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  1. indyz
    If you know somebody with a harness machine it would be cheaper and easier to build the harness part from scratch. The construction is pretty simple and is a great learning experience if you ever want to be a master rigger.
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    Usually dealer price on servicing includes insured shipping both ways. A dealer charging $200 might be making $10 on the transaction.
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    As far as I know that is the only version. The info on gear is obviously pretty dated, but the basic techniques for vertical formations (stacks and planes) described haven't changed much. Do you want this to teach yourself CRW?
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    I had a V344 (not a Micron, too old) and it fit a 160 reserve just fine. A Spectre 170 was a bit on the snug side but not a problem.
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    You probably can, but a taxi is surprisingly cheap. It's been a while, but I think we might have paid $30 one-way from the Palm?
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    The stuff on the left looks like flat dacron, similar to ParaGear part number W9754F. The stuff on the right could be a lot of things. Where did you get it from?
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    There are two kinds of dacron that you are likely to see, flat braided and round braided. Flat dacron looks, well, flat, like a shoe lace. Flat dacron isn't commonly used on newer sport parachutes, but it was used on Swifts and many other canopies in the 80s and early 90s. 600 lb and stronger round dacron is pretty common on sport canopies but I've only seen 400 lb used on low-volume BASE canopies like the Flik Lite and the Feather.
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    ParaGear is in Skokie. They carry almost everything, but it isn't really a gear store where you can wander around and look at merchandise. They are primarily mail-order / internet based, but they have a sales counter and are happy to help out if you show up in person. ParaConcepts at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa is a full-service gear store and rigging loft. I think the new Chicagoland Skydiving Center in Rochelle might have a pro shop, but I can't remember.
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    There is still a problem with that, though. Even a relatively low aspect ratio 7-cell canopy comes in around 2:1. A Sabre is more like 2.5:1. A Sabre that filled with wall horizontally would have a 12 foot span and only a 4.8 foot chord. Less than 60 square feet.
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    Seriously? It's a perfectly reasonable question to ask in this forum. Why does having a completed profile matter in the slightest?
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    PD uses many bartack patterns for different applications. Andy Hughes has a document here that describes some of them as of 2008.
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    They've been playing commercials for it on the Science channel. Its airing sometime in October. They show somebody bailing out of the airstair, WFFC-style.
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    I ordered one of the plastic cams off of ebay, we'll see how that goes.
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    Does anybody know where to get cams for Bernina a 217N? I'm specifically looking for a 308 cam for a Bernina 217N-06. I got a great deal on a machine with a cam reader, but all of the included cams are for useless decorative stitches.
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    Has anybody had a firmware update on the remote fail and manage to get it going again? It's stuck in the "updating" screen. If I let the battery run down, it goes back to the same screen as soon as I put it back on the charger. I'm pretty sure mine is bricked, but I'm hoping to be able to fix it instead of returning it. Update: I fixed it the hard way. It turns out that the remote was willing to accept the firmware update but CineForm wouldn't send it because it couldn't read the remote status. I ended up writing my own program that uses the CineForm updater DLL and it worked. It isn't suitable for general release, but if anybody runs into the same problem let me know and I'll see if I can help.
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    I use 2" climb-spec tubular webbing. Most stores that sell climbing gear will carry it, or you can find it online at REI.
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    I've seen older canopies use a few inches of loose zigzag with a couple of stitches worth of over-stitch at each end. My favorite way to sew lines without a bartacker, though, is a technique that I think hookitt posted a few year back. Sew a pass of zigzag, then pick the foot up and move the line back to the starting point and sew a second pass right over the top. The loose thread should be trapped in the second pass. It works well in a lot of places that you would normally use a bartack. For line work, make sure that the stitch is narrow enough and centered so that it goes through both lines in the fingertrap. If it's a line on a canopy I set the width and SPI to match the factory bartacks. 3/4" long and 42 total stitches is a good starting point if you don't have anything to compare to.
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    There are also, unfortunately, a lot of sellers who don't close their ads and just ignore emails once the item sells.
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    September 6-9. Thursday is usually a pretty slow start, but if we have people interested we can probably start early.
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    I can't speak for every canopy, but for the following the answer is "yes": Velocity 111, Vengeance 135, Triathlon 160, Lightning 160, Spectre 170, Navigator 260, Ace 280, and probably a couple of others I can't remember. I wasn't dumb to try and there is no story to tell.
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    It's a Wings reserve PC and freebag.
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    My Tempo manual, which I believe was current when Aerodyne absorbed PISA, doesn't list the trim specs.
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    PD trim charts only give A line length and the differences between the A line and the B, C, and D lines. They don't give the location of the cascades. You will have to contact PD for that information.
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    Last time I talked to Eric from Too Wrapped Up at Elsinore he had some chest containers without pilotchutes. If you just want to grind out 100 packs for the Master, that's the way to go.
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    The Canadian license system is actually pretty cool. For a D license you have to demonstrate proficiency in freefall and a 2-way freefly jump is only one of four ways to do that. There are also 4-way belly, 8-way belly, and style options. All of the requirements are here. I like it a lot better than USPA's D license, which is basically just survive 500 jumps.