear and come out
fine.

I wash my Harbinger wrist guards and the foam strips from my helmet in
the same go (the latter velcro in and out). Some of the foam strips
have lost a top layer that was apparently glued on, but they are still
functional without it.

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To wash wristguards in a machine, you can put them inside a sock, which
stops them getting worn in the washing machine. Maybe a pillow case
would do for armour.

I take my wristguards into the shower when they get stinky.

Joe

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bugman said:

*Hmmmm...😄 Sounds like fun. I'll have to do a
little research. *

You can make nitric oxide gas by combining citric acid and sodium
nitrate in water. I don't know the proportions. I've been too lazy to
dig out my chemistry textbook and figure it out.

My plan was to make a sealed box with a hole for a tube or a large
syringe. Put the citric acid and sodium nitrate in a bowl in the box
and seal up the box. Pour water in the bowl using the tube or syringe.
Then let everything sit for 12 hours or so. Or do it the easy way and
mix everything together in a bowl in the box and then seal the box up
after it starts reacting. Citric acid and sodium nitrate is easy to
order from chemical supply companies off the internet or locally.

It's been on my list of home experiments to try for over two years.
I've just been too lazy to lazy to actually do it (and I'm too lazy to
do the chemistry calculations to figure out the proportions and the
amounts). A little common sense to do it in an area with adequate
ventilation and it should be safe to experiment with.

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Of course, the ultimate way to kill off bacteria in your armor is to ask
your friend who works at a nuke plant to leave it next to a decent gamma
source for a few days. No beta or alpha sources please, due to risk of
contamination.

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i recently came across a product called "bioTEXT" its made by a company
caled Micrylium here in Toronto.

[image: http://www.bodyartpro.com/images/micrylium_logo.gif]

the website i ordered the stuff from says:
-Micrylium develops products for professionals with a great level of
concern for personal safety and for those with environmental concerns of
using toxic and polluting disinfectants. Hospital level disinfection can
be attained in less time with less personal and environmental impact
with phenol-free, ethanol-based formulations.-

mostly used in dentist offices vets and tattoo studios for hard and not
so hard surface dissinfection i use it to keep my armour from growing
nasy smelly bacteria.

anyway it works if you have a serios bacteria smell in the armour
problem you can put 60ml in the wash and that will work to kill
everything living fabric. as a preventitive measure you can spray your
pads after particularly sweatty rides and let them air dry.

[image: http://www.bodyartpro.com/images/textpouch.gif]

i got mine from http://www.bodyartpro.com/Micrylium/biotext.htm they
have the best price i could find on the stuff, i picked up the 500ml
pouch and just pored it in my own spraybottle, very economical.

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I consider trying chlorine or hydrogen peroxide. It would be possible to
get 35% hydrogen peroxide. If it's diluted to 3-5% it would probably not
damage the polyester too much. I'm curious what it would do to the
colour of my clothes though. Is chlorine better?

Both would get the smell out right?

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