What doe people reckon are the best knee pads you can buy? Looking for best comfort and durability. Not gunna beat around the Bush, I'm not a small human and I've gone through 2 sets of knee pads in a year!Any particular brand better than others?? I've got Beaver ones currently and have trashed 2 sets!
Quote from: JefeBo55 on August 24, 2020, 10:54:32 pmI can't find the rude finger emoji What doe people reckon are the best knee pads you can buy? Looking for best comfort and durability. Not gunna beat around the Bush, I'm not a small human and I've gone through 2 sets of knee pads in a year!Any particular brand better than others?? I've got Beaver ones currently and have trashed 2 sets!I like beaver ones. Have also got a pair on warmbac Kevlar ones. But those aren’t adjustable? When you say you aren’t small: do you mean that the gentleman in caving supplies doesn’t have anything your size?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I can't find the rude finger emoji What doe people reckon are the best knee pads you can buy? Looking for best comfort and durability. Not gunna beat around the Bush, I'm not a small human and I've gone through 2 sets of knee pads in a year!Any particular brand better than others?? I've got Beaver ones currently and have trashed 2 sets!
when I get my next oversuit, I am going to look at stitching reinforcement across the knees (a few layers of material sacrificed from my old suit should do the trick), and then to just wear the more comfortable sports-type kneepads under the oversuit.
I think there is a similar topic on here from a few years ago, which is quite useful. No time to find it as I type but if you do a bit of searching it should come up.
Deviating slightly from knee pads to elbow pads... Before you throw out a knackered pair of wetsocks, cut the feet off and bin them, but the long bit up your leg never wears out. These are great worn on the fore-arm/ elbow and really increase the life of oversuit arms.
I've used the Lesters in the past, though I'm not sure what I did with mine - might still be lurking in the spare kit pile, or so I hope! I found the best way to deal with the strap chafing issue was wear a pair of neoprene knee supports (the sort Aldi/Lidl do for around a fiver as specials) which seemed to do the trick for me. Main issue I had with them was their tendency to collect mud during grotty crawls which IIRC is why I shifted onto Warmbacs.
I go for the cheaper Warmbac ones, coat the front in Sikaflex ETB+ (300 ml is a few quid from Screwfix) and use the same stuff to stick some neoprene on the back. Lasts as long as the Warmtex in my experience, is comfier than the standard kneepads, and easily fixed with a bit more Sikaflex.
Just out of interest, what do you use to apply this stuff to the surface with?
Quote from: pwhole on August 26, 2020, 11:26:39 amJust out of interest, what do you use to apply this stuff to the surface with? Like any good night in; a pair of nitrile gloves and a couple of fingers.
Just applied some ETB to my oversuit and it works well. I got black becuase that's all there was in stock but clear is probably better so it doesn't look quite so awful.
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