Finally Timed Myself With The Weighted Clips

**Riverkilt** · 14th December 05, 09:51 PM

Have talked about the WalMart hanger clips, bought by the bag, then duct taping half ounce fishing weights to each side. Keep getting feed back that it takes too long to use them.

Tonight, washed my black survival UK. Total time to take it out of the washer, shake it out, hang it up on three hangers on the shower rod, straighten the pleats by hand with a gentle tug, and attach a weighted clip to the bottom of 27 outer pleats was four minutes. Just taking my time, not rushing.

The kilt will dry with the pleats straight, uncurled, from the weight of the clips. No need to iron. Might take another minute to take the clips off the dry kilt and hang it up.

Five minutes seems like a lot less time than it would take to set up an ironing board, heat up an iron, and manhandle the pleats around the ironing board.

Sorry, don't mean to nag...just never before taken the time to pass on how quickly it is to get the kilt up and weighted for drying.

Ron

**michael steinrok** · 14th December 05, 10:59 PM

Sounds good whats a hanger clip and you said you used fishing weights?

**Riverkilt** · 14th December 05, 11:23 PM

Go to the plastic hangar section of WalMart (unless you refuse to shop there...enough discussion on that already). You will find bags of a dozen extra clips that match the clips they sell on their white plastic hangars. The hangars come with two clips already. I like to add three more to each hangar.

You'll need about 50 extra hangar clips...they look like stubby clothes pins made of plastic. Buy 100 half ounce fishing weights. Buy some duct tape/gaffer tape. Tape one weight to each side of each clip, two clips to a weight.

Wash your utilikilt, AmeriKilt, Freedom Kilt, Pittsburgh Kilt, whatever Kilt. Hang it from the three hangars on a shower rod. Then straighten the pleats and clip a weighted hangar clip to the bottom of each pleat. Let it dry.

Not sure how much simpler to describe it. Easy fast.

Ron

**KiltedCodeWarrior** · 15th December 05, 10:21 AM

Ron, I think you mean two weights to a clip, not 2 clips to to a weight, but I also wanted to ask if you would post a pic of a kilt hanging with the weights?

When you hang it up, do you hang it folded like for wearing or fully open, so that it would go the whole length of the shower curtain rod?

**millar** · 15th December 05, 10:46 AM

Ron thanks for this information. Having just ironed my kilt yesterday I understand why you felt the need to invent a better solution. However I have to say I am giving Jimmy's steaming solution a harder look.

**bubba** · 15th December 05, 11:05 AM

Might try combining the two methods and get straighter pleats. Put the clips on and hang the kilt, then steam the pleats and let it cool down with the weights on.