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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 [...]
Why Change?
In 1986 when I started making the Wiggy’s brand of sleeping bags I started with what I called Lamilite; a continuous filament fiberfill product that I laminated to the materials I chose to use for my sleeping bag product. It was the insulation which I still use today 22 years later. The company that makes [...]
They Refuse To Acknowledge Knowledge
Modacrylic is a copolymer fiber. A copolymer fiber is a made from combination of two chemicals, both petrochemicals. They have a melt point between 375 F and 425 F. I am not making this up, all one has to do, is do the research available on the wonderful internet. This is the basic material that [...]
Who Takes Responsibility?
Producing product for government contracts very often means using the materials the government contract states are the only materials that are acceptable. What if one or more of the components used are in fact detrimental to the end item user; i.e. the soldier. What if the material used does not have an immediate detrimental effect [...]
Reprint Of The March 1997 Newsletter
Since the Marine Corps are looking for a new sleeping bag I think this article appropriate to publish at this time. WiggyTESTING INSULATIONS AND THE RATINGS The March'97 issue of Backpacker magazine, the gear guide issue, reported that the sleeping bag manufacturers, Wiggy's excluded, has decided on a method to test sleeping bags on the copper man [...]