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    so the baffles run like this with gaps between each down filled baffle rather than the baffles and down being right next to each other like in the second sketch?
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    Not familiar with the instructions on Just Jeff's page but I've not seen a quilt that not down-baffle-down.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KevinDee View Post
    thanks for that link shug. im a little baffled on the baffles. In those instructions it looks like there are rather large gaps between each baffle. if the down only goes into each baffle wouldnt those gaps just become cold spots?
    It may just be a mix-up of terminology. Think of the quilt as a number of parallel tubes or chambers that are square in cross section. The sides of the tubes are the baffles. They're usually made from noseeum mesh. The tops and the bottoms of the tubes (which are the upper and lower surfaces of the quilt) are usually lightweight ripstop nylon - often 1.1 oz./yd. The down goes into the tubes, not the baffles, which are just strips of noseeum mesh connecting the top to the bottom.

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    I think the picture below from the linked article is what is confusing you. What you are looking at is only one side of the quilt with the net baffles laying down. If you were able to stand them straight up like they will be when sewn to the top you would see that they would form boxes with no gaps.




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    Quote Originally Posted by hangnout View Post
    I think the picture below from the linked article is what is confusing you. What you are looking at is only one side of the quilt with the net baffles laying down. If you were able to stand them straight up like they will be when sewn to the top you would see that they would form boxes with no gaps.
    To expand on what hangnout is describing -



    Ignore how thick the baffles are, Sketchup was giving me a hard time. This is what the quilt would look like with the baffles sewn and standing up on end - basically this drawing shows the quilt with the top removed. Hope this helps!
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    AHA! now i get it. so the baffles are more like dividing walls and not tubes filled with down. it wall makes sense now. thank you all

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    Quote Originally Posted by hangnout View Post
    I think the picture below from the linked article is what is confusing you. What you are looking at is only one side of the quilt with the net baffles laying down. If you were able to stand them straight up like they will be when sewn to the top you would see that they would form boxes with no gaps.




    yes that is the picture that was confusing me. i was thinking the down went into the noseeum netting. not the other way around. thanks a lot for clarifying.

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    most of the instructions i have seen so far (besides the ones mentioned in this thread) say to make the inner shell slightly smaller than the outter one to improve insulation once you are laying in the hammock. how much smaller should the inner layer be? and back to the baffles... is one side of the baffle sewn onto the inner shell and the other side sewn to the outter shell? that way when hung the baffles go from horizontal to vertical thus making the divide between down filled sections?
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    This thread: http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=13240 has a lot of info on making baffles, shapes of baffles, sewing underquilts, etc. Good luck!!
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    Question Recovering and reusing old down?

    Thanks for the thread and comments and link! May I ask another question?

    We inherited some old high quality down bags. Well, they were high quality, but are old, worn, ripped and duct-taped, pet-pissed, etc. I was thinking of adapting/modifying one of them to be an underquilt. Or, in the alternative, to recover the down somehow and use it in a new DIY underquilt, should I get up the nerve.

    Any advice on how to get all the down out of an old bag? Or, perhaps, how to convert the old bag into an underquilt? Though that second option would be over-kill for me, as I'm in the southeast and these bags were built for Colorado Rockies winters.

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