Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19981003130321.006cec84@popmail.skypoint.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 13:03:21 -0500
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: wayne steffens <wsteffen@skypoint.com>
Subject: Re: baidarka [] canvas
In-Reply-To: <010e01bded8a$a4cfe640$c2e0490c@packard-bell>
At 10:24 PM 10/1/98 -0000, you wrote:
>Has anybody tried using treated cotton canvas? The one I'm thinking of used
>to be called (for about 60 years) Vivatex, then "Sunforger" (somebody in
>marketing lost their mind, and - I hope - their job) and now Otis Permasol.
>It is treated with a mildew preventative.
One of the shops I talked to tried to get me interested in treated canvas
but I said-"eeeuuuewwwww, yucky mildew chemicals". then the guy said they
were instructed to use masks when handling untreated cloth to avoid
inhaling fibers...I guess even cotton isnt safe anymore.
Wayne