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What do the different ratings mean?

Could someone please explain what the different ratings, such as "600D ripstop" or "1200D" for polyester fabric mean? 600D 1200D "D" represents Denier,(indirect yarn count ) which denotes the thickness of the yarn. 600D implies -- 9 meters of yarn weigh 600 grams 1200D implies- 9 meters of yarn weigh 1200 grams —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.170.11.251 (talk) 14:56, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where is it produced?

This says nothing about where it is produced. Please get more information.Eddy Dude 04:30, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fire Rating

I'm curious to know if polyester products will melt into my skin during a fire, or protect me from flames like wool would. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.58.234.53 (talk) 10:34, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Polyester clothing would melt to your skin, like plastic. In general, natural fibres (like cotton, linen, wool etc) tend to be more fire-resistant than synthetic ones (like polyester, nylon, rayon, etc), except sometimes (like kevlar, neoprene etc). Fire performers wear 100% cotton. --24.250.22.46 (talk) 00:14, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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NGC/Escape from technology, mentioned reinforced glasfibre(?) polyester. That would not catch fire despite being subjected to directed flame for substantial time. It's used in oil platform escape boats. Electron9 (talk) 01:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Manufacture

I just removed the following from the front of the article, but I think the point being made is legitimate and belongs here. jhawkinson (talk) 13:48, 15 March 2008 (UTC):[reply]

I wanna no what polyester is made from. what part it is made from if it has a latin name or not and what its strengths are! but this site isnt telling me! from tyler paige smith —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.3.80.169 (talk • contribs) 11:10, 15 March 2008

At what temperature does polyester melt? This was not given in the disciption of its properties. HRH 10/30/08

What is Siliconized Polyester? I am seeing a number of products using this but cannot find any information on it. TL 05/01/10

Blatant copying and pasting

A large portion of this article save for the introductory paragraph appears to be a straight copy and paste. Also references 4 and 5 are not specific cites but just websites. Meowist (talk) 05:32, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

At what temperature does polyester melt?

Article Clarity

To a layman such as myself, most of this article makes no sense. I can't get any information out of it if I don't understand it. It needs to be rewritten in simpler terms. I would change it myself, but I don't really know much about polyester. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.200.253.150 (talk) 21:00, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Response: That's common to most Wikipedia articles touching on an even slightly technical subject. What I usually do is just read the first section and then skip it at the point where it starts getting so technical that only an expert could understand it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TimMagic (talk • contribs) 18:38, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cross-linked polyester (Glyptal resin)

According to Pavia's Introduction to Organic Laboratory Techniques, a cross-linked polyester is also called a "Glyptal resin". (page 407-8). For some reason, "Glyptal" redirects to a list of characters from an Asimov novel. I'm changing it to redirect to this article. Fuzzform (talk) 22:53, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

History (Development and Use) of polyester

I referenced this entry to find out about the development and history of use of polyesters (and specifically synthetic polyesters) but found little info here - perhaps this article could be expanded to cover these also? Zenira (talk) 05:44, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oi, you lot! WHEN was the stuff introduced? Who invented it? Doesn't anyone know? I see no HISTORY here! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.83.99.27 (talk) 13:27, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Glyptal

Glyptal redirects here, but what is it? Webster says

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Resin formed by condensation of polyhydric alcohols with polybasic acids. They 
usually contain fatty acids as well(oil-modified alkyds). Source: European Union.

glyptal.com says they´re a 1985 spin-off of the liquids research division of G.E. Is it a brand name? --Maxus96 (talk) 22:45, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure why it redirects here. I know that it is a common brandname for an engine block coating commonly applied to the internal surfaces of the oil cavity (at least in the US). Wizard191 (talk) 14:20, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Btw., i found the name in rp Feynmans book "surely you´re jokin", where he says it was sticking all over the place (of a cyclotron) from people using it to fix the vacuum. --Maxus96 (talk) 20:38, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is something two points up on this page. Crosslinked polyester resin sounds sensible, if people use it to glue up their vacuum apperatures. Probably someone should just change the redirect to a short disambiguation. --Maxus96 (talk) 02:45, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I converted glyptal is a disambig page. Wizard191 (talk) 18:03, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fabric

It would be nice to have some information about the different types of polyester yarns used in fabrics for clothing. What process makes one softer than another. What properties can be affected by the chemical processing? Polyester used in fabric has gotten a lot better in recent years. What is behind that development?