Date of Manufacture

[jarrodh 0]

How do I find out the DOM for my vector II and main canopy? Im trying to sell it but a lot of people keep asking me for the DOM and I have no idea what it is. I guess I forgot to ask what it was when I bought it.

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[mark 107]

Your rig DOM is written on a label on the data card pocket under the reserve pin cover flap. It may also be written on the reserve data card itself.

Your canopy DOM is on the warning label sewn to the center cell, on the top near the tail. Depending on how old your canopy is, the information written on the label may not be legible.

Mark

[jarrodh 0]

thanks dude, thats exactly what I needed.

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[Eule 0]

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Your canopy DOM is on the warning label sewn to the center cell, on the top near the tail. Depending on how old your canopy is, the information written on the label may not be legible.

Follow-up n00b question: if you notice that the label on your canopy is getting a little beat up and hard to read, is there any defined procedure for creating a new label with the same info and attaching it to the canopy? This would preserve the DOM, model, size, etc for the future - like the next owner, or a rigger who has to check canopies against a newly-issued service bulletin, etc. The new label would be in addition to, not a replacement for, the original. I realize it wouldn't be a particularly great idea to be able to make up new labels at random - otherwise you'd see canopies getting five years younger overnight. But I'm just curious if this has come up before.

Eule

PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

[mark 107]

I've never seen a problem on reserve canopies.

I did see a 25-year-old Racer with an unreadable TSO stamp. Jump Shack said "No label, no TSO." The problem is that without knowing the serial number, you can't put the serial number back on again. If you're close to unreadable, best to contact the manufacturer -- and if the gear is that old, probably retire it.

Main canopies: get out your extra-fine tip Sharpie and re-ink the data.

Mark

[IanHarrop 43]

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I've never seen a problem on reserve canopies.

I did see a 25-year-old Racer with an unreadable TSO stamp. Jump Shack said "No label, no TSO." The problem is that without knowing the serial number, you can't put the serial number back on again. If you're close to unreadable, best to contact the manufacturer -- and if the gear is that old, probably retire it.

Main canopies: get out your extra-fine tip Sharpie and re-ink the data.

Mark

Hmm. might have to so this. My Pilot 188 the only thing that is readable at all is the hand written stuff serial et al. All the other words have become unreadable and its only got 225 jumps on it.

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