Good buy or not?

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Javelin J-2, C-19, hip and chest rings, pillow cutaway and reserve, red/black tye-dye, Precision 181-M reserve, cypress, all manufactured 03-2000. No main. $2200. Good buy or not?

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My version of the price puts it at about market value. Not a great deal, but not a great loss either.

Container = 850-950
Reserve = 650-750
Cypres = 650 (-50 or so if they have'nt replaced the battery)

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The reserve is a pillow. I've been drilling with and old rig with that set up seems like every day but i am still thinking about a metal reserve handle. I't does feel better for me with the pillow but the brain tells me to go metal. The reserve like i said was manufactured in 03-2000. I have talked with instructors about it and they just wanted to make sure that the velcro on the reserve handle was not double velcro but only velcro on one side as opposed to both side where it sits in the harness

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Edit: If you have Velcro only on the backside of your MLW for the reserve ripcord pillow, you will have to get it fixed so that the MLW will accept a metal handle.

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Edit: If you have Velcro only on the backside of your MLW for the reserve ripcord pillow, you will have to get it fixed so that the MLW will accept a metal handle.

Hey Zig. My gut says stay with the pillow. It feels comfortable in the hands, i'm always going over emergency procedures on the ground, in the plane and sometimes in freefall by touching all my handles. I can touch and grab all my handles by feel and not have to visually look at them to know where they are. It is different having a pillow after having metal for all my jumps but its something i feel confident using