Mike J.
Master Member
Bulking Up
Steve's pockets on the cartridge belt appear to be nicely filled out by vaguely rectangular forms, and his left thigh pocket on his pants is quite full of ... something. I wanted to stuff my pockets & pouches as well. I wanted something light, cheap, and waterproof or water resistant (so it didn't absorb moisture if I got sweaty or washed the parts & hung them up to dry).
I thought at first about wads of aluminum foil, but that's porous, and might trap water in it. Then I realized that styrofoam would fit the bill nicely. In retrospect, I should have picked up a square of that hard insulation foam from the hardware store, but I went to the craft store instead and bought 2 dozen small styrofoam spheres and a larger hemisphere. The styrofoam spheres are about the size of a ping pong ball, and two of them stuff the belt pockets nicely. With 10 pockets on the belt, and 24 spheres, I luckily had some left over to stuff the compass pouches as well. The hemisphere should fill out the thigh pants pocket well.
In retrospect, it may have been cheaper to simply buy ping pong balls from the dollar store, or a 2 foot square of insulation foam, but that's why I'm writing this: so you don't have to make the mistakes I did.
-MJ
Steve's pockets on the cartridge belt appear to be nicely filled out by vaguely rectangular forms, and his left thigh pocket on his pants is quite full of ... something. I wanted to stuff my pockets & pouches as well. I wanted something light, cheap, and waterproof or water resistant (so it didn't absorb moisture if I got sweaty or washed the parts & hung them up to dry).
I thought at first about wads of aluminum foil, but that's porous, and might trap water in it. Then I realized that styrofoam would fit the bill nicely. In retrospect, I should have picked up a square of that hard insulation foam from the hardware store, but I went to the craft store instead and bought 2 dozen small styrofoam spheres and a larger hemisphere. The styrofoam spheres are about the size of a ping pong ball, and two of them stuff the belt pockets nicely. With 10 pockets on the belt, and 24 spheres, I luckily had some left over to stuff the compass pouches as well. The hemisphere should fill out the thigh pants pocket well.
In retrospect, it may have been cheaper to simply buy ping pong balls from the dollar store, or a 2 foot square of insulation foam, but that's why I'm writing this: so you don't have to make the mistakes I did.
-MJ
