Sharpie on container

[tsalnukt 1]

I was just given a javelin to repack and the entire outside of the reserve tray and A-E flap and a few other ares have been colored in with a sharpie. It was white and now it is black.

Has anyone encountered such a thing? Other than looking ridiculous, is it bad and how bad is it?

Thanks

[livnbored 0]

We encountered a rig that had been shoe-polished once because the owner really wanted to change the colour. I can't really remember how we concluded it was shoe polish, but he did it with the reserve and main inside. We sent it back to Sunpath and Sunpath declared it un-airworthy. When in doubt send it to the manufacturer, but I'm sure someone will know about Sharpies.

Are you sure it's a Sharpie?

[popsjumper 2]

I'd check the lost/stolen listings for serial numbers, too.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[councilman24 37]

I had a newbie change his blue rig to black with a laundry marker. "it said it's safe for all fabrics" he said. Not only container but harness. But only the part that you could see. i.e. Front of webbing but not back or under mud flap.

Immediately refused to pack it. If for no other reason than the crap was rubbing off and would rub off on the guy next to him in the airplane. Let alone dying is a major modification and no one has any idea how the ink was going to affect the rig.

This rig is now junk. If you ask Sunpath they will say the same thing. An expensive lesson in do it yourself rigging. Sometimes I don't know what goes through newbie's minds.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

[riggerrob 643]

That reminds me of a re-coloured Talon that showed up at Rigging Innovations.
The third?() owner did not know what type of dye was used to change it from grey to black.

Sandy Reid replied "That rig was never here. We never saw it. We will not do any updates on it. We wil not do any repairs on it. We will not resize the harness. We will not sew any spare parts for that rig."

Pretty much an orphan.

[deadwood 0]

PIA-TS-108.1 allows using a sharpie on canopy fabric. Not sure how it would affect container fabric, but I can't see it being much different.

He who hesitates shall inherit the earth.

Deadwood
Skydive New Mexico Motorcycle Club, Touring Division

[RiggerLee 61]

this is not a first or unique ocurance. It never failes to amaze me what people do to perfectly nice rigs. I don't know what they are thinking at the time but I'm sure beer is involved in a lot of these decisions.

Funny stories, examples.

The marksalot rig. I remember this because of all the drama assoceated with it. Same kind of shit. This guy had colored in the stripes on his javelin. I think they had been pink. Ugly as sin. It was one of those rigs dropped off for a repack and then never reclaimed. I take that back I think the guy came back about a six months after I repacked it. I recall he got all pissed off when I told him it was out of date. The I think he called back about a year later and we went through that again. So now he owed me for two repacks. Then it got passed to Tom who wound up paying for his 4 year and a repack then a year later the guy calls back the night before the biggest boogie of the year wanting to know if it can be ready for the first load the next day, this was about 7:00 at night, and of course it needed new batteries. Maybe I'm getting it all confused there may have been another near miss of us almost getting payed. But by the end he was into us for... I think it was five or six hundred dollars. And then he was MIA again. Couldn't find the guy couldn't contact him and we're like three or four years into this debockal by now. In the end we decided that he had eather quit the sport or just fucking died and we didn't care which. So Tom was stuck with all this money out of pocket and a god awefal ugly rig. In the end we wound up rebuilding it, replacing the stripe flap, leg pads, etc. And Tom had him self a pretty nice looking rig. And that is how Tom got his Velocity Sportsware rig.

Another fun story. The Glitter rig. Mary Ann. If you knew Marry Ann you'll apreceate this story. Another Javelin. I don't know why people pick on pore defenceless javelins. Apparently one night She got the idea in her head that it would be cool to make her rig sparkle. I'm shure there were drugs involved in this decision. It was actually a perfectly nice javelin and I don't think she even changed the colors but it just wasn't freefly enough for her. It just wasn't sparkly and so comes the glitter. Yes, Mary Ann was a glitter girl. She glued glitter on her reserve cover flap, strips flap, and the exposed quadrants of her pilot chute. And so was born the glitter rig. Again it wasn't a "structural" part of the rig. It didn't interfear with it's operation. Yes, I checked, she did not get any glue under the flaps and glue it closed but... Alcohol and drugs. It's the only explanations I can come up with other then, well you would have to have known Mary Ann. I hated packing that rig. Glitter every where. It just shed it continuesly and endlessly. She must have kept reaplying it. I miss her if only for the laughs she provided us.

Some of the coolest mods like this that I have seen were on Racers. I don't know the guys name but he painted some really great art work on Racer pop tops. Not only was he actually a really good artest but they held up pretty well. He went out and found the right paints and if you took care of them they would last. Those pop tops were actually hands down really cool.

Just a few of the more entertaining stories. I just want to know what they thought when they woke up the next day after there bended. Did they look at the rig and say who the hell did that?

Lee

Lee
lee@velocitysportswear.com
www.velocitysportswear.com

[davelepka 4]

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Some of the coolest mods like this that I have seen were on Racers. I don't know the guys name but he painted some really great art work on Racer pop tops. Not only was he actually a really good artest but they held up pretty well. He went out and found the right paints and if you took care of them they would last. Those pop tops were actually hands down really cool.

David Rickerby.

http://www.artopium.com/David%20Rickerby/

[mr2mk1g 10]

RiggerLee

Some of the coolest mods like this that I have seen were on Racers. I don't know the guys name but he painted some really great art work on Racer pop tops. Not only was he actually a really good artest but they held up pretty well. He went out and found the right paints and if you took care of them they would last. Those pop tops were actually hands down really cool.

A buddy of mine when I first started jumping had bought himself an old beat up Racer with what looked like a scene from the Karma Sutra screen printed onto his pop top. Was instantly dubed the porn rig of course. Funny as hell - wonder if it was from the same guy?