Repairs
The latest big rando bag is a repair job on the first big rando bag I made for someone else; that one had a few misfeatures (didn’t hem the pockets, so they ripped out, and I stitched the carcass together with the webbing, which ended up ripping apart under load) so I eventually pried the bag out of Ed’s hands, ripped almost all of the seams out (leaving only the front pocket(s) sewn,) then sewed it back together in a more durable way.
Some of the enhancements I made this time around were
- I ripped out the plastic liner and used sew-in interfacing for structure,
- it’s now fully lined (yellow rip-stop nylon) with a removable lining,
- a plastic mapcase on top, with
- two d-rings to clip external mapcases to, and
- velcro along the sides so the velcroed map envelope I sewed for the first iteration of the bag will still work (as seen stuck to the velcro in the picture here.)
- there’s a tombstone loop on the back rear,
- four velcro hold-down straps spaced correctly for Nitto/VO front racks,
- and the stretch cord and button closures have been replaced with webbing and sidelock latches.
It’s a little bit smaller than it used to be, because I squoze the dimensions to leave ½ inch of fabric on the outside of the box seams (taped over, but this time I sewed the tape in as a separate step!)
There are a few pictures of the finished product, too. Cross fingers that it will not need service until it’s gotten so old that the fabric is disintegrating!