Guys,

I just spent the morning at fabric/sewing hobby shops looking for dacron fiber. No luck. They have lots of materials for fillers ... holofil, polyester, cotton, and so on and on and on.

The such shops don't seem to carry it.

Any place on the internet that I can order some?

Thanks,

Dacron is Dupont's brand name for one of their polyester fiberfill products. You buy it here once and it lasts a lifetime.
https://www.storesonline.com/site/490194/page/96250
http://www.superfluff.com/Super_Fluff/Fiberfill/fiberfill.htm

Most polyester fiberfills will do the same thing.

The minimum order here is 20 X 10 OZ bags ... $48 + $3 + shipping for enought to last 10 lifetimes.

Anyone know of a place where a small quantify can be bought?

Can dacron fiber furniture pad be teased apart and used as cartridge filler?

You can buy small amounts at most any yardage store or upholstery shop. CHEERS

My wife gets it at Wally World in the sewing dept. She uses tons of it in the pillows & quilts she makes.

Rick

I buy it walmart in the sewing/crafts deparment too

The only cartridge filler I use is for my 45/70 loads. I find ordinary napkin form fast food restaurant or toilet paper quite adequate. Cut them up in 1â€x3" strips and just stuff it in the cartridge. You will be amazed.

Danny Boy

Guys,

As I said before, I cannot find dacron fiber in town ... have been to a number of sewing shops and Wally World.

All they have is material marked "polyester" fiber.

Is this "good enough" to risk in a $10k double rifle?

Like tissue and Kleenex.....I think it's the same stuff. At least until I used the foam filler I couldn't tell the difference.

Gary B.

The difference is dacron blows out the end of the barrel in a slug form, the same way a bullet does and thats desirable.It does not burn inside the bore...

When I burn paper I get carbon or ash. I tried to burn fiber/Dacron/cotton it turned out to be some gummy stuff. If all that gummy stuff blows out of the barrel then there is no difference. If some sticks to the inside of the barrel then I would rather burn paper.

It is an easy experiment. If you don’t have dacron, use cotton ball. See which is a better way to go.

Cheers!

Danny Boy

Don't know what type of gun the original poster
was talking about but with a light .38 special load in a 5"barrel .357, I had tissue paper blowing out not even slightly scorched.
John L.

mstarling. I went through the same issue as you 3-4 yrs. ago. As we all know, when it comes to the world of platics, there are endless varieties. I too wasn't going to stuff the wrong kind into the bore of my favourite gun and gum up the barrel, by using the wrong stuff. When I went looking for dacron, all over 2 major cities, all I got was blank stares. It took months to figure this out, once and for all. After several phone calls to Dupont, since when I first called the people at Dupont and they didn't know what dacron was either, I finally got put through to their chemistry dept. where they confirmed that dacrons name had been changed to polyester fiberfill decades ago. The problem lies in the fact that Lyman hasn't updated their info on fillers in decades and are probably the only people in the world that still use the name dacron. Of course when people, new to fillers do as they should, and refer to a good manual, the first thing that happens is they go on a wild goose chase looking for dacron. In the last few yrs. I've written this many times.

Ron.D and others are correct. Polyester fiber fill or pillowstuffing is what you want.
It will be blown out the barrel. It is not scorched or burnt/melted in any way as far as I can tell.
I now use a foam plug I cut out with a sharpened [with a chamfer tool] 50 BMG case. I have used 3 different types of foam from fairly firm to pretty spongy. The foam plug should be compressed against the powder by the bullet. I can tell no difference in the results between the different types of foam. It too is blown out the bbl with no signs of burning/melting etc. I like the firmer foam best as it cuts a little easier.

mstarling

Why not buy Kapok?

It's a natural material, water proof and will not turn "gummy" like some other fillers

Cheers
/ JOHAN

After all of the looking and questioning, my wife found a pound or so of Jo-Ann Fabric's Dacron Holofill II in her sewing stuff.

So I have some for a while.

When I go to buy more ... is the new product marked "Polyester Fiberfil" adequate for the job?

Thanks!

I use Dacron poly fill used in pillow stuffing for loading my 450/400 3 inch with RL-15.
The stuff is not consumed in firing, rather spat out the bore!

quote:

Originally posted by Danny Boy:
If you don’t have dacron, use cotton ball. See which is a better way to go.

Cheers!

Danny Boy

I use pieces of Cotton balls.

quote:

Originally posted by Atkinson:
The difference is dacron blows out the end of the barrel in a slug form, the same way a bullet does and thats desirable.It does not burn inside the bore...

Unfortunately that molten slug has a habit of arriving at the base of the bullet, spreading sideways, exerting trememdous force against the chamber at that point and ringing the neck (ie displacing chamber metal such that you have a ring of metal in the wall of the chamber at that point)

This is NOT a fairy tale, I did it with my 9.3x62 and had to replace an otherwise perfectly good barrel - this after less than 20 rounds of dacron filled ammunition.

The replacement barrel cost $600 a lot less than your double.

Kynamco uses and sell special wads for loading double rifles.