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    HELP!! Need to Down Proof my Down Proof ripstop

    Friends, I need your help.

    I made a top quilt out of 1.1 Down Proof ripstop. I used two colors (Green \ Brown), but the brown (supposedly down-proof) ripstop is allowing down to escape through the material.

    1. Is there anyway to "Down Proof" 1.1 calendared ripstop material?
    2. Any cleaver fixes for replacing the bad fabric?
    3. What would happen if I sewed another layer of down-proofed ripstop over this one?


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    Can't help with a fix, but would really like to know where the brown came from.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jeffjenn View Post
    Can't help with a fix, but would really like to know where the brown came from.
    +1 on where it came from.

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    I am waiting for the vendor to get back to me. So far, I have purchased a lot of material from this place with very good success.

    Right now I would like to focus on a resolution. Any ideas?

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    from what i know there is no real way to fix it.... it might stop after some use
    but i know one vendor has 2 types of brown in ... one DP and one not DP ...
    maybe you clicked on the wrong one or got sent the wrong stuff ?
    or it could be just bleeding some... i mean how bad is it
    if it's just one here or there i wouldn't worry about it... if it's a lot then i would
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    Is the color brown or coyote brown?

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    Per the vendor site it is Coyote Brown - Downproof. ..... Is brown not downproof?

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    I can guess at the vendor, and if so, olive brown is not down proof, but coyote brown is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WLMiller54 View Post
    I am waiting for the vendor to get back to me. So far, I have purchased a lot of material from this place with very good success.

    Right now I would like to focus on a resolution. Any ideas?

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    Maybe sealing it with thinned sil? Not sure how to apply it though, or how much it would glue the down to the fabric...
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    Why not say who the vendor is?

    Mistakes are made, sometimes by the customer, sometimes by the retailer. In the latter case, his margin should be sufficient to cover mistakes and losses.

    (There is an established outdoor fabric vendor who is very explicit about where responsibility rests for testing "down-proofness" of a particular synthetic fill.)

    Why should other HF members risk getting fabric unsuitable to their purpose? Where's the loyalty to the membership?

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