On Mon, 9 Aug 1999 rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com wrote: > > If you are looking for some figure in years, I would say that a PFD that > is over six years old has probably beaten the dust in its > effectiveness. But this may occur sooner. > It certainly does. In France there is a legal directive restricting the use of a PFD to two years, because the foam looses buoyancy. Of course nobody here follows that directive to the letter. But it is a reminder that after two years the performance of your PFD is certainly somehow diminished. In the safety inspections at the Championats de France competitions they test the PFDs by fixing a weight on it and puttint it into water. If it floats up, it's ok. Unfortunately I can't tell how many KGs they attach to a 70-Newton PFD. Reinhold Weber *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Aug 10 1999 - 07:49:31 PDT
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