RC: Retail source of biothane

[Teddy Lancaster <teddy@runningbear.com>]

BioPlastics Company is continually improving their products...among those
improvements are the new embossed line of material which is far more flexible and
"user friendly" than the stuff we were all using years ago.  Add a good nylon
backing (to prevent hole stretching and tearing) and you've got something that
outlasts leather and its easy to use.  It can be done...

Teddy

Farafix@aol.com wrote:

> Ed & Wendy,
>
> You might want to re-consider biothane billets.  I have a Wintec & I'm
> guessing it's biothane, or something very similar used for the billets (it's
> a nylon webbing covered by a smooth plastic type material).  The smooth
> covering gets ripped pretty easily, esp around the holes you use most, and
> then you get pieces of the plastic getting caught up in the buckles of the
> girth.  I find this type of material for the billets makes it more difficult
> to pull the girth up to the hole you want --- have to do the last 2-3 holes
> from the saddle, which requires a very calm, obedient horse!  As my previous
> saddle was leather, the billets were leather & I liked them better -- more
> flexible & easier to get saddle tightened from the ground.
> As I say, it may not be exactly biothane on the Wintec, but something similar
> that rips up worse than biothane might.  Perhaps someone else on RC can give
> more input.
>
> Good luck!
> Nancy
> Md

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