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What does it mean when a manufacturer of wings says: 22 mil urethane bladder thickness?
Cant be 22 millimeters... ????
Cant be 22 millimeters... ????
thickness of bladder
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mikey3091
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1 millimeter = 39.3700787401575 mil
A "mil" is actually a "milli-inch" (so to speak), i.e. a thousandth of an inch, so the bladder is made of urethane sheet 0.022 inches thick.
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so your saying the 22 mil bladder is thinner than the normal ones? How much of a difference is it?
Actually, it's the other way around. 22 mil is the thicker option:
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thank you
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This is how thick that 22 mil bladder is. Stupid/funny/scary story here:
Reattaching my inflator hose yesterday , I peek through the valve into the darkness of the wing. Oh damn! I see nothing but thick, black ballistic nylon and no bladder. It's somehow come disconnected from the valve, it's down inside the wing somewhere, and I'm going to have to fish it out and figure out how to reattach it (with no zipper, mind you)!
But feeling around with my finger I still feel a slippery layer of urethane in there somewhere, all the way up to the valve. So what gives? Is there an additional ballistic nylon bag INSIDE the bladder in a "turducken" construction of some sort? Don't know - let's just reattach the inflator hose* and see what happens. Sure enough, it inflates and holds air exactly as designed.
Duh. That IS the bladder I saw and felt. It is so thick and totally black (yeah, the bladder itself is black, not clear) that I mistook it for another layer of nylon. Good stuff, DSS!
bk (posting here a lot lately as a proud new DSS owner)
*As mentioned in this thread, I've been attaching my hose a click or two to the left - hope that's ok.
Reattaching my inflator hose yesterday , I peek through the valve into the darkness of the wing. Oh damn! I see nothing but thick, black ballistic nylon and no bladder. It's somehow come disconnected from the valve, it's down inside the wing somewhere, and I'm going to have to fish it out and figure out how to reattach it (with no zipper, mind you)!
But feeling around with my finger I still feel a slippery layer of urethane in there somewhere, all the way up to the valve. So what gives? Is there an additional ballistic nylon bag INSIDE the bladder in a "turducken" construction of some sort? Don't know - let's just reattach the inflator hose* and see what happens. Sure enough, it inflates and holds air exactly as designed.
Duh. That IS the bladder I saw and felt. It is so thick and totally black (yeah, the bladder itself is black, not clear) that I mistook it for another layer of nylon. Good stuff, DSS!
bk (posting here a lot lately as a proud new DSS owner)
*As mentioned in this thread, I've been attaching my hose a click or two to the left - hope that's ok.
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