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Acceptable Liners I – Liner Quality Testing What made liners acceptable and what made them rejectable?

Pub Talk - Are Plastic Liners Really Made From Plastic? When compared visually to modern-day plastic products, folks often question if the M-1 liner was, in fact, made from plastic.

Pub Talk - Necessity is the Mother of Invention Can you name the most famous product in the world that utilizes cotton duck cloth?

Obstacles to Production III -- Plastic Liner Procurement V  Hydraulic Presses, Paint, Suspensions, Hardware and Assembly, Oh my Decisions made in the name of “early production” now began to manifest as obstacles to that production. Unexpected manufacturing failures experienced by the prime contractors force a halt to production and require experimentation and standardization to resolve.

Obstacles to Production II--  Plastic Liner Procurement IV Plastic Impregnated Duck Cloth: The Office of The Quartermaster General, in their efforts to attain early production for a plastic version of the M-1 helmet liner, bypassed experimentation and afforded every manner of freedom for liner firms to devise their own manufacturing process. As unexpected results occurred during the molding process, the Chicago Quartermaster Depot scrambled to get production back on track.