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Being Copied
The greatest form of flattery is when a company that wants to compete with you makes an effort to copy what you have done. A few years ago the Mountain Hardwear Company chose to copy the Wiggy’s bags by laminating a continuous filament fiberfill and making a sleeping bag. I reported their effort in [...]
Competent At Incompetence
In 1968 I became aware of the US Army Research and Development Center, (USARDC) Natick, MA. I was at the time the sales director for the first company that ever produced the continuous filament fiberfill for Celanese; it was named Polarguard. We introduced the product to Natick and they actually embraced it at the time. [...]
Made In America
We, the working class of America in my opinion can produce any product in the world and probably as good as or better than can be produced in any other country. Toyota and Honda are perfect examples of companies that set up production in America; you know how particular the Japanese market is about quality; [...]
Shake N Bake Sergeants By Jerry Horton
I recently received a copy of Shake n Bake Sergeants by Jerry Horton. During the Vietnam War we needed sergeants and the army set up a program to train men who showed leadership ability to be sergeants in 12 weeks. The term “shake n bake” came from the product that also came about in the [...]
Dehydration and Cold Weather
Dehydration in a cold environment is a far greater risk to humans than when it occurs in a temperate environment. When you are generating sweat from work or play when the weather is warm the body’s normal mechanism is a chain reaction to the sweating. The body sweats, causing the blood volume to decrease (water [...]
Do You Want To Be Warm?
Do you think the question is “dumb”? If so, just go to any outdoor activity web site and peruse the subjects discussed and you are sure to find one dealing with what clothing and/or sleeping bag works best and what about water or being wet, etc. Recently I came across the following title on [...]
Cold Sleepers?
For some time I have been told by many customers that they are cold sleepers. When I hear the statement I always ask if in fact they are sleeping; they always answer no. So there are no cold sleepers, but rather people who want to sleep but aren’t because they are cold. As a [...]
Backpacker Magazine Revisited
When I first started producing my Lamilite insulated sleeping bags I was for all intents and purposes shunned by the Backpacker “testers (?)”. They and the sleeping bag marketers whether they were the makers or the retailers were very negative with regards to my laminated insulation because the appearance of my synthetic bags did not [...]
The Making of a Sleeping Bag
Many years ago I learned when insulation was uniform surrounding an object such as a sleeping bag surrounding a human the heat retention was far superior to a sleeping bag that had high and low spots. The sleeping bags made with quilted insulation have the high and low spots so the high areas trap heat [...]
Redundancy Of Work Without
Four years ago or so the Army’s Natick Testing Laboratory started looking for flame retardant fabric for the manufacture of flame retardant underwear. The situation that spurred this need was the realization that the polyester, polypropylene or nylon underwear being worn by soldiers in combat in Iraq were receiving secondary wounds that were far more [...]