UK Curl

[michael steinrok]

Okay I know I'm new but I 've had the workman for almost 3 years and the bloody thing keeps curling up like Shirley Temples hair What oh what,can a poor electrician do???

[Riverkilt]

Well, no one believes me, but what works WELL for me is weighted clips.

Get some plastic WalMart hangers with two clips on them. Look near them and you'll see bags of extra clips. Buy a LOT of extra clips so you can put five clips on one hanger.

You'll need about 50 clips if you wanna weight the inside and outside pleats.

Buy some gaffer/duct tape.

Go to sporting goods and buy 100 1/2 ounce fishing weights.

Tape one weight to each side of each clip.

Wash your workman's. Hang three hangers up on a shower rod. Clip the workman's to the hangers.

Pull the pleats straight.

Clip a weighted clip to each pleat and let the kilt hang dry with the weights on it.

Weights pull the pleats straight while it drys. No ironing neede, no curled pleats.

A lot easier to do than to describe.

Ron

[Jimmy Carbomb]

Well, no one believes me, but what works WELL for me is weighted clips.

It's not that we don't believe you that it works... it's just that we don't believe that anyone has that much free time!!!

[Riverkilt]

I know Jimmy, I know....

But hey, it really does take less time, a lot less time, than ironing a kilt...went through that...either gotta manhandle the kilt on the ironing board, align the pleats just right, or steam through a towel, or lay the kilt out on the carpet, or blast away with a portable steamer..

Takes about two minutes to put the weighted clips on the pleats and less time to take them off when the kilt's dry.

Making up the weighted clips is mindless work, something for a tv movie or a ball game on tv. Once the clips are made its easy work.

I use the clips on all my kilts, but they seem to have the most effect on my Utilikilts. Think its because of the cotton and so many pleats.

If someone cast clips out of heavy metal with the UK logo they'd probably sell like hotcakes and no one would think twice about using them...

I know, being overly serious here...but hey folks, it does work and works well.

Ron

[switchblade5984]

I know Jimmy, I know....

But hey, it really does take less time, a lot less time, than ironing a kilt...went through that...either gotta manhandle the kilt on the ironing board, align the pleats just right, or steam through a towel, or lay the kilt out on the carpet, or blast away with a portable steamer..

Takes about two minutes to put the weighted clips on the pleats and less time to take them off when the kilt's dry.

Making up the weighted clips is mindless work, something for a tv movie or a ball game on tv. Once the clips are made its easy work.

I use the clips on all my kilts, but they seem to have the most effect on my Utilikilts. Think its because of the cotton and so many pleats.

If someone cast clips out of heavy metal with the UK logo they'd probably sell like hotcakes and no one would think twice about using them...

I know, being overly serious here...but hey folks, it does work and works well.

Ron

wow just seems like alot but worth a try.......

[Riverkilt]

A lot to describe, but in practice just a minute or two. Certainly much less time than to set up the ironing board, plug in the iron and wait for it to heat up.

Trying to wrestle a kilt on an ironing board is what led me to the clip method.

Did try Ham's way of ironing kilts on the carpet, which is the ONLY way to iron a kilt...but still a LOT of pleat positioning hassle and there's not a lot of room on the floor of my bachelor cave...and it ain't often very clean...

Weighted clips are fast and easy and work.

Ron