Hello,

I recently received my jack and jackchains that I had waited so long for, so I attached the chains to the jack and tried it out for a while. After I took the chains off there were some small rust stains on the arms, a large rust stain on the shoulder, and also what appeared to be grease stains all the way down the arms. I'd like to remove them if possible but I don't want to ruin or discolor my jack by cleaning them off the wrong way. So I decided to ask the myArmoury community if they have had any experience in this area, and how they removed their stains

Washing and dry cleaning are not options since on the label it reads "Dry clean only without leather" (since it has 16 leather laces and leather around the neck thats out of the question).

In case it helps its a GDFB "Gambeson for Jack Chains" (it's really a jack... :eek: ).

Thank you in advance for your help in this matter. :)

Oxyclean.

Or...

Stains look cool.

I have a similar problem, but decided to go with the "used" look, too.

Well: the reddish leather used at the rimms of my gambeson discolors when sweating and stains the gambesons arms... That's quite annoying, because it also stains my undercloth. I always look like a slaughtered swine after I pull off the jacket. At one time spectators were afraid, I had been hit serverely in the armpit, due to that effect... :cool:

I'm afraid, if I try to wash my gamebeson, the leather would stain the whole thing!

Thomas

Well painting the back of plate armour with rust resistant paint might help with some " staining " as the rear of the plate in contact with the arming clothes wouldn't need to be oiled but I'm afraid that any light or natural fibre colour gambison will always look a little wear darkened or dirty scuff marks.

A dark grey or black gambison hides dirt better than a white one. ;) :lol:

Embrace the dirt with pride and talk a lot about period look that took a lot of effort to get and how hard it was trying to get the annoying clean look to go away. ;) :p

The back of my chains are painted, it seems thin in some areas tho, I have considered re-painting them but have other maintenance stuff to do first.

I guess i'll learn to accept the stains like I accept the scratches and nicks in my metal equipment. :)

I think you might be thinking of the wrong GDFB garment David, the one I have is listed as having a canvas shell, and it feels like canvas too.

And hopefully my jack reacts that way to blood, i've been worried about a bleeding hand staining the sleeve of my jack. (hand gashes are a regular occurance in my random duels with my friend)

............................................................hehe...yea...I...I knew that...

I'm not up to date on my fabric knowledge...thanks for enlightening me. :)