I vote the 350 or 363. Hope that my laptop display will not fool me 🙂

Generally all three columns from right looks best for me. Left side is not very natural on my screen.

Btw with my blue packraft I found an interesting thing. In digital photos it looks much brighter compared to real world eye view.

I will order materials directly from you for my next packraft. Quite soon, I think.

My extreme textil packaft floats and works but for more serious wilderness use I will make better quality raft. I don’t want count how many hours I struggled with sealing that fabric… The good thing is that now I know the making process, tools etc.…[Read more]

I’m not sure, but I have feeling that for 40den and 210den the melting point seems to be quite same. Could it be possible?

1. bulk 40W soldering iron (“absolutely too hot”, cost 8 eur)
2. light bulb dimmer 0-100% (cost 7 eur)
3. tool tip from copper tube (quite heavy tip for more stable tip temperature)
4. spare soldering iron tips for different shape sealing tips (3 eur, not needed)

Here in Finland the dimmer can…[Read more]

1. bulk 40W soldering iron (“absolutely too hot”, cost 8 eur)
2. light bulb dimmer 0-100% (cost 7 eur)
3. tool tip from copper tube (quite heavy tip for more stable tip temperature)
4. spare soldering iron tips for different shape sealing tips (3 eur, not needed)

Here in Finland the dimmer can…[Read more]

Thanks Matt for your work on http://www.diypackraft.com
I think this must be the best outdoor & diy web page of this year!

I got blue 210den nylon tafetta, transparent TPU-coating, 275g/sqm fabric from
http://www.extremtextil.de for my packraft.

For inflation bag I got 40den nylon, TPU-coated one side, 70g/sqm from same source.

I found that it was challenging (read: also very slow) to make make good bond with 210D fabric. I had same feelings like Chris.

My…[Read more]