Let’s drop some acid… on our harnesses and see what happens to them.
This is what equipment manufacturer Black Diamond said to themselves after a customer returned a harness that just kind of blew apart at the seams. The short version of the results is that hydrochloric acid is REALLY bad for nylon. To see how Black Diamond came to that conclusion, check out the writeup that they did:
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WOW! Bleach failed at half the rating of the harness. Granted it was soaked overnight, but that is often the cleaning agent of choice around the firehouse. As for the other acids……really when are you going to have your equipment exposed to acid? OK well there was that one drill in that tank but I’m sure that will never happen again.