I posted this on another site. Thought everyone would like to see this.

Carbon suit test!!!!
Here are the results of my test. I will try to give as much information as need to get the idea of how the test was done and the results.

Purpose:
To test the effectiveness of drying a carbon suit for reactivating.

Method:
I had purposfuly worn the suit the day before on a hunt for hogs. It was a very hot day and I did sweat quite a bit. The suit was then sealed in a ziplock style bag. The sample peices were taken today. I took two peices of a Scentlok leafy wear suit. Each peice measured 1inch X 1 inch. Each peice consisted of the carbon impregnated material only and none of the camoflage material. Each peice was placed in a small glass vial and was contaminated further with Ethyl benzene. This liquid was chosen because of its high boiling point. In other words it boils at 276 degrees F. One peice was placed in a drying oven ( in a chemistry lab) for 30 minutes at 200 degrees F. The other peices was left at room temperature and sealed in the glass vial for the same amount of time.

After the drying time both samples were washed in carbon disulfide. The carbon disulfide is used for a solvent or carrier and was not considered as one of the contaminents. both samples were washed for 45 minutes in a shaker. The samples were then filtered and run through a Gas chromatograph.

Results:
Results were run with a set of organic molecules being analyzed. Some of the compounds that were analyzed were from contamination while being worn and the ethyl benzene was a control. All numbers are given in parts per million. For every million parts their are that many parts of the contaminant.

Undried Sample:
Toluene 2.36 PPM
Ethyl benzene 9814 PPM
Xylene 8.83 PPM
Phenol 7.36 PPM


Dried sample
Toluene 0
Ehtyl Benzene 58.39 PPM
Xylene 0
Phenol 0

My take on this.

The Scentlok suits work and drying truely does reactivate them.

A few high points brought to light in this test.

1. A temperature of 200 F effectively removed almost all of the organic contaminants being analyzed. Now keep in mind that this oven was not agitating the material. It was just a constant temperature. A drying that is constantly moving the material should facilitate that removal of contaminants.

2. The oven temperature, which was lower than the boiling point of the ethyl benzene, removed 99.4 percent of the ethyl benzene. I chose this as a control becuase the boiling point was well above the oven temperature. Remember that these compounds do become vapor at less than the boiling point. That is what makes the drier an effective tool for reactivation.

3. The only down note on this is I have only a limited source for contamination and standards. If money and time were not an issue, then a more thorough test could be done with oils and aromatics that were present on the human body.

In light of all this. THE SUITS WORK AND CAN BE REACTIVATED!!! Be sure to question something you are not sure about. If we all listened to the guy claiming that 1700 degree was need for reactivation then we would all quite using the scent lok. ASK QUESTIONS. SEARCH FOR ANSWERS. MAKE YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS.