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    Bryce
    BPL Member

    @antigroundhogday

    Locale: Stamford, CT

    I hear they are odor proof, waterproof and lighter than a trash compactor bag for a pack liner…sounds good to me, but where do y'all buy them?

    I can't find them for sale in Google search results, only mention of how to use them. And Ebay is barren as well. Any help? thx.

    #1734754
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    Termite exterminator companies have them. They either give them to their customers, or else they sell them to their customers. The ones I got are 1 ounce each, and they are waterproof, for sure.

    –B.G.–

    #1734757
    Bryce
    BPL Member

    @antigroundhogday

    Locale: Stamford, CT

    From this link:
    http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/county/cacltrs/penfltrs/penf2010/2010atch/attach2101.pdf

    On page two it states:

    1) Types of storage bags for items requiring “double bagging” that will
    remain in the structure:
    • Vikane labeling only allows the use of Nylofume™ bags.
    • Zythor labeling allows the use of Nylofume™ bags or Fumigard bags
    • Drexel Master Fume labeling allows the use of Nylofume™ bags,
    Fumigard bags, or Master Fume bags.

    Perhaps people are buying different brands than Nylofume?

    #1734758
    Bryce
    BPL Member

    @antigroundhogday

    Locale: Stamford, CT

    How durable are they vs. trash compactor bags Bob?

    #1734764
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    I have no way of knowing that. I have no trash compactor or bag.

    –B.G.–

    #1734780
    Greg Mihalik
    Spectator

    @greg23

    Locale: Colorado

    Nylofume Bags

    $100 for 65 bags 24" x 36"

    #1734783
    Bryce
    BPL Member

    @antigroundhogday

    Locale: Stamford, CT

    ….that supply would last me for? Forever? :o

    #1734785
    Greg Mihalik
    Spectator

    @greg23

    Locale: Colorado

    Without doing any research on weight or shipping, I'm guessing some benevolent, enterprising soul could purchase and redistribute these at 10 bags for $10.

    I'd buy 20.

    #1734786
    Bryce
    BPL Member

    @antigroundhogday

    Locale: Stamford, CT

    You're probably right, but I've never seen one let alone experienced it's durability. I'd love someone who's used them to let us know how durable they are (compare them to a regular trash bag, then a compactor bag?).

    #1734793
    Greg Mihalik
    Spectator

    @greg23

    Locale: Colorado

    Bryce,
    The durability comparison with a trash compactor bag is an "apples to oranges" thing.

    These bags are best compared to OP Sacks. Which have a very high failure rate, in my experience. The seals peel off way to easily.

    Using one of these inside a stuff sack or Ursack as an odor-proof bag is the application. Not storage and haulage. With a little care (not setting the full bag down on pointy granite) I think they would do fine.

    I'm trying to locate some locally, but it is a slow process.

    #1734795
    Bryce
    BPL Member

    @antigroundhogday

    Locale: Stamford, CT

    Ok, so I misunderstood them. I read elsewhere they could replace a pack liner (compactor bag). I guess they are more fragile than that and are best for food.

    #1734798
    Greg Mihalik
    Spectator

    @greg23

    Locale: Colorado

    Nothing better for a pack liner than a trash compactor bag!

    #1734857
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    Lots of the bags that you might be dealing with are stretchy. That makes them effective as a backpack liner. Nylofume bags are not stretchy. They are more like a plain polyethylene bag, but they are gas-proof, odor-proof, and water-proof. They seem much tougher than polyethylene bags.

    –B.G.–

    #1734870
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    Nylofume bags that are 20"x36" weigh almost exactly one ounce each. That is a little different in size from what Greg mentioned.

    –B.G.–

    #1737505
    Jim Fitzgerald
    BPL Member

    @jimfitz12000

    Locale: Southern California

    I stopped at a fumigation site in my neighborhood; the work crew provided me with new Fumigard, not Nylofume bags. Crew said Fumigard bags have same properties as Nylofume bags. I have 20 excess Fumigard bags, which I will give to a backpacker in the Pasadena, California area. If interested, send me a PM.

    #1737569
    Hiking Malto
    BPL Member

    @gg-man

    gave a whole bunch of these Nylofume bags out at the BPL event at Henry Coe. There has to be a bunch of folks that have used them and can speak to the strength. They seem to me to be much stronger than normal PE bags.

    #1737572
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    It was Marc Eldridge…

    #1737575
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    "It was Marc Eldridge…"

    Yeah, I think someone was trying to put David Wage in one of them, perhaps that's where Greg got confused…..

    #1737598
    Hiking Malto
    BPL Member

    @gg-man

    Sorry Marc, I was having a senior moment and I'm not old enough to have those yet.

    #1737763
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    "They seem to me to be much stronger than normal PE bags."

    To me, they seem to be slicker. That leads to them being harder to poke a hole in.

    OTOH, slick is not a good thing if you were trying to use it as a ground cloth.

    –B.G.–

    #1763225
    Greg Mihalik
    Spectator

    @greg23

    Locale: Colorado

    I bought a box of 100, for myself and to re-distribute.

    Details can be found Here, in Gear Swap

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