
Originally Posted by
DemostiX
My question is only about what you exclude in your second paragraph, the part that is acting as rails. I can understand that only makers for gram-counters, a Z-packs, would swap out the length of shock cord in the channel for a length of something lighter, but that is exactly what I am driving at, if an ounce can be saved and nothing at all lost. (I might even bury the shock cord in a nice continous splice.)
I'm much taken with your observation-- with others -- of the sealing problem of UQ's. I'm trying to appreciate just what shock cord is supposed to do, as obliquely as the forces of the UQ suspension are applied. Before butchering a fine continuous stretch of shock cord on a full length UQ, I wondered what functionality I'd be giving up.
RAB closes the stuff sack for the Quantum top-bag with shock cord, including a very nice (or over-engineered) stress-stopper and then a keeper for that stress-stopper. Wow, no expense spared. Then, of the shock cord, I wondered: "Why? What need does this meet? In my limited experience, I haven't noticed shock cord on a stuff sack closure before. What did I miss out on? "
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