Hi this is Trevor with LeatherWallets.org. In this series of videos we're looking at water resistant wallets, and in this particular video we're looking at the Maxpedition Micro Wallet here. It comes with a little bag and then some tags. You see it's got a bifold design. It doesn't have any way to hold it together. This is made out of 1000 denier ballistic nylon fabric. One pocket on the outside. When you open it up you've got the ID window here and then two pockets here.
I bought this on Amazon. There is not a lot to it. This fabric should repel water. It's got a Teflon coating that repels stains as well as its natural resistance to water should be repel it. Now, this won't be waterproof meaning you won't be able to dunk it in water and have the contents remain dry. But, sitting outside in the rain, with a downpour, hopefully the content will remain dry. We're going to test that.
The way we're going to test that is we have a bunch of these little stickers here. These are what's used in electronics to identify when an object has been wet they change color. So we're going to stick these on a couple of cards throw it in the wallet and then get the wallet wet. We're going to simulate a rain storm. A light misting all the way up. We're going to keep working that up until we do get the cards to change color and see where we had to stop.
Looking at the fabric, this is a triple polyurethane coated, 1000 denier ballistic nylon fabric. A lot of terms to describe what this is, but it is water resistant. It's got nylon thread, the stitching is all nylon they didn't, it doesn't look like they melted the ends, they simply tucked it under. So this is a different design. But see how everything is... Let me show you the edge there which is stitched, if we can get this to focus, and every edge is double stitched. Not much to this.
Let's see how many cards we can throw into that guy. And we'll try some cash as well. It's fine. Let me fit a couple more in there. That is going to be about it. It's starting to get tight, but that's is a pretty good amount. We also got a pocket out here. Throw one in here for something that maybe you use all the time and want to get to easily. Let's try putting in some cash. This is without any cash right now. Eight cards in there. Let's see how cash would fit. Let's try this big pocket. Yeah. Cash will fit there. So if you wanted to put some cash in this back pocket and maybe leave the other pockets for cards. Cash would fit in there. You could also throw some out there.
I don't like this orientation as much because it does overlap. I think I missed one card. Nine cards. I'm not going to count bills just because there's no pocket made for bills. So you could put it really anywhere. Well let's do this right. 10 bills, the same amount of bills that was in the Chum's throw that in this back pocket. It's a little tight, it still fits, it doesn't fold over. That's all right. I kind of wish this had some way to keep it closed. You could throw four cards behind that ID window. This is a little stiff, this denier. I don't like how this folds when you have cash in it. You see how it's folding over those bills? For a cardholder, it seems great. Cash and Cards? Personally I didn't like how it folded over. I don't think that's good. So we're going to call this with nine cards and no bills. Of course you know you can put the bills in how you like and use it how how you like.
This wallet is not listed as RFID blocking. Let's go ahead and test that out. We've got our 13.56 Megahertz testing there. Throw that in the middle, and we do get a scan. Just to confirm, we've got our 125 kilohertz detector here. We'll put it on this pocket, and it scans.
The difference between these two detection or RFID devices, the 125 kilohertz is a lower frequency and travels further. It is an older technology. These are called Proximity cards. You'll find these a lot on building access type devices. This is my credit card that has a wireless chip in it. This is 13.56 Megahertz is the frequency that this runs on and is typical for all smart cards, bus passes, things like that. Just to give you an idea of the difference between those two frequencies.
Let's look at the build quality, one last pass. I don't like this edge here. They took a lot of shortcuts. You can see that thread isn't melted there, because it's nylon, it would be better if it was melted. It just cuts off here. Remember that this wallet is an inexpensive wallet. It's hard to judge it compared to some of the other wallets. But that corner just bothers me. Everything else that the stitching is great. They're double stitched everywhere. Plastic feels good. That's it.
If you're looking for something basic to carry cards this will work. We will go outside and test its water resiliency or resistance to water here in just a minute.
We are outside in my backyard, we have got all the wallets set up. We're going to do the water test. Each of them have a card like this in it, that has these little dots that turn colors. You can see they turn red when water hits it on that backside I also have some tissue paper taped to it so we can use that as an indicator as well. So let's get started. Test one light spritz.
All right, we're back. Let's see how the Maxpedition denier wallet handled the rain I gave it. So here we have got the card. You can see some of those have turned red and the tissue paper looks pretty good. Yeah, tissue paper looks good. It looks like just this one edge down here got wet and you can feel it. The wall e ts wet. Its not like soaking wet, but it's wet.
All right so that's it for the Maxpedition wallet. What do I say about this wallet? This is very inexpensive. If you need a grab and go, something to carry just the bare essentials, something that will probably outlast most of the wallets that we review on this channel. This may be it. Like I said, 1000 denier, ballistic nylon fabric triple polyurethane coated for water resistance. That didn't help with my rain shower. Teflon fabric coating. Very well stitched. You can see how every edge is double stitched. The only issue with the construction that I found was this corner here. That just seems like they could have done something else so that this corner looked a little better. All right thanks. Make sure you check out the other videos as well as the website. LeatherWallets.org. Thanks so much. Goodbye.
