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04-09-2009, 10:16 AM
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I've read several posts about the potential of non-wool kilts to catch on fire. (from accidental exposure to open flame presumably) Are there any documented cases of this? If so, is it the acrylic or the PV, or both?
(posted this in non-traditional because of the non-traditional materials)
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04-09-2009, 10:20 AM
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It's the acrylic.
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04-09-2009, 10:26 AM
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04-09-2009, 10:48 AM
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I'm going to PM you a link to another kilt forum (not completely family-friendly forum, so no direct link) where a user describes and shows his acrylic kilt igniting from -- his story -- one drop of melting polypro webbing that was being sealed with a butane torch.
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04-09-2009, 05:13 PM
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I did my own little "burn test" a while ago: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/b...x.html?t=31698
No acrylic, but PV and a few different weaves of wool.
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04-09-2009, 06:45 PM
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Scary,very scary indeed!
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04-10-2009, 01:04 AM
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Pro: It’s true, and something to be aware of.
Con: Sometimes it's an excuse to to bash non-wool kilts.
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In my opinion, yet another very good reason for having your kilt made from wool.
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04-10-2009, 09:26 PM
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A kilt aflame would be non-traditional attire.
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I own five kilts and have been wearing them since 2001. One is a very well made and expensive hand made wool kilt that is well constructed and looks fantastic, the other four are the acrylic variety - they are well constructed and look fantastic and all four (together) cost less then the wool.
I wear the wool when I am going to weddings, burns dinners ect. The others I wear to games, fairs, ren fests, or pub crawling.
I would not be welding, building a camp fire, or cooking next to an open flame in any of them - mainly because I would not want to ruin any of them.
I have never caught fire in my less expensive kilts, of course I dont stand directly over or next to open flame (even in my wool kilt or while wearing jeans) and I have yet to run into stray flames as I walk around at events, and I have never been hit by lighting.
Me thinks this is much too do about nothing. While I understand that acrylic kilts will burn, (so will many things we wear) most folks are not going to put themselves in a position to burst into flames.
A google search of "Kilts on fire" - the first article about a kilt on fire comes from the year 1896 - my bet it that it was not a pakistani kilt http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...6E9C94679ED7CF
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