I won't believe it until you try it on my belay partner's climbing shoes. Their shoes should be banned under the Geneva convention.
Is your belay partner airing out the shoes (ideally outdoors) between sessions, or storing them in a closed bag?
Ig Nobel Prize: UVC light sterilizes shoes, kills odor
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#12Recently heard that about a study saying UV light can disable airbone allergens in a short time. And now this make it seem there's going to be a big demand for UV lights
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#13I won't believe it until you try it on my belay partner's climbing shoes. Their shoes should be banned under the Geneva convention.
Have you tried spraying them inside and out with 70% isopropyl alcohol?
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#14Any time I have tried to use a UVC light on a product, it always comes out smelling worse. Like, burnt somehow.
Going by the article, you might try reducing the exposure time.
My particular device has a fixed 2 minute timer, but apparently a "burnt hair" smell is an inevitable side-effect of the process.
https://www.uvccleaningsystems.com/cm/dpl/downloads/articles...
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#16I won't believe it until you try it on my belay partner's climbing shoes. Their shoes should be banned under the Geneva convention.
Is your belay partner airing out the shoes (ideally outdoors) between sessions, or storing them in a closed bag?
The clip them with a carabiner to their climbing pack they bring to the gym. I think they air out...
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use bleach infused cleaning wipes and I stuff few of them inside each shoe for few nights. I take them out whenever I put on the shoes. On a negative note, it caused some cheaper insoles to literally fall apart overnight while doing this.
Just curious, do you know the active ingredients on the wipes? ... I wear socks. There's a lot of things holding back my climbing, proper diet, weight training, sticking to a plan, etc... socks are not holding me back pahaha.
The ingredients are:
Anionic active ingredients less than five percent, fragrance, hydrogen peroxide, sodium bicarbonate, acetic acid, preservative - methylchloroisothiazolinone.
I don't see at a glance how it's bleach infused as the packaging claims.