Club Obi Wan

Well, I was at Disneyland, the most EXPENSIVE place on Earth, this weekend and I took my brand new Keppler fedora with me. I planned to keep this hat looking new meaning natural distressing. No Fullers Earth, etc etc. But on saturday night I changed my mind. I said I TAKE IT BACK and put some Fullers Earth on it. Then while in line at TOTFE, I felt a TWACK on my brim. I thought it was a tree branch because it hit that hat hard. I look up then see the women behind me wipiing her forehead and saying "What was that?". Seeing her wipe her forehead scared me. So I touched the brim where I felt the hit and guess what? Squish! So I pulled out my Surefire and lit up the brim.@#$%! Literally! Everyone around me saw it because those Surefires are bright! And when everyone what was on my hat, I heard that loudest "AAAWWW". Everyone felt my pain. My Raiders has turned into a LC fedora. I wanted to make my fedora look old and beat up and God said "Here, let me help!" Thanks God... and while in line for TOTFE. How ironic. Thank God I sprayed on my Scouts before I entered the park. BTW, the same women who got hit in the head gave me a napkin and I was able to wipe all of it off. All that was left was a wet spot which turned into crust the morning after. And I only had this hat less than a week. Have a good one!

Best Regards,
Jun

Jun, wear your hat to an airport and then fly somewhere, cross country. God will do the rest.

Hypothetically, that is. I DID do that, round trip, literally coast to coast, and nothing happened to mine, so go figure. (grins) Regards. Michaelson

Hey Michaelson!

Alright, the wet spot has now dried and I cannot remove the stain. If I can remove, good. If I cannot, its really no big deal anyway. What do you think I should do?

Best Regards,
Jun

If it's just on the surface, a good brushing with a semi stiff bristle brush should do the trick, but if it's penetrated the fibers, that's another story. I have access to a product called Sol-u-mel that is supposedly organic, nature friendly and all that jazz that I purchased from a fellow here at work that does indeed work some weird magic on stains in materials such as carpet, cloth, and the like. I'd have to say a non-petrolium based product would work in cleaning that stain, but I have no idea what you have available on the West Coast. Let me do some head scratching and get back to you on this. Regards. Micahelson

I might want to try a product you can buy at any Petco or PetsPlus... called Natures Miricle. Gets any stain and stench out. Might want to also look into Oxi-Clean.

...I consulted Joe Jr., and he says that getting it off right away is the best thing to do, BUT, since this has dried, you take a wash cloth and just dampen it (he emphasized the word 'damp' several times), then working in a clock wise motion, starting at the center of the stain and working your way outward rubbing gently (he emphasized the word 'gently' too) in a cork screw direction. You'll have to change areas of the cloth often as the stain will be pulled out on the cloth. Continue to work this way until the stain is removed. You can use a litle gentle pressure if necessary, but do not overdo. Once the stains is removed and fedora completely dried at room temperature, brush the area in a counter clock wise direction as that's the way the nap of the felt lays. If this doesn't work, he said you'll need to go to a professional (Joe, of course (grins)) and let him use the proper chemicals for your felt. Hope this helps. Regards. Michaelson

Did I miss sometinhg here? What was on the hat? :

Colt wrote:Did I miss sometinhg here? What was on the hat? :

@#$% I guess...

Have a good one!

Regards

Doctor Jones

I know this is reviving a REALLY old thread, but for those in the future who wish to position themselves in such a way that bird @#$% falls on their head here is something else that should work at taking out the stain.

It's called a Dry Cleaning Pad, and it is basically...a Dry Cleaning Pad. It is available at most places where you buy Laundry stuff, and its pretty cheap. You can also get them from Noggintops.

Regards,

Farn

P.S. I hope you got the hat cleaned okay, forgive me poking fun at you. Look on the bright side: At least it hit your HAT, not your face.

I can't comment on what solutions or chemicals to use. The usual rule of thumb with any sort of clothing treatment is to try it first on a part of the clothing that no one will see.

With respect to the actual removal process:

I remember watching an episode of "This Old House" where a carpet installer was showing the best way to remove stains. His trick was to use a gentle "blotting" action with a small portion of a clean cloth, and to keep folding to cloth to present a clean surface; this prevents redistribution of the stain that you are removing. Easy does it, you want to remove the stain, not the material

Good luck.

Best to all,

plynck

All I can say, you have the worst luck, Koreana. My heart goes out to you, that almost beats the story when you left your fedora in somebody's car and they drove off with it for 2 weeks. I guess that was worse, since it turned into a Yamaka.

Your situation reminds me of the line in Last Crusade: "scheiße". )

-Sergei

I thought it was a mistake when I got an email saying someone replied tp this post. And Sergei, my Keppler fedora was lefted in a car for a month in the summer before I got it back. "Breaksh the heart" "And a head"