Bumper Material Poll

[RoboChair]

Citrus Circuits uses Ballistic Nylon on our bumpers.

[DarkRune]

Originally Posted by RoboChair

Citrus Circuits uses Ballistic Nylon on our bumpers.

Care to share a link to what you use? I know my team is looking into ballistic nylon, I'm curious to where teams are sourcing theirs from.

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by DarkRune

Care to share a link to what you use? I know my team is looking into ballistic nylon, I'm curious to where teams are sourcing theirs from.

http://www.rockywoods.com/Fabrics-Ki...pellent-Finish

Dark Navy and Red

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by RoboChair

http://www.rockywoods.com/Fabrics-Ki...pellent-Finish

Dark Navy and Red

How does this stuff differ from rip stop nylon?

[Mike Marandola]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

How does this stuff differ from rip stop nylon?

Ballistic nylon is thicker, not as slick, and more similar to 1000D Cordura nylon. We ran CoF tests on about 16 different fabrics, including the ballistic nylon from Rockywoods, and found that it was slicker than Cordura nylon, but not as slick as ripstop.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Mike Marandola

Ballistic nylon is thicker, not as slick, and more similar to 1000D Cordura nylon. We ran CoF tests on about 16 different fabrics, including the ballistic nylon from Rockywoods, and found that it was slicker than Cordura nylon, but not as much as ripstop.

I wrapped the bumpers in ripstop this year. We were replacing the front bumpers with regular cordura due to the nylon taking a beating at our pre scrimmage yesterday.

[Mike Marandola]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

I wrapped the bumpers in ripstop this year. We were replacing the front bumpers with regular cordura due to the nylon taking a beating at our pre scrimmage yesterday.

What ripstop did you try?

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Mike Marandola

What ripstop did you try?

http://www.joann.com/rip-stop-nylon/...+nylon&start=1

[Mike Marandola]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

http://www.joann.com/rip-stop-nylon/...+nylon&start=1

We tested that one and it's a lot thinner than some other ripstops we have. I'll try to snap an up close picture of the Joann ripstop next to ballistic nylon at our meeting tomorrow for comparison.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Mike Marandola

We tested that one and it's a lot thinner than some other ripstops we have. I'll try to snap an up close picture of the Joann ripstop next to ballistic nylon at our meeting tomorrow for comparison.

Thanks, We had no issues on the sides or back bumpers. The front were hit a lot against wood yesterday.

[Mike Marandola]

http://imgur.com/a/uoZpL

From left to right: Joann ripstop - ballistic nylon - Cordura nylon

[hectorcastillo]

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[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Mike Marandola

http://imgur.com/a/uoZpL

From left to right: Joann ripstop - ballistic nylon - Cordura nylon

Which you like the most and what's the cost difference?