dacron

• “I normally avoid the stuff, but because the dog was so pale I used that instead of the braided dacron which is black that I prefer.”

  Doggone it all

• “You would probably have to replace your cables and string on the old Whitetail and even then you're dealing with a dacron string that will stretch and change you point of impact just when you less desire it.”

  Some Expert Advice needed: I want to begin bow hunting for whitetails again and eventually, mule deer and elk.

• “The inner strands of paracord will also work, but I still have my sail repair kit from my sailing days and use those heavy dacron threads.”

  A permanent fix for loose buttons

• “He had things I had not only never imagined my grandpa wearing, I had never imagined anybody wearing them, but there they were in their dacron glories.”

  Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

• “Furniture with 8 way hand tied springs, soft down-feather or dacron covered soft foam - is difficult to find.”

  What's the Worst Advice You Ever Received? (about Mexico, that is)

• “I needed to get the string braided dacron fishing-line through the hole in the metal rod on the left.”

  Life with a touring puppeteer: 1998, Day 11

• “Whigs, U.S. Whinfield, J. R., developer of terylene (dacron)”

  Subject Index Page 82

• “Subsequent development of polymers included neoprene, arising from work of Father Julius A. Nieuwland beginning in 1906; nylon, developed by Wallace H. Carothers and first manufactured in 1938; acrilan; orlon; dynel; and dacron (called terylene by its British inventors, J.R. Whinfield and J.T. Dickson, 1941).”

  1863

• “Using sewing skills he learned as a child watching his mother, a seamstress, he developed the first dacron artificial graft to replace diseased arteries.”

  CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Medical Second Chances - January 2, 2000

• “A pile of roasted dacron and some french fried gabardine,”

  The Drapes of Roth

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