ORIGINAL: cooter144
ORIGINAL: wahoohunter
Ok, I made a post on here the other day talking about why i DO think scent-lok is effective...lets see what you think..
Scent-lok is made possible through activated carbon which keeps scent from escaping, now it may seem like this mere carbon could not be that powerful, however consider this...
this same activated carbon has the power to take color out of a Dr. Pepper without removing the taste, chemical properties or smell. The same can be said for any of those things, the carbon can be made to remove anything from a substance without altering the other properties. This same carbon is often used in products that don't pass the regulations to be, say, beer. A company (that will remain nameless) wanted to producce a regular beer, however they didn't meet standards, so they use carbon to take the color our and sell it as a non-beer alcholic beverage......This same kind of thing is used in scent-lok, it is specifically designed by some of the smartest engineers in the field to remove human scent. Works well if ya ask me
Since you seem to be an expert on this...how is it possible toreactivate the carbon in the suitswith a clothesdryer?
If the truth were known, it can't be reactivated in a home dryer. Carbon traps fatty acids and oils from perspiration, sweat, greasy odors it comes in contact with. The home dryer does not get hot enough to release these non-volitile substances. If you'll note all the commercials for these "scent illimination" garments say they trap replicated human odor. They tell you if you read the test they used highly volitile substances. They did this because they can be driven out with heat from a dryer. Fatty acids, body oils and the like are totally non volitile. You'd have to set the thing on fire before any supposedly trapped oils were released. I worked with carbon and activated carbon in powdered filters and paper filters with carbon core and all carbon filters for 30 years. I was in on some extensive testing and experimenting at the International Fabricare Institute that was geared toward removing contaminents from the carbon and solvent recovery. Even with raw steam injection it's impossible. Dryers???/ PPffftttt... useless. Carbon Clothing.... one of the biggest scams in the hunting world.
P.S. Furthermore, the amount of carbon in these garments is so small. There is so much space between their little dots. Odors and vapors are just like liquids, they take the path of least resistance. More goes between their dots than could ever possibly be absorbed. They overcome a lot of the intial criticism that these garments were hot and stuffy and didn't breath by putting less and less actual carbon in them. Trust me, if you ever saw a one pound bag of activated carbon dust dropped on the floor you'd see some nasty crap that stains everything. There is onlyenough of this stuff in these garments to beable to say they have activated carbon in them. It's one very successful con with NO merit.