You can try shoe-goo (or similar). I think coffeeneur uses that to affix her patches to bags.
shoji (who has a drawer full of patches and needs to make time to get 'em on the bags.) On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 8:19:01 PM UTC-5, dougP wrote: > > The heat gun may be worth a shot. I tried ironing patches onto my Acorn > rando bag & found they don't stick very well. I believe the bag material > is coated & prevents a good bond. Mine is several years old & has seen > enough weather that I was hoping to get enough stick'em from the patches. > I battled with the needle for one but that bag material is so heavy it's a > serious struggle. Broke 3 needles just on the small goathead patch from > Bike Tinker. Time for professional help. > > dougP > > On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 4:19:53 PM UTC-8, Meade Anderson wrote: >> >> Has anybody tried using a heat gun (paint remover) to soften the glue on >> the back of the patch then pressing it on the bag? Irons don't work well >> in many situations especially if you are using them on bags such as Swift >> Industries. And yes I am lazy and am trying to avoid the needle and thread >> method... >> >> thanks >> >> meade (paying for a warm beautiful Thanksgiving weekend with a misty >> Sunday...) >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
