How to properly sew a ball - tips, tricks and techniques

It would seem that information about how to properly sew a ball should become uninteresting - sports equipment in stores is offered in the widest range, so that a torn ball is not difficult to replace. In fact, the question is still relevant. Good inventory is so expensive that it sometimes needs to be collected in months. Yes, and buy a quality ball is not so simple.

Do you mess around or not?

Learn how to properly sew a ball, it makes sense only if you have on hand a really good, leather thing. First, keep in mind that the work will be painstaking and time-consuming. For the sake of cheap things, do not bother with it. And secondly, dermatitis, from which in the majority consist inexpensive footballs, all the same longly will not hold on after regenerative procedures - seams will quickly creep out. It is possible that this will happen even in the process of resuscitation.

Even if you decide to sew a ball, do not forget: you will not be able to restore its original ideal shape. On a melon the object, most likely, will not resemble all the same, but it will not be a full-fledged ball either. So he will be fit only for training and friendly matches.

Preparing the toolkit

That your works were successful, you need to stock up:

• Strong threads, thick, nylon, twisted, but the line will not go - it will stretch itself and tear the fastener;
• Shilom, matched to the size of holes on the elements of the ball;
• A special tool-eyelet.

At the last we will stop in detail. To create it, take a piece of elastic steel string with a section not more than half a millimeter and a length of 20 cm. In the middle, it is heated on a candle, burner or lighter and bent in half. The ends are clamped with a screw M5 in the rod - it will become a handle, greatly facilitating the work. The end of the loop expands to the size of the thread and slightly bends to push it. You can start work.

The beginning of time

Now directly on how to properly sew the ball. The ripped seam ruptures to the nearest joint. The camera descends, and through the resulting hole the ball is turned inside out. Nearby seams are checked for strength. If they diverge, they will have to be ripped apart. Often there is a need for evaporation of the whole pentagon element, or even several. On untouched joints the thread fastening is checked: it should be tightened to the stop, and the knot - not to start to blossom. If this is observed, the knot should be tightened as tightly as possible and tied 3-4 times.

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We proceed to the divergent seam.

1. In the already existing hole, the loop is inserted so that it passes through both connected elements.
2. The tip of the thread is inserted into the loop and extended to the other side.
3. A double knot is knotted with the maximum thread tightening and so that it is inside.
4. The loop is inserted into the next hole on the right; One end of the double thread stretches to the right.
5. The loop returns to the previous hole, and the second end is dragged to meet the already stretched thread.

This procedure is repeated again and again. Visually, the seam looks like a pair of opposing snakes. When it reaches the corner of the pentagon, the filaments stretch in opposite directions for maximum tightening of the elements, after which several knots are tied and fused with a cigarette lighter. In this state, the fastening is guaranteed to be protected from divergence.

When the last element remains, the ball is turned to the "face", the camera is inserted, and the pentagon is sewn in the same way as the rest, but without tightening. Putting it back into place, the shvets pull the ends through the remaining small hole, tie up and melt the bundle, which then pushes through the match.

Restoring nipple and camera

Knowing how to properly sew a ball, you will be useful to you and if you started to poison the nipple or damaged directly the internal camera. Note that in times of global deficit of this knowledge, you would have been enough: with "scoop" it was easy to buy new "details". So all the trouble was getting the old ones out and investing new ones. Now the repair of balls is not so simple. Buy a football camera is almost impossible. So you have to gently rip open the shell and reanimate the old "stuffing".

1. If the nipple holds, and the ball goes down, then the camera is poisonous. It is necessary to release air from it, carefully cut the minimum of seams and pull it out. The chamber is lowered into a bucket of water; On pop-up bubbles, the place of breakdown is determined and surrounded by an indelible marker. Next, a repair kit for inflatable mattresses is used. Carry out the "treatment" of the camera, insert it back. And how to sew a football ball, you already know.
2. Determine the incontinence of the nipple can be the same as on a bicycle camera, or simply drop it into the water and observe if the air is coming out. For repair, the ball breaks in the segment where the nipple comes out, the non-functioning element is cut with the piece of the chamber until the hardening ends. From the inside, the convex nipple (approximately 12 mm in diameter) is tightened with a strong thread so tightly that a wet needle can hardly enter. When the pressure will hold, over the nipple glued a 2 cm more in size, then the nipple is bridged to the camera with the same repair kit.