[at-l] making gear

[jmayer@rochester.rr.com (Jim Mayer)]

Hopeful,

Thought you might find this interesting:

    http://www.warmlite.com/seams.htm

He tends to recommend hot-cutting of seams, and suggests that if you do so
there is little reason to fold them over to hid the edges.

-- Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: <hopefl@juno.com>
To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 2:21 AM
Subject: [at-l] making gear


> I found some rip stop nylon at a cloth store so I got some for a project
> I've had in mind. Well, I never had any idea that sewing is so
> complicated. Most of what I needed to learn, the lady at the cloth store
> told me about. For example there is nylon string to go with the cloth I
> bought. For some reason is sews better. Also I got special needles that
> will fit my wife's sewing machine. These special needles are made for
> nylon cloth.
>
> Well, the next problem was cutting the nylon so it doesn't unravel on the
> edge. Much to my dismay, my wife told me there is a special sewing device
> just for edges that prevent unravelling. Naturally, these are very
> expensive. But not to be halted in my quest to be not only a well
> equipped hiker but also good and cheap, I began to think of ways to
> prevent unravelling. I recalled reading about the Nomad tents, that the
> parts are cut from nylon with a heated blade of some sort. In my
> assortment of tools there is no heated blade but I do have a soldering
> iron which has a nice pointed tip.
>
> I am pleased to report that my soldering iron cuts the rip stop nylon and
> melts the edges very neatly. I will be interest to see how well the edges
> keep after some use. My hope is that once the parts are sewn together
> there will not be much chance for the edges to wear against anything. I
> let ya'll know how the project, a gear bag to go outside my pack, turns
> out.  Hopeful
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