Stowing Hma lines

[chileanXaos 0]

How do you stow your Hma lines ? , so they dont get loose

[hookitt 1]

To keep them orderly, just double stow them.

[Kris 0]

I didn't have any problems with the Nitro I just demo'd. I use small tube-stows and didn't have any probs with them.

However, with the locking stows, I did have to remove my large locking tube-stows and put normal small tube-stows on.

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[chileanXaos 0]

double stoeing them with small rubber bands , might be too tight and with small tube stows it is too loose.

[hookitt 1]

Double stowing the small rubber bands isn't too tight but they'll break all the time Just use standard rubber bands and double stow them.

Tube stows are fine but I gave up on em long ago. I just use whatever is handy. Standard rubberbands fit that description quite well.

[billvon 3,120]

Hiper does NOT recommend double stowing; they recommend standard stows without a lot of line in the stows (i.e. no 4" stows.) This came up because Duffy was having some odd openings, so he called them and got that recommendation.

[mark 107]

You can try cutting the rubber bands in half. They'll stretch more easily and last almost as long as standard-width bands.

I've been using standard-width small bands, single-wrapped, for six or eight hundred jumps. Sometimes the stows look loose, but as long as the center locking stows are tight, it doesn't matter to the opening. There might be some small contribution to decreased opening shock, but the primary function of the non-locking stows is to reduce the possibility of lines entangling with the container.

Mark

[JohnRich 4]

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just double stow them.

Quite a few people are using the term "double stow", and I have a problem with that phrase.

It sounds as if it is describing putting *two* groups of line stows inside *one* rubber band. That would not be good.

I think a better term is "double wrap", which better describes wrapping the rubber band twice around one line stow, to create a tighter hold. And this phrase helps eliminate any possible confusion about what it really means.