What Are Spiritus Systems Products Made Of?
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Spiritus Systems products are not only versatile, modular, and easily reconfigurable, but they're built to be durable. Choosing the right materials is critical, explains Adam Holroyd from Spiritus. He's back to give Caleb (and us) an overview of the materials Spiritus gear is made of. The goal, says Adam, is to use the RIGHT material, not the cheapest material. Spiritus products are not only made in the U.S.A., but the materials used in them are also U.S.-sourced to meet the requirements of the Berry Amendment (10 USC Sec. 2533a) for being a Department of Defense supplier.
Many Spiritus products are made of genuine Cordura® nylon fabric because nylon is strong and stands up to the elements, including UV radiation. The higher a nylon fabric's "denier" number, the coarser the material. So 500 denier nylon is much softer and suppler than 1,000 denier cloth, which weighs a lot more but is not more resistant to abrasion. Spiritus employs a special process to ensure that colors stay consistent, so if you buy a Ranger Green item today, the color will match the Ranger Green item you bought last year.
Just like the Cordura® nylon, the hook-and-loop fastening material on Spiritus products is genuine Velcro®-brand product. (If the product isn't made by the Velcro® company, it cannot legally be sold as Velcro!) Spiritus carefully chooses material with very low infrared (IR) reflectivity. Your Spiritus gear isn't gonna light up and give your position away when an adversary scans the area with his NVG.
The nylon laminate material of Spiritus's chest rigs is actually laser-cut in-house (yes, they have their own laser cutter), which seals the edges and helps prevent them from fraying. The tough stuff that looks like carbon fiber on some of this gear? It's actually a laser-cut thermoplastic laminate. Spiritus actively works with mills and fabric manufacturers to develop new materials, including camouflage-patterned Velcro®.
Honestly Spiritus Systems is really appealing and it’s always great to hear about the background of the materials and what goes into it thanks guys 👍
I used to use 400D nylon fabric for making custom bags and other items. It wasn’t CORDURA but we discovered that the biggest limitation was sun exposure. UV eats nylon. For these applications, the items will last a very long time our testing showed failure only after prolonged, daily, all day exposure for a month or more. The first thing that failed was the nylon thread that we sewed our products with.
That is helpful insight. Good comment 👍
Great comment for us that think heavily about these fine minute details. I had was wondering if sun exposure would degrade nylon and other fabrics and by what degree. Your insight is helpful.
We use Cordura, and only use the best materials offered in the USA.
Funny enough, I just got the mk5 chassis after yesterday's video. I'm pretty stoked
Love my Mk5, I use it as a placard on my plate carrier.
@@CalebSavant I'm getting mine with the cheap cross straps (the H straps were out of stock) and I'm going to try it as a chest rig before using it as a placard.
I think most people didn’t know this much quality and manufacturing integrity went into their products
Great insight and explanation, thanks.
You could tell this guy was a bit nervous but I get where he is coming from. The NIR is a big part of the battlefield today, but also in the future its gonna be huge. Its hard to find a decent nylon thats compliant.
Didn't shave either.
I was wondering how they would react to the IR spectrum, I would absolutely love to be able to afford one of their amazing USA made plate carriers or chest rigs!!! 💯
Very informative.
I feel like this video was made just for me. I left a snarky D-Bag comment is the previous video about coming from a commie county. I was very wrong. Good job guys. I always try and buy American. If not American a non commie country. When all else fails you sometimes have to buy from the big C. Y’all are great Americans.
Lose the background music. Doesn’t need it. The topic and speaker are interesting enough on its own. The music is only a distraction/detraction
THANKS
I can't wait until I get a thing 2 to run on on my carrier.
That’s funny coincidence because I recently read how they grounded a bunch of our f-35s because some Chinese magnets were used instead of US manufactured magnets in some component. And as you said the components were supposed to be of US origin as per defense contract agreement.
The tension 😳
Lets hope they make them available in the european brownell web store!
I like them just because they all made in the USA supporting American company where it is sold.
Yep...
Yo Caleb, what happened to the live that popped up and was pulled down???
that was just a test for fun stuff in the future!
SO 👊
made of stuff
👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🔫🔫☕️☕️💯💯🛎
while y'all are at it why don't you let Spiritus Systems to make a rig that us low income "poor's" can afford so those of us that are wives don't agree with our hobbies are not going to have a s__t fit over spending that kind of money for just a way to ergonomically effective and practical way to carry our magazines.
I don't get why manufacturers keep treating their business relations with government as if that's a positive thing that gives them some sort of prestige... The first word that comes to my mind when I learn someone is in business with government is "corruption".
To understand why that is important to them, you need to understand the history of the company. It's more about the relationship with the actual soldier wearing the gear than anything else.
@@brownells Good point that may apply to some companies. Not all of them, though.
This company is to hard to deal with both of them shipping from brownells stinks. Tried to oder straight from spirt couldn't take my card over the phone for two slings.
Because you are a broke deadbeat that doesn't pay his bills.
@@douglaslamb7267 your a richard.