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- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!ncar!sauvage!chris
- From: chris@chinook.atd.ucar.edu (Chris Webster)
- Subject: Re: GoreTex bags (was Re: Light & Warm Syn
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.170443.12822@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu (USENET Maintenance)
- Reply-To: chris@chinook.atd.ucar.edu
- Organization: Research Aviation Facility, NCAR, Boulder, CO
- References: <1992Nov16.014707.27942@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:04:43 GMT
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- stewe@cs.tu-berlin.de (Stephan Wenger) writes:
- >>>On the topic of wet down sleeping bags, any advice on restoring
- >>>the loft of one thats been completely soaked.
- >>
- >>After washing a down bag, you are supposed to dry it in a large
- >>front-loading dryer (low heat), with a few tennis balls thrown in
- >>to break up the clumps of down. So maybe it's time to wash it.
- >>
- >I cannot recommend this tennis ball trick. I washed my Marmoth Gopher
- >with a special down soap and dryed it (following the instructions) with
- >some tennis balls in a dryer. The bag wasn't usable after that (ok, it
- >is usable in normal conditions, but the Gopher should be comfortable at
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- I have never heard of using tennis balls, it was always tennis
- shoes. Something with a little more mass.
-
- --Chris
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