Cleaning Gore-tex waders

[Newsjeff]

I just won a pair of Cabelas Gore-tex waders off Ebay. They look to be in pretty good condition for the money. However, they have some blood stains on them. After doing a little internet research, I found two cleaning products. One is ReviveX Synthetic Fabric Cleaner. The other is Nikwax Tech Wash. Has anyone used either of these products?

Here's the waders:
http://cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0000594811290a&type=product&cmCat=search&returnString=_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&hasJS=true&_D%3AhasJS=+&%2Fcabelas%2Fcommerce%2FCabelasCatalogNumberFinder.giftCertificateURL=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Ftemplates%2Fgiftcertificate%2Fgiftcertificate.jsp%3Fid%3D0005586990011a%26podId%3D0005586%26catalogCode%3DIB%26navAction%3Djump%26indexId%3D&_D%3A%2Fcabelas%2Fcommerce%2FCabelasCatalogNumberFinder.giftCertificateURL=+&QueryText=gore-tex+waders&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form9&Go.x=21&Go.y=14&N=4887&Ntk=Products&Ntx=mode+matchall&Nty=1&Ntt=gore-tex+waders&noImage=0&returnPage=search-results1.jsp

ReviveX:
http://www.mcnett.com/

Nikwax:
http://www.nikwax-usa.com/

Both these companies make a spray that supposed to help restore the Gore-tex outer shell, too. It can't hurt, right???

[YakandSurf]

My being tight with the wallet, wouldn't standing in the surf cause enough action to clean the blood off? Just a thought.

Robert

[Pauky]

Jeff,

How about scrubbing the stain with some light soap and water a tooth brush or something? If you do use any of these products, can you put up a post saying how it worked for you. I just dropped $220 on a Gortex rain jacket, so I may need to know if those products work well. That Gortex is freaken' expensive, ain't it? I hope this jacket solves some of the problems I had with my other rain jacket.

[Newsjeff]

The stains are kinda bad. I'm thinking it's fish blood and guts, but I'm not sure. I'm not too familiar with the way dried blood looks on Gore-tex ... or anything else for that matter. They look very dark - almost black. Kinda like tar. I'm thinking it's blood because most of the stains are on the same places I wipe my hands when wearing waders - on the front and back of the right leg.
The Cabales help line told me to use Dawn de-greasing detergent and spray them off with the hose outside. I dunno. I may start with that and see what happens.
The Gore-tex restore spray looks interesting, too.
Pauky, I'll let you know how this turns out.

[Pauky]

Thanks Jeff and good luck. This maybe a dumb suggestion, but what about that Oxyclean junk?

[rattler]

newsjeff...you didn't get them from the woman that put her husband in 3 suitcases did you?... :eek: ...lol

[Newsjeff]

newsjeff...you didn't get them from the woman that put her husband in 3 suitcases did you?... ...lol
Funny, I did find a poker chip in the inside pocket. :p