{"id":2244,"date":"2009-11-06T21:57:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2009\/11\/06\/scarpa-boots-water-tests\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T21:57:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:57:30","slug":"scarpa-boots-water-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"Scarpa Boots water  tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2009\/11\/02\/rougham-circular-walk\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent walk<\/a> where my Scarpa ZG65 XCR boots let me down by leaking, after a morning walking in heavy rain. I returned them to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openair.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Air<\/a> who agreed they were faulty and supplied me free of charge with a new pair.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/boots.jpg\" height=\"318\" width=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought I would be smart and test the new boots before walking in them. I quickly made a test rig to hold the boots down in the sink to a depth of 120mm. Before immersion I weighed the insoles (about 28gm apiece), then repeated weighing after various immersion times. Here&#8217;s the results:-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Workbook1Sheet1-Chart-3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see the boots were pretty water tight for around 8 hours or so, after this the right boot leaked noticeably more than the left. Obviously this was a static test, in practice when walking you will get a pumping action so it will be interesting to see how they fare in the next rain walk.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the recent walk where my Scarpa ZG65 XCR boots let me down by leaking, after a morning walking in heavy rain. I returned them to Open Air who agreed they were faulty and supplied me free of charge with a new pair. I thought I would be smart and test the new boots before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}