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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
"Bumper fabric" (cordura) is exactly what the low bar fabric was made of previously.
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I'm not actually confident that is the case-- the drawings don't actually specify the material (or at least, I can't seem to find the specs), and in any case, there are a couple dozen varieties of Cordura out there, and some of them are MUCH stronger than others. In particular, the difference between different deniers of Cordura and the difference between "Classic" Cordura and "Ballistic" Cordura is extremely noticeable. While I didn't do a lot of touching the fabric on the low bar while doing field reset this past weekend, it did not feel like the type of Cordura that 2220 or 2667 have used or are using for bumpers. Also worth noting is that "bumper fabric" is a pretty terrible specification-- I've seen teams use everything from sailcloth to pleather for bumpers.