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[pct-l] Re: Stitching with Down



I got my down from feathered friends in bags.  I weighed the bags and they
all were different- some 2 , some 4 ounces, etc.  I decided how much down I
wanted in each comparment.  Then taking the down bags, I compacted the down
into the two ends and emptied the middle.  I twisted the middle to seal the
contents into roughly equal parts.  I then everted one half of the bag into
another empty sack(plastic bags are okay buthave lots of static and the down
will stick to the walls) and thus I  had divided the contents.  weighed the
two bags .  I could use this techniques to produce three compartments.  It
was a process of getting  one bag for each compartment of the bag that I was
making and knowing how much I was going to stuff.

Once the bag was built (see the  http://www.newsushi.net/quilt.html, his
instructions are very detailed; making the foot box is confusing but it
requires and inside and outside structure), I then reached into the down bag
and compacted the down in my hands and brushed the down from the outside of
my hands as I putlled it out of the bag.  Do it slowly and carefully and it
is surpriseing at how little down gets into the house( no tent, I just
vacuumned right away after pinning the compartments shut.).

The problem is not stuffing the bag, but knowing how much you are stuffing
into each compartment.

Goforth


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Lissner" <mlissner@benchpro.com>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 9:15 AM
Subject: [pct-l] Re: Stitching with Down


> Thanks for the help everybody. It is much appreciated. I think I've got a
> rough plan of how I am going to go about this, but I know it is going to
get
> ugly nonetheless. I'll report back to the list once I have had my battle
of
> the down.
> -mike
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