Talk:Polyester/Archives/2014

Who & When & Where Invented
Maybe do an US patents search, such as # 2,903,021 Fourdriner Cloth Huyck & Sons, NY NY Dec 23, 1955. Or # 2,448,032 Textile Fabric (1944). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.183.224.2 (talk) 17:29, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Fire Rating
I'm curious to know if polyester products will melt into my skin during a fire, or protect me from flames like wool would. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.58.234.53 (talk) 10:34, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Polyester clothing would melt to your skin, like plastic. In general, natural fibres (like cotton, linen, wool etc) tend to be more fire-resistant than synthetic ones (like polyester, nylon, rayon, etc), except sometimes (like kevlar, neoprene etc). Fire performers wear 100% cotton.  --24.250.22.46 (talk) 00:14, 4 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Welders do not wear ordinary cotton like flannel, it is always catching on fire. And they do not wear polyester; it doesn't catch on fire from metal droplets, but simply melts (in place, not to the skin) without slowing the droplets down and lets the droplets keep traveling where they do burn the skin! They wear wool or treated flame-resistant fabrics.209.86.76.211 (talk) 20:06, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

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 * NGC/Escape from technology, mentioned reinforced glasfibre(?) polyester. That would not catch fire despite being subjected to directed flame for substantial time. It's used in oil platform escape boats. Electron9 (talk) 01:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Cross-linked polyester (Glyptal resin)
According to Pavia's Introduction to Organic Laboratory Techniques, a cross-linked polyester is also called a "Glyptal resin". (page 407-8). For some reason, "Glyptal" redirects to a list of characters from an Asimov novel. I'm changing it to redirect to this article. Fuzzform (talk) 22:53, 25 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Glyptal was a trade name for an insulating varnish from General Electric. In general, vegtable-oil varnishes work by oxidising, but some synthetics like urethane react with moisture vapor. Need article on Glyptal.209.86.76.211 (talk) 20:15, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

General scope of article
This article should be about the different poly-esters, short intro about what ester is, history of the term, examples of different particular polyesters... "using polyester yarn made from PET" ... "liquid polyester resin, the most common resin used to make fiberglass fiber reinforced plastic" ...  etc. A very detailed disambig article. The details of the particular products, like history, terminology, melting point, etc belong in the particular articles. Is vinyl ester resin technically a polyester? What about polycarbonate (esterification but not make with alcohol)?209.86.76.211 (talk) 21:11, 11 November 2014 (UTC)