Hi this is Trevor with LeatherWallets.org. In this series of videos we're looking at water resistant wallets. And in this particular video we're looking at this guy. This is the Pelican Sport Wallet. I bought this off Amazon. All right. So it comes with these clamshell plastic packaging. I went ahead and cut off the edges so I didn't have to do that on the camera. You've got this card here, guaranteed for life. This is the wallet here. This isn't a wallet that I would consider using everyday. So different than a couple of the other wallets where they could function as everyday wallets. This is really dedicated wet environment wallet. So when you open it up you've got two sides with the mesh pockets that hold in the contents as well as a lanyard. So if you wanted to go ahead and hook this went up to the lanyard. And that's it. Pretty basic pretty interior let me see, so this is sewn down to that black, feels like plastic, inside the container. There is a rubber gasket type seal on the outside. They list this as an IP 54 which means: the five means dust. So the content shouldn't get dusty and the four is its water resistance and it should handle everything up to large splashes. So it's not rated for submersion but splashes it should handle just fine. And we're going to test that. How we're going to test that is we have a bunch of these little stickers here.
These are stickers that are typically found in electronics devices. We're going to take those out stick them onto cards put the cards in the wallet and then get it wet. The stickers will turn colors, when they come in contact with water. That's how we'll be able to tell how much water got into the device. It's got a pretty handy closure there. Feels very solid. Not a whole lot to show on this guy. Let's throw some cards in there and some cash we'll split cards and cash. Just to show how that will fit. So we'll go ahead and put four in to start with this as our card side. It's a fairly tight fit to get cards in there. I don't think cash is going to fit. But let's give it a try anyway. Let's throw five bills in their. It doesn't look tall enough. It's not. So you'd have to triple fold it if you wanted to fit cash in there. Which isn't a big deal. If you had no cash, probably looking at about about four cards in each side. Let me show you on the camera. One thing that I was having issues with is this ridge right here. The cards are hitting that. It looks like thread. I'm not sure what purpose that thread has in relation to the case. I imagine that this plastic is glued down and then these edges are, before it's glued are shown to the plastic.
I don't know what that stitching across the middle is for. You can see it's on both sides and that's really what's causing the issue. It goes down and it hits that right there. Then you just have to work it over that ledge. See it snapped in so I got this card and just pushed on it here snapped past that. That's stitching and stitch you will probably wear out pretty fast with cards going over it. But again, this isn't something that you're going to use day to day. I don't know how big of an issue that will be. This fit eight cards, four on each side. No cash.
Construction is very good. The gasket is a cool addition. This is going to do a lot to protect your belongings when your wallet is getting wet. Feels very solid when when closing it. Yes, feels good. It is crush proof so that will be handy if you've got something in there that can't be crushed. The only problem I have is that stitching area right there. I don't know why they did that. That's unfortunate. Otherwise I wouldn't have any issues at all. There you go. The Pelican Sport wallet. Next we're going to take this outside and get it wet to see how well it will protect the contents.
We are outside in my backyard we've got all the wall e ts set up. We're going to do the water test so each of them have a card like this in it that has these little dots that turn colors and see they turn red when water hits it. On that backside I also have some tissue paper taped to it so we can use that as an indicator as well. So let's get started. All right. Test one light spritz.
We're back from our rain shower on the wallet. Let's see how the pelican sport wallet did. Looking good, there's a little moisture in that edge. If I can get this card out, you can none of those tripped. Great. The tissue paper on the back looks brand new. I got some water here. Since the pelican sport wallet did so well in our rain test. Let's try a dunk test. So imagine you have this in your pocket, you slip, you fall, it gets soaked, but you get back out and we'll see how it does. We'll take one of our cards that has no red on it and tissue paper looks good. Throw it in there and seal it up. Here you are, walking down the side of the river. You're fishing. And then what. Oh no. My wallet got all wet dang it! Lets see how it did. I don't want to spill water on it. But you can see there first indications are nothing. Let me dry my hand off a little bit. Nothing on the inside is wet. Don't see any droplets or anything. No, perfectly good. So that was the dunk test, let's try just submersing this for a couple of minutes, not for a couple minutes, lets try submersing it just for a little bit. So this is you know you're walking along you were going to check something but then you dropped it and it does float which is good here.
Flip it on the other side. So what do you think? It's not rated to be submersible again. This is IP54. Dust and splash protection. Let's see how it did. Again I don't want to open it causing a drip to go into the wall e t. Dry off the case a little bit. It looks good. It looks like it passed. My hands are a little wet still. None of those tripped, tissue paper is good. OK. So that's the dunk test on the Pelican sport wallet. It's a great little wallet. I mean this isn't going to be something that you use every day but if you're looking for some protection for you know maybe have some SD cards your wallet some cash that you know you don't want to get wet. And you know there's a good chance this is great little option. Crush proof, lifetime warranty. That's it for the Pelican Sport Wallet. If you have any questions comments concerns make sure you leave them below. Make sure to check out our Web site LeatherWallets.org as well as the other videos we have online. Thanks so much. Goodbye.
