Is it simply a case of cutting the hood and zips etc off and just getting on with it?
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Down sleeping bag to quilt.
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And underquilts generally have the baffles running front to back and not across like a kip bag.
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Ok. Ill expand on 'getting on with it' a bit. It's an old ME classic 500. I was planning of running a seam along just inside the zip across the ends of the baffles and along the bottom of the hood, trimming just round the outside of this seam, then turning this over 2 or 3 times and sewing to seal. I did a similar thing to a cheap tesco bag and it seems to have worked OK.
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Yeah that'll work just fine Nick, just sew before you cut
There's some good info on hammockforums where folk have done this in the past, I'd dig out some links for you but I'm too busy at the mo
Oh yes. Been there, done that, nearly had to throw away the T shirt. :O
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+1. That'll work fine. No problem with baffles running across, it's the shape that's important and the ME is shaped to a curve IIRC. Chis is right, It's not common but that is because it's a bit more work to do the baffles that way from scratch.
This is a US commercial a Jack-r-Better quilt.
If you can add a channel and cinch cord to the top it will make a good improvement too. Nice to tuck your shoulders in and pull it snug
Yea i get that. most top quilts also have a draw cord for cinching round the shoulders. It makes a world of difference to the rating of the quilt if you get it snug
Cracking. The bag has a draft collar with an elasticated drawcord on it at the moment, I had considered losing it but now I'll do my best to keep it on. If I have to shorten it at all it won't be the most difficult thing to sort out.
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Ideal, sounds like a great donor bag. Ive been toying with converting my western mountaineering kodiak to a TQ but cant quite bring myself to do it lol
Its my 'second' bag, a few years old now but too good to bin altogether. Might pick up a couple of hundred grams of down to pump it up a bit too.
If im honest I've got enough bags, with a classic 1000, a dreamcatcher 500 and a cumulus ultralight bag which is up for sale at the mo. I can't sleep in them all.
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If im honest I've got enough bags, with a classic 1000, a dreamcatcher 500 and a cumulus ultralight bag which is up for sale at the mo. I can't sleep in them all.
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