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Is down coming out of the jacket normal? My wife has had her...
By nuts
Ranked #1677 - Women's Down Jackets
March 22, 2011
Is down coming out of the jacket normal?
My wife has had her jacket for two months and loves it. However she has noticed that down has been coming out of the jacket in different spots. Sometimes there is down coming out of the seems, and sometimes just in the middle of the jacket. She has taken great care of it. The good news is Backcountry did the exchange, but my question is, should I expect the replacement to have the same problem?
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By Peter Kaminski
Ranked #73 - Women's Down Jackets
March 22, 2011
Yes. With high quality down and lightweight shell materials, little down clusters will poke through every so often. When they do so, grab them from the other side of the baffle and pull them back into it. Afterwards, work the material around it to help tighten the fibers where it was poking through. If you can't get the cluster back into the baffle, let it fall out on its own and then work the material. Whatever you do - don't pull the clusters out. That makes the hole bigger and it won't be able to tighten back down.
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