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Basic Care Instructions for your Flak Jacket
If there are no provided care instructions for your Flak Jacket, here are the basic care guidelines applicable for all body armors. But it would still be best to follow the recommended instructions provided by your manufacturer.
1. Know Your Vest or flak jacket – As much as possible; make time to get to know your vest better. This will help you take proper care on its different parts or components. Some of the materials used on the flak jacket are delicate and sensitive to some factors. Knowing your vest better will help you avoid these factors that can damage and cause degradation on the flak jacket. Moreover, knowing your vest will make you spot the changes easily. You can easily determine if these changes is brought by the manufacturer or your own doing.
2. Proper Fitting – Ensure that your flak jacket is properly fitted on you for greater comfort, ease, mobility and causes no difficulty or pain. Proper fitting also enhances the life of your flak jacket as well as the coverage for better protection. Also, make sure that your flak jacket has durable adjustable straps which you can adjust to achieve better fit.
3. Here are some of the basic things that must be avoided to make your flak jacket long lasting and sustain the ballistic performance and protection provided.
1. Know Your Vest or flak jacket – As much as possible; make time to get to know your vest better. This will help you take proper care on its different parts or components. Some of the materials used on the flak jacket are delicate and sensitive to some factors. Knowing your vest better will help you avoid these factors that can damage and cause degradation on the flak jacket. Moreover, knowing your vest will make you spot the changes easily. You can easily determine if these changes is brought by the manufacturer or your own doing.
2. Proper Fitting – Ensure that your flak jacket is properly fitted on you for greater comfort, ease, mobility and causes no difficulty or pain. Proper fitting also enhances the life of your flak jacket as well as the coverage for better protection. Also, make sure that your flak jacket has durable adjustable straps which you can adjust to achieve better fit.
3. Here are some of the basic things that must be avoided to make your flak jacket long lasting and sustain the ballistic performance and protection provided.
- Avoid exposures to some chemicals such as strong, acids, bases and oxidizers if your vest is made of Kevlar. This will degrade the Kevlar fiber used which can affect the performance. Also avoid exposures to UV light, moisture, too much heat, water and harsh detergents and chemicals.
- Avoid hanging your flak jacket because this will cause premature stretching.
- Never dry your flak jacket under the sun.
- Never immerse your flak jacket in water. Also, do not bleach your flak jacket.