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Posted: 10/12/2008 4:30:05 PM EDT
| Is it harmful for gear to be left fully loaded in a closet or safe for long periods of time? I'm not talking about lying on the floor or in a box but actually hanging vertically by a badass clothing hanger with 6 to 12 fully loaded 30 round PMAGS. I'm wondering if it would somehow over stress or stretch the stitching in the gear. If it helps any all of the gear is TT and HSGI. |
Does it matter if they are hard or soft plates?? |
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Kevlar/ soft vests should not be hung(my .02), plates dont matter. Do I know people who have hung combat armor (soft lvl 3) off of a wooden cross for storage and had it still stop fragmentation - yes. Would I hang my lvl 3 concealable body armor on such a device - fuck no. Nor would I leave it exposed to UV, or just put it away wet and sweaty after a day of work. Since I seem to be on a pic kick tonight, here is how I store all my shit, lvl 3 vests and plates included. Light modular load out   God of war modular loadout   
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Nice gear and large duffel bags is a good idea that I never thought of. Noticed the sling on the rifle, I support Gear Sector also 
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for soft i.e. Kevlar yes. I don't why it would matter for hard plates, but I have steel ones, don't know about ceramic. |
I have steel plates also, can't currently afford ceramic and with my luck I would get them and drop them on a corner within 48 hours. |
Ceramics are more durable than you would think. I wore a pair in the 8x10 size for a year in the corps as psd and we even did shit like swim in them. To test them, we set them at 25 and shot them with m855. They each took 5-10 round before punch through. And these were old plates. We needed to "test" them before we ordered new 10x12's. Just dont spike then on concrete and you will be ok. |
thats one of my reasons why I did'nt get 'sexy' ceramics also   I leave my rig standing up mainly cause I have a hydro pouch attached to it ( which has it's own pro's and con's ) and I don't want all that weight laying on it. |
I googled "Airforce Duffles" and it gave me A LOT of sites with all different types of bags. Will you list a link or two to sites that have the bag you speak of. Also I will look at my local surplus store and see what kind of goodies that they have. |
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so here's what you do. get about 1440 coke rewards points (10 per 12 pack, enter 10 per day... talk to your local coke guy. he can hook you up). get the $50 ebags gift certificate. it'll get you any where from a 24" to 36" duffel. give me a minute and i'll show you the nike one i got for ALL my gear with room to go. nike got this one on the way |
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Here, the first one I found, you may be able to find them cheaper. I got mine for free... Flight crew bag |
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