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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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