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Everything posted by Calvin19
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Base? hmmm. base. Base is looking up from the landing area, at your freind who just jumped, as he screams in horror as his line-overed tension knotted canopy thats stuck in his boot is gaining spinning-speed, now less than 50 meters up, him loseing consiosness as he passes below the trees. then running as fast as you can to the beach, as he drags his wet canopy out of the snake river. and he sais. "yeah, thats the potato" and you reply "no, thats what you get when you try a gainer tard"
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Why? well, where do i start. Rubberbands are scarce, i can find tape anywhere. one loses tailgates, they are hard to find, and hard to makeshift. i suck at cutting rubberbands in half. the black ones hang up. they break. they take a while to set up on a tailgate. I dont have to remember to take my tailgate off for sliderup jumps. paper tape decomposes faster than a rubberband. there are a few different kinds of common tape that can be used. tape can be placed closer to the canopy on the lines making the tailgate more effective. did i miss anything? why do you use rubber bands? were you taught to? because i was. i just found something better and changed. or is it because everyone else does? im just being mean. no worries bro.
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also, the pocket is lockated on the keel of the canopy. (centercell, on top of the center rib) and i would get the tailgate and tailpocket mixed up. so i made up a new word.
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as for the rubber band thing, I think that rubber bands are bad in general for BASE gear. I dont use a rubber band for the tailgate, i use masking tape. I only use the first bite on the lines for a sliderup packjob, and even then only about 5cm and one rubberband loop. i might even try masking tape for that. i think that rubber bands can cause a lot more porblems than they can save.
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I have thought of useing multiple tailpockets, but there is a few problems i can think of. problems- packing it would be a bitch, trying to do 2 figure 8s at the same time or dragging one linegroup before the other. I think that if there was to be a tension knot in one linegroup, it could cause something even worse. what i have thought of is 2 tailpockets on top of one another, the A/Bs in the bottom, and the C/D/brakes in the top. but it wouls also have the same problems.
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this was why i was asking about the thread used in the keelpocket. I think that this multiple flaps in a triangle form is the best way to stow lines. as for the 'velcro wears out' thing, doesnt the manufactururs specify we should replace the keelpocket every 100 jumps ish? The tailpocket i am making will have 20 different triangle flaps, eachwith their own velcro. I am also making new experimental lines for my old dagger. with spanwise cascading and 10 risers. i think the modified (not neccesarily new) keelpockets will become more popular. but probably will be a bit less complicated than mine.
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A hemispherical PC has problems that i can see already, and a few benefits. Hemi PC- BAD- not as much drag for fabric surface area due to projected surface area, if packed weird, depending on the size of the pc it could make for a long throw out arc, maybe it wouldnt all come out. GOOD- the PC would be deeper, so it would occilate much less, there would be nothing on the inside of the pc to snag for a second on the fabric of the zp.
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Isnt that on every BASE gear label that we already jump?
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Thanks! the webbing in PCs i was talking about was the center lift line, it looks like binding tape, just wanted to make sure. i have no binding tape, so that will get here when i order it. E thread, good. my weeny machine will handle that. thamks. as for glue, i had no ideas besides sewing, moslty just curious. I have used cyanacrolate to bind fabric together in hanggliders, but usualy for non-critical places, or where a machine cannot be used due to thelocation of the stitch. i use cyanacrolate glue to stop thread from unweaving. the glue is pretty nice. andf yes, i was talking about the tailpocket. keelpocket, whatever. sorry. Thanks!
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what thread is used for the keelpockets for line containment? IE attatching it to the Canopy.? what thrad for PCs? Also, has there been any ideas in making a pilot chute useing ZP/mash/binding tape WITHOUT useing a sewing machine? what tape is used in the PC ZP? what webbing for the center lift line in the PC? All of the shit i have i think will work just fine, but my sewing machine is getting kinda tired, and the whole point of this is to try something new and different. CH
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I have ascended to 1100' behind a car useing my dagger 222. i used a homemade teeth-release for the tow line. I used a 5000' runway as the usual site. never jumped it. the was logistical priblems we thought of for that. but it was fun as hell. ON A DIFFERENT NOTE This month of my life very well may have been the most dangerous time of my existrance. Note, please, that i do more dangerous shit than most people in the world. that includes base jumpers. This parascending may be the most dangerous thing i have ever gotten good at. be careful. PS-figure out a payout winch. Trust me.
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Chris, man, im going to do this someday. Ill go to hell for it, but its worth it. Ill do it in Wisconsin. of course, ill need 300$. damn.
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kum and go kicks ass.
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armstrong. that hoser is cool. i have his number. but its about noonish. i just woke up. its raining
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um..... yeah....
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ill do it next time im at potato. but im a sketchball.
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Rope hucks are way more fun than the pendultor, and there is a lot more time to figure out where the exit was screwed up, sometimes way more than a slider down BASE jump. of course, Rope hucks are a bit more dangerouse than any base, and take a day or more to set up for even the really experienced. so nevermind.
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I have no problem useing as much webbing as i need, the original idea was to make the rig seem a bit cleaner than a tied up rig, but that is a good idea. hook knives dull really fast though. not that im doing a lot of high profile jumps.
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i mean, not that give a flying fuck, but seriously, am i?
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if you ask me,.. (granted, nobody did, but i dont care) Only use a pin that has been used on a parachute, it makes it feel more meaningful. dont get one that was made specificaly for a necklace, those alwase look kinda retarded. I tore my pin off an old crew bridal, laced it in mammut 2mm cordage, and wore it until my best girlfreind and sky/diver/BASE jumper crashed my airplane and was killed, it was creamated with her. now im trying to find a new pin.
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so, i know it was designed to be impossible, but has anybody done it? including non-jumper contorsionistyish people? i ask because the rig im building will have either fixed leg straps, or a fixed chest strap. just went through my head that it would be pretty cool to have both fixed. i doubt its possible, i tried a few times, i could only do it if the leg straps are, at my knees. and i dont want to have to do that every time. (i mean, besides the knee thing, standin up.)
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I bet the only thing that could matter in that is the tension of the leg straps.
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this was in an offheading forum question thing, but its keeping me up nights, has anybody had a canopy where a seam has been measurable off where it should be? as in noticable between two same model/size?
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poeple being part of the 'airplane!' forum... Age?
Calvin19 replied to Calvin19's topic in The Bonfire
I have. have you? -
poeple being part of the 'airplane!' forum... Age?
Calvin19 replied to Calvin19's topic in The Bonfire
just wondering.