Safety of rig after surviving house fire

[matt1215 0]

Had a fire a few months ago. My rig was in a hall-closet and appeared to only suffer some smoke & debris damage. Most of the soot came off pretty easy with a wet rag. I can deal with the smell, figure it would go away after a few jumps. The main looks unharmed.

Any suggestions on what sort of checks I should have done on this rig, before I use it again?

[BillyVance 34]

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Had a fire a few months ago. My rig was in a hall-closet and appeared to only suffer some smoke & debris damage. Most of the soot came off pretty easy with a wet rag. I can deal with the smell, figure it would go away after a few jumps. The main looks unharmed.

Any suggestions on what sort of checks I should have done on this rig, before I use it again?

Best advice anyone can give you is take it to a master rigger for a full inspection.

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[GLIDEANGLE 1]

While your rig is @ the riggers... have him wash the harness/container. That might help with the smell and remove any soot that will rub off on your jumpsuit or other jumpers in the plane. The cost isn't much if you do it at the time of an inspection and repack.

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[Glitch 0]

I'd strongly suggest contacting the manufacture of both the HC and reserve before you jump it. Our DZ has a near spanky new Safety Day cutaway set up due to this very reason. They have no way of knowing what contaminates got into the nylon and what that will do to material properties.

good luck!

Randomly f'n thingies up since before I was born...

[JohnRich 4]

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Best advice anyone can give you is take it to a master rigger for a full inspection.

Do that. And claim the cost on your homeowner's insurance.

[davelepka 4]

We had a fire in a trailer that was housing at least a dozen rigs. Some of them were damaged beyond repair , and some that were on the other end of the building from the fire were not. Of those, three of them have been in service for about 12 months to the tune of 200-ish jumps on each of them.

All of them were disassembled the day of the fire, and immediately washed several times. The rigs all came clean with no damage found. All of the canopies were inspected, and we found no damage to any of them.

Have a rigger disassemble, wash and inspect. My guess would be that nobody is going to sign off on a fire rig unless they are 110% sure it's OK.

All three rigs that survived the fire happened to be Infinities. I'm not suggesting that Infinities can survive a fire, at least two or three were lost in the fire as well. Good luck

[James.UWE 0]

My neighbours house caught fire, and my old rig was exposed to smoke from it.

After advice on here http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3581017;#3581017 I claimed on our home contents insurance, and got a cheque for its brand new value.

I now have a brand new vector/safire2/PDR (Cheers Karnage Krew!). Airtec said the cypres would be fine though.