tychoaussie wrote:Oh Doug! That's really very awesome!Douglas Collier wrote:Foam. I'm going to make the head base out of resin, though.
Actually it's nerve-wracking! One mistake and my OCD would never let me forget it. But I think the finished product will be worth it.
It'll be good to get some more fursuiter Housepets readers posting their photos on this thread!
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By the way, on the EZcooldown vest. I cannot vouch for them personally, but I think that they are likely a really good product. They use, i think, Glaciertek cooling packs.
On the issue of Glaciertek: I purchased a Glaciertek cooling vest in the summer of 2012. It 2014, one of the packs sprung a leak, so I tossed it out, thinking I would have to order a replacement. Then, this summer, I put my remaining packs into the snack drawer of the refrigerator to cool them, as I prepared for some fursuiting. Well.... I learned to never put them in the snack drawer, as I came home to find my son had mistaken the frozen packs as a pack of vacuum-sealed burritos, and he had cut them out, and was packing one for lunch.
oops. That was a $129 mistake...Good thing these packs are non-toxic, though I hate to think what they taste like.
So I figured I had nothing to lose, and I sent this email to Glaciertek:
"One of my packs sprung a leak last fall, and my son just mistook another of my packs to be a package of burritos. He cut it apart and was getting ready to eat it. Would this perhaps be covered under warranty?"
The director of Glaciertek emailed me back the next day that they still had my purchase record, and as the original purchaser, that they would indeed warranty the cooling packs. In fact ,they put a brand new set in the mail, along with a return shipping label for my 'defective and partially eaten' packs. I guess they got a good chuckle out of it. My replacement packs arrived less than a week later, and I was nice & cool for my next fursuiting gig.
So, Glaciertek customer service flat-out ROCKS, and if I need another cooling vest, I will buy it from Glaciertek again. I own the following vest:
http://store.coolvest.com/concealable-cooling-vest/
If you hunt around for a coupon code, or if you call via voice, you can sometimes ask for and receive a 10% off discount.
I found out EZcooldown is actually Techniche cooling vests
http://www.techniche-intl.com/home.html