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Make Your Own Gear: Five Yards to SuperUltraLight Part 2, Stuff Sack


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    Carol Crooker
    BPL Member

    @cmcrooker

    Locale: Desert Southwest, USA
    #1368718
    Frank Perkins
    Member

    @fperkins

    Locale: North East

    Cool article, two things:

    1) Can the cost be changed to only make the item identified in the article?

    2) Mig asked in part I of the article where to buy Spinnaker online. Unfortunately, after searching through the forums, I can’t find any online sources. Anyone have a website that’s selling it online?

    #1368732
    David Olsen
    Spectator

    @oware

    Locale: Steptoe Butte

    I have some to sell as well as other
    similar fabrics.

    another possible source
    http://www.therainshed.com/

    Dave

    owareusa.com

    #1369076
    Jay Ham
    Member

    @jham

    Locale: Southwest

    Frank,

    Dave at Oware is great to deal with, and has the fabric. I would definately use him for a source.

    Unfortunately, making a single stuff sack is less economical because you have to buy minimum quantities of fabric and other materials, and shipping cost won’t be reduced much. I usually make my stuff sacks from leftover material purchased for other projects. If you wanted to make several stuff sacks, your cost per sack goes down considerably. With a yard of Spinnaker, you could make as many as 10 small stuff sacks, or a fewer combination of larger and smaller, for about $40.

    Jay
    MYOG

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    Nick K
    BPL Member

    @nkline

    Locale: Northeast U.S.

    I noticed the last post was made about two years ago. Since I am considering making the gear discussed in this project, I was wondering if there have been updates on the types of fabric to use and the sources to obtain them.

    Other recommendations and/or lessons learned on this project are appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Nick

    #1468387
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    Not many changes in the last year or so.

    Cheers

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    Dan @ Durston Gear
    BPL Member

    @dandydan

    Locale: Canadian Rockies

    Thru-Hiker.com has a stuff sack kit that is an economical way to obtain the necessary materials. The 'premium' kit includes 0.7oz SpinTex, 5 small cord locks and ample draw string (although I do wish it was lighter spectra cord). You can buy this for $19.95 and make 5 stuff sacks with it. With some extra cord and cord locks you could make a lot more than 5 sacks if they were small ones.

    So far I have made a small sack (about 2L) for my 'essentials' and another similarly sized sack for my pot. Both weigh 6-7g (0.2 to 0.25oz). I've also make a sack for my stakes that weighs 2g (0.1oz). I have a lot of fabric left (about 75% of it). I could definitely make some bigger sacks but I'm a bit nervous about using this material for higher stress applications like a food bag.

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