Leather thumb drag/protection on a 113h Tank

[Big Tim]

Idk ....we drink a lot of beer in Aus and ive never seen or even heard of a beer drinking glove till now...lol...Kudos to u ....only in America 

Here is my custom cold weather drinkin' mittn' 

[Mandelstam]

I love the turn this thread has taken!

[Big Tim]

I love the turn this thread has taken!

Just so you know because of you I'm looking thru my old Harley stuff to find one of my old belts, so that I can cut it up and make a leather thumb drag for my next project or even for my 112H I just built...Now I know I'm hooked.

Tim

[conchydong]

 Captain Harry's in Miami sell these finger protectors for a buck. Just a piece of leather with elastic to wrap around your finger or thumb. Works for righties and lefties.
BTW Big Tim, that is blasphemous drinking a Miller with a Budweiser drinking glove.

[Tightlines667]

This stuff works wonders if your casting a lot, as and hard-core Musky (fish of 10,000 casts) fishermen would tell you.  Also good to have in the first aid kit to seal Knicks and cuts when in a wet environment.

[LTM]

This stuff works wonders if your casting a lot, as and hard-core Musky (fish of 10,000 casts) fishermen would tell you.  Also good to have in the first aid kit to seal Knicks and cuts when in a wet environment.

Tightlines,

Are you saying that this is a substitute for the thumb brake or as a first aide treatment after the fact?

Leo

[Ron Jones]

Its both. If you use it before, and keep it built up, it will help with line burn tremendously. If you don't, it will stop the bleeding.
Ron

[Shark Hunter]

Yes,
The fish of 10,000 casts has evaded my efforts. I've had them follow my Hellbenders right to the boat, and nothing gets your blood pumping like seeing a 6 foot Muskie turn his tail and swim away from you! I am strictly a saltwater fisherman now. The payoff is much quicker.

[Mandelstam]

So, been throwing some ideas back and forth with Dom and we've decided to go with another route that doesn't involve drilling the frame. It's a simpler solution but it's also non removable. But I think both me and Dom feel a little bit safer that it doesn't involve any drilling. If you want to change something later on you sort of have a blank canvas when you remove it and that can be good.

Leather is folded around the frame and then riveted with a ss pop rivet.


A cross section of the whole thing. The leather thickness is from leather scraps I had lying around. I think it will work out fine.

[erikpowell]

Too easy!.....Good solution 
I'd go with that if it was me. keep it simple..... KISS

[Irish Jigger]

Too easy!.....Good solution 
I'd go with that if it was me. keep it simple..... KISS

x2, great idea.

[Alto Mare]

It shows you're an Architect , very nice Karl. Maybe you could use a stainless sex-bolt instead of a rivet, just in case you want to remove it or get in there to clean it.

[Irish Jigger]

It might get hot enough without the sex- bolt sal

[Keta]

Maybe you could use a stainless sex-bolt instead of a rivet, just in case you want to remove it or get in there to clean it.

X2

[Robert Janssen]

Karl, you ARE aware that snaps, flush rivets and similar are easily available from places like Clas Ohlson, Panduro, Olsson's Tyger and so on..?  If you are interested, i mean.

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