agree with MacDoc. My pants inners melted to my Independant knee protection. I had just changed to using that a few mths earlier. (I used to have photos.. but photobucket is gone now. )
I have some of your photos that I took, before and after the repair, but can't upload them. I really need to put that article up sometime soon.
I always seek out photos of mesh gear that has melted in a crash, but they are quite rare. The mesh can harden, which must mean that it heated up in order to adhere, ball up and become shiny somewhat. I would not say that the mesh fabric had melted. Often when you get skin rubbed off it is not the outer layer than caused this but your skin rubbing on the inner layer. With sufficient violent movement your skin will simply rub off from a friction burn. I have never seen on the web, any situation where the outer mesh has melted and become molten and has hardened onto someone’s wound.
That said, there have been rare cases. I have
documented some. The overwhelming majority of other cases show me that mesh does not melt, but it is not impossible. Compare to the many other images of mesh and polyester than have abraded.
To make you happy, here are
two photos I took of an Olympia Nomad jacket that partially heated up and shined over. I was looking for proof that his textile had melted, but there was none. The owner...is on this board. He will be here shortly. I would post the photos here but they are too large, or some other reason.
Olympia Nomad textile jacket. ...lowsided in Pennsylvania at 80 kph in May 2012... This is a closeup of the textile at left elbow that did melt a little but did not rip through the inner liner. Inner liner and armour were undamaged. The textile jacket did its job.
If you have photos of mesh gear that melted, I'd really like to see them and hear about your crash situation. I'll also document them for others on the internet to see. Other bikers around the world ask the same exact question about mesh.
Both mesh and textile are a one crash type clothing. Sure they might be repairable, but that would only be a bonus. If they have taken the blow of the initial hit and mostly saved your skin from a major graft, they have done their job.