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walking boots-- which are good?
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:21:06 -0000, Gordon wrote:
Coupled with that is the fact that my preferred material is HALF the price of Gore-Tex and works as well if not better. Which material is that, please? -- Peter. 2x4 - thick plank; 4x4 - two of 'em. |
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walking boots-- which are good?
"PeterC" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:21:06 -0000, Gordon wrote: Coupled with that is the fact that my preferred material is HALF the price of Gore-Tex and works as well if not better. Which material is that, please? It's a Pertex 6 outer shell with a "hydrophilic PU fully taped laminate" liner. That's all it says. It's actually a Rab Downpour Mountain Guide jacket which I've had now for 15 years....it cost half the price of an equivalently-featured Gore-Tex jacket back in the early 90's...it's got two horizontal hip pockets with gusset and poppered flaps, two zipped chest pockets, a hidden zipped map pocket, a hood with volume adjustment large enough to cover a helmet and a velcro and poppered front fastening over a double zip and reinforced patches on elbows and shoulders.. |
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walking boots-- which are good?
Gordon wrote:
"PeterC" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:21:06 -0000, Gordon wrote: Coupled with that is the fact that my preferred material is HALF the price of Gore-Tex and works as well if not better. Which material is that, please? It's a Pertex 6 outer shell with a "hydrophilic PU fully taped laminate" liner. That's all it says. It's actually a Rab Downpour Mountain Guide jacket which I've had now for 15 years.... Hey ho, Rab's "Downpour" series Ceased To Be a few years ago now. Rab's waterproofs these days are split between a waterproof flavour of Pertex ("Shield", for the lightest models) and eVent. eVent has been tested as quite a bit more breathable than GoreTex, even the latest Pro-Shell versions. The original Goretex didn't have a PU smear over the microporous membrane and that led to contamination problems that caused it to leak. Subsequent versions introduced the PU smear which substantially reduced the breathability (the original version lives on in modified form as Windstopper). The eVent folks have come up with another way of preventing contamination with clever coating of the internal microporous structure (IIRC) rather than putting a thin barrier over the front of it so there's less stuff getting in the way of exiting vapour. According to accounts I've read it does need keeping clean(ish) to work properly, but now has a good track record in the Real World and is widely praised by users as seeming much less clammy than any given flavour of Goretex. Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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walking boots-- which are good?
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:47:55 -0000, Gordon wrote:
"PeterC" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:21:06 -0000, Gordon wrote: Coupled with that is the fact that my preferred material is HALF the price of Gore-Tex and works as well if not better. Which material is that, please? It's a Pertex 6 outer shell with a "hydrophilic PU fully taped laminate" liner. That's all it says. It's actually a Rab Downpour Mountain Guide jacket which I've had now for 15 years....it cost half the price of an equivalently-featured Gore-Tex jacket back in the early 90's...it's got two horizontal hip pockets with gusset and poppered flaps, two zipped chest pockets, a hidden zipped map pocket, a hood with volume adjustment large enough to cover a helmet and a velcro and poppered front fastening over a double zip and reinforced patches on elbows and shoulders.. Sounds bombproof! I've an old jacket that's shower-resistant and that's PU inside nylon, so doesn't transpire too well. -- Peter. 2x4 - thick plank; 4x4 - two of 'em. |
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walking boots-- which are good?
"PeterC" wrote in message ... On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:47:55 -0000, Gordon wrote: "PeterC" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:21:06 -0000, Gordon wrote: Coupled with that is the fact that my preferred material is HALF the price of Gore-Tex and works as well if not better. Which material is that, please? It's a Pertex 6 outer shell with a "hydrophilic PU fully taped laminate" liner. That's all it says. It's actually a Rab Downpour Mountain Guide jacket which I've had now for 15 years....it cost half the price of an equivalently-featured Gore-Tex jacket back in the early 90's...it's got two horizontal hip pockets with gusset and poppered flaps, two zipped chest pockets, a hidden zipped map pocket, a hood with volume adjustment large enough to cover a helmet and a velcro and poppered front fastening over a double zip and reinforced patches on elbows and shoulders.. Sounds bombproof! I've an old jacket that's shower-resistant and that's PU inside nylon, so doesn't transpire too well. Well it's done me good service and is still in pretty good nick. RAB replaced the velcro on the front free of charge last year (it has a life-time guarantee) and I wash it with Nickwax TX direct once or twice a year depending on how much it's been used to re-proof the Pertex. |
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