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Originally Posted by Galloglaich
A real mail shirt may weigh as little as 12-13 lbs actually. I think 20 kgs is probably past the upper range even for cap-a-pied mail protection including leggings, full arms, coif and so on, though there is no doubt it would be much harder to swim in all that..
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True, it would depend on the size of the links and the pattern.
The mail shirt that I borrowed for re-enactment occasionally was about that weight, although it was 8 or 10 mm links (I think), which probably explains the weight difference.
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Originally Posted by Galloglaich
Mail armor was cleaned by putting it in a barrel with sand and shaking it to scrub off the rust.
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'Shaking' is one way of putting it. Normally they just seal the barrel and roll it down a hill a couple times.
