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PONCHO LINERS

I have 20 years of experience in the Army surviving in cold climates. The poncho liner was a very popular because it had no comparison. The only comparable issued item was a heavy, itchy wool blanket. Now fast forward to today. If you take a look at the GI issued poncho liner and compare it with the Wiggy's poncho liner you will see it is vastly inferior. The issued liner is made in Asia somewhere and the insulation material is cheap chopped staple fiber. The Wiggy's liner uses much better continuous filament fiber (Lamilite). The Lamilite has better loft, it's stronger, warmer and dries faster.

Robert N. Bryant

Jerry,

I don’t care what they call it; it’s all bull hockey in my opinion.

I’m sticking with my Wiggy’s gear, hands down, across the board. Everything absolutely performs as you advertise (or better!).

If you look at all the Wiggy’s gear and other products you offer that I’ve acquired, you will see I have a considerable personal investment in Wiggy’s gear. That investment converts to trust and that trust is founded in use. I’ve used everything I’ve purchased and none of it has ever disappointed. I don’t know what else to say but THANK YOU!

You are a man of your word and hands down, like all Wiggy’s gear, the real deal.

Spring is here and I’ll put some things away until the colder months set in again. That’s another thing I am SO pleased with - storage- I can compact all this stuff with full faith that when it comes time to get it out again, a shake and a fluff and it’s all ready to go, no loss of performance, and right back in service!

Jerry, I send thanks and most high regards,

Jim Dearing

Because it is now in the process of being used by astronauts on the space station they the astronauts will prove it works. I suspect that coolcore and the hoho institute have given them the t-shirts.

Coolcore: Literally Sending 'Space-Age' Fabrics into Space

04/12/2018

Last week a payload was delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) by the Space-X Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo capsule, including Coolcore t-shirts that will be used and tested by astronauts over the next six months.

Coolcore, provider of chemical-free thermoregulating fabric, (fabric which is inanimate cannot thermoregulate anything) partnered with Germany’s Hohenstein Institute to develop the shirts designed to optimize astronauts’ comfort during exercise and everyday wear while on the ISS. (A t-shirt is a t-shirt, so what design could they have come up with to optimize comfort during exercise?)

Coolcore thermoregulation fabrics deliver three distinct functions — wicking, moisture circulation and regulated evaporation — that together keep users cool, dry and comfortable. (I tried to find the amount of humidity that exists in the space station, but I do think it is probably more like the atmosphere I live in in Colorado about 20 percent, but that is only a guess. That said when you exercise the moisture may very well move as a vapor through the fabric and be absorbed by the dry air before it has a chance to condense. Therefore, I guess the moisture while still a vapor will circulate in the space station atmosphere. It will not be regulated because you cannot regulate any involuntary action that the body performs.)

While many other fabrics employ chemicals and additives that wash out to achieve similar performance properties, Coolcore’s fabrics accomplishes it through its patented structure that is permanent. (The patented structure is probably the plated knitting method. If it is I wonder how they could have patented it since it has been in existence for over 25 years, but maybe I am wrong.)

In a recent independent study that tested fabric’s cooling and drying power, Coolcore’s fabric received the best scores against seven leading brands and three competing technologies.

The Coolcore shirts on the ISS are part of the SPACETEX-2 project in the upcoming European Space Agency “Horizons Mission” developed by a research team of the Hohenstein Institute, the Charité Berlin and the German Aerospace Center. German astronaut Alexander Gerst will be conducting dedicated exercise sessions to better understand the effects of weightlessness on perspiration, sweat evaporation and the resulting crew comfort. Gerst, who spent 166 days on the ISS in 2014, will also be evaluating how Coolcore’s advanced fabric helps manage body heat build-up.

(Spacetex-2 is the deal about flying to Mars. Maybe if the testing were done outside of a laboratory the results would be different, however, even if they were all of the materials would actually not perform for the purpose but would all perform equally bad. Is the German astronaut going to go back to the space station to do all of the testing? Once again coolcore states that they think [they really don’t] that they can manage body heat and evaluate that normal body action. I am quite sure that coolcore’s fabrics are not advanced, and if they are in what way?

The data captured during the SPACETEX-2 experiments will help improve cooling fabrics for not only better thermal comfort in space, but also in extreme environments on earth.

(The best cooling fabric known to mankind happens to be cotton and since the inception of its use maybe 10,000 years ago nothing has come along to replace it. The crew of the spacetex-2 can do all the experiments they want on the way to mars and during their experiments they will learn that they should have taken 100 percent cotton garments to keep cool. As for use in extreme environments on earth, what you do not want is any of the coolcore fabric made garments.)

Back on earth, Coolcore’s fabric technology is used by leading brands including Cabela’s, L.L. Bean, Gillz Performance Fishing, Athleta, Klim, Dickies, and more.

(I looked at Cabelas and found they sell a coolcore dog bed, as for Bean, Athleta, Dickies, no matches found. Gillz makes fishing stuff and they show two long sleeve t-shirts, and Klim a company that makes motor cycle clothing has 6 under garments. It is not unusual for some companies to exaggerate their customer base especially when the article such as this one is published to the trade and as far as I know not the general public. So maybe they want to impress other companies like North Face to buy from them.

Amazing what some people will do to sell their product.)