{"id":13483,"date":"2013-12-24T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=13483"},"modified":"2013-12-02T17:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T00:48:13","slug":"heat-sealable-packcloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/heat-sealable-packcloth\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Sealable Packcloth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used heat sealable packcloth to make scuba bag prototypes. I used the heat sealable type because I didn&#8217;t want to sew a bunch of different patterns while trying them out. A regular household iron seals it fine but I used a sealing iron for RC plane wings to add precision. <\/p>\n<p>The seam is strong and water tight. I&#8217;d think heavy duty stitching would be stronger, but for many purposes the heat seal is strong enough. Since it&#8217;s just regular packcloth with a shiny glue side added, it has the same durability expected from packcloth. As a test I filled a bag with about a gallon of water and hung it from the garage ceiling.  After several months it still didn&#8217;t leak. I&#8217;ve also pulled on seams hard enough to turn my knuckles white without it tearing, though my suspicion is that if I tried hard enough I could rip it with the right leverage.<\/p>\n<p>The material is pricey compared to regular packcloth, but it saves time on sewing and lets those that don&#8217;t know how to sew work with a tough fabric.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No-sew heavy duty fabric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13483"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13641,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483\/revisions\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}