🔥 Testing Flame Resistant Clothing with a Solar Death Ray

We recently sent samples of our flame resistant clothing to @joemyheck to put them through an extreme test using his solar death ray.

To show the difference, he first tested a regular cotton shirt. Under the intense concentrated sunlight, the shirt ignited almost instantly and quickly burned out of control, eventually turning to ashes.

Next, he tested our Benchmark FR shirt. While the solar ray was powerful enough to burn a hole through the fabric, the key difference was clear. The material did not ignite or allow flames to spread. The damage stayed localized with only minor charring around the affected area.

The same results were seen when testing our FR jeans. Even under extreme heat, the fabric resisted ignition. Holes formed where the beam was concentrated, but flames stayed contained and did not continue to burn.

This experiment highlights the core purpose of flame resistant clothing.
It will not prevent damage under extreme heat, but it helps prevent ignition and stops flames from spreading, giving workers critical protection on the job.

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I wanted to see how this flame-resistant clothing did under the solar death ray.

 This thing can burn wood, and as a comparison, I just wanted to show first how this cotton shirt did under the solar death ray.

 This is not flame-resistant, and you could see how it instantly burst into flames under the concentrated sunlight coming down through this giant lens.

 The flames got so big, I had to let the shirt go, and I just watched the whole thing burn right in front of me under the solar death ray.

 I even had to get this thing and throw it in a metal can because it continued to burn.

 Now for the flame-resistant shirt.

 I checked for the hot spot and then moved the shirt right into that area.

 The solar death ray lasered a hole right through the cloth, but unlike the test shirt, this flame-resistant shirt did not burst into flames.

 Even though the solar death ray lasered a hole through this shirt, the flames did not spread.

 The hellish temperatures from the convergent sunlight of the solar death ray had burned a 2 to 3 inch hole in the fabric, but the flames were fairly self-contained.

 Just like the shirt, these jeans were benchmark flame-resistant, and I wanted to see how the thicker fabric did under the solar death ray.

 And just for some amusement, I aimed it right at the bung hole in the pants, right down the middle where the crack is.

 The solar death ray lasered a bung hole right through the pants.

 Similar to the flame-resistant shirt, the pants had a hole in them, but the flames were fairly self-contained.

 I then rolled a pant leg up to see how many layers of fabric that the solar death ray could laser a hole through.

 And like the previous experiments, the fabric pretty much just gave away to the intense heat and light, and there were multiple holes down the pant leg.

 So here's what was left of the cotton shirt, pretty much ashes.

 There was a hole in the flame-resistant shirt, but it was otherwise fairly unscathed, other than a little bit of charring.

 With the pants, there was a hole, well, right down the middle where the bung hole is.

 And there were holes in the leg as well where I had aimed the solar death ray.

 This was a cool experiment to show a comparison between flame-resistant fabric and the just regular cotton shirt.

 And this whole thing was actually totally rad.