Re: [pct-l] Slippery Floor

["Joanne Lennox" <goforth@cio.net>]

You obviously have not seen this stuff!!!!!   I hadn't either until about 2
months ago.  So far I have made numerous stuff sacks, a pack, and a tent
out of the stuff  and it still surprises me.  The Silicon is impregated
into the cloth apparently by pressure rolling - if you sandpaper it you
might be  abrading the fibers and it is diaphanous cloth ( Kurt russell
said that you could use either side of it, it is difficult to tell which
side is coated sometimes.)  That said, it is so slick, that I doubt that
the sand paper could get a purchase on it, and I don't know how you would
hold the stuff in order to sandpaper it. The reason that it is so tear
resistant probably is that nothing can catch on it.

Goforth

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> From: David B. Stockton <davstock@tiac.net>
> To: 'pct-l@backcountry.net'
> Subject: [pct-l] Slippery Floor
> Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 7:42 AM
> 
> Why not use a very, very fine grade sandpaper (600 to 1000) lightly
brushed 
> over the surface?  It shouldn't affect the waterproofedness or the
weight.
> 
> -- Dave
> 
> David B. Stockton
> davstock@tiac.net
> 
> 
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