30 years and counting

WHAT OTHER COMPANY MAKES A SLEEPING BAG USEABLE FOE 30 PLUS YEARS?

30 plus years and still going strong

30 plus years ago I ordered several bags from Wiggys to test out for the Spec Ops unit I was with. The unit decided not to go with the Wiggys bag much to my and several others dissatisfaction. Still have one of those bags and other than some fading it is still going strong. I was told later that the commander that decided against the bags wished he had gone with them. I have the best sleeping bag I have ever owned, and I have owned a bunch of different bags. You can’t go wrong with Wiggys

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I understand the writer is not using his name, probably because of his being part of Spec  Ops.  This is not the only time an upper command because the commander decided not to get a Wiggy bag. You just can’t teach STUPID!

TESTING SLEEPING BAGS

For years people have asked how my sleeping bags were tested or people would want to get a bag from me to test so they could tell the readers of their web site about Wiggy bags. 

Those who ask I tell they have been tested by users in the field and the others are told to buy the bag, which they do not do.

In 1992 I believe I was asked to make a bag for use in Antarctic by the US military and the Russian military. They were going on a 2-mile square ice field [I do not know how best to describe it] that was now drifting in the Weddle Sea.  

That became the field test for the Antarctic sleeping bag that we make today. It has not changed since inception in 1992.

Aside from the 32 Antarctic bags originally made shortly there after we received a call from the company that handles supplying McMurdo station with equipment, they ordered them and after a few years they started ordering the Hunter version Antarctic bag with the Nautilus over bag. They have several hundred in use.

Around the same time in the early 1990’s I was contacted by the US Airforce to supply the training base at Greely, Alaska where they do arctic training. They too have been using them for 25 plus years.

So, with all of these organizations using that same bag at the bottom of the world and top why do I have to test them.

Af far as the rest of the sleeping bags made by Wiggy’s they have been used by thousand of people in all temperature ranges and proven to perform at the noted temperature published on each sleeping bag or lower. I rate the temperatures conservatively.

The reality is that I do not have to go through testing on machines like the copper manikin or any other type of machines, nor do I need so called experienced outdoorsman testing my sleeping bags.

ZIPPERS

Last week a guy called and asked if I use coil zippers. I say no I use #10 molded zippers. He then tells me he never met a coil zipper he likes, and he has a light weight so called sleeping bag from a British manufacturer that gave him fits because the coil zipper kept getting caught in the fabric and eventually broke. This fellow ultimately ordered a Backpacker bags.

Historically when I was introduced to the sleeping bag industry it was 1968 when I was trying to sell the original Lamilite to the manufacturers because they were all adding Polar Guard to their line of synthetic bags. I was unsuccessful but I learned about the #10 molded tooth zipper that was used by all of them.

My first original bag has one in it. Years later when I decided to become a sleeping bag manufacturer, I automatically started using the #10 molded tooth zipper.

I wasn’t in business too long when I noted that the manufacturers were no longer using the #10 molded tooth zippers but coil zippers. I learned that people were having problems with them as was told to me last week by this fellow.

It has been 30 years or longer since these companies switched to the coil zippers and stayed with them regardless of the problems.