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  1. chuteshack
    i appreciate your response.as to the origin of the hole in the slider, in 1976 Para Flite was working on designing a fabric that was lighter than the original 1.5 oz Putnam material that was being used in strato stars and strato clouds. they and Don Moloneux(moloneux mills) came up with a 1.25 fabric that had a rather limp feel to it, and was incredibly strong(thats another story). problem with the 1.25 fabric was that if you roll packed the canopy with a strap(free pack), it was so small it hid behind the slider and got no air,and a streamer was the result. the solution was to cut a hole in the slider so the canopy would open.
  2. chuteshack
    if you had a canopy made of f111 and you had one made of zero p, and both were identical(made from same patterns, design, trim) EXCEPT for the fabric, would the zero p canopy open harder?
  3. chuteshack
    thats what i was thinkin, but hoped to save a few $.
  4. chuteshack
    i recently got a great deal on a double needle machine(partly because the seller had tried to reverse the rotation of the motor)the motor is not hooked up and i was wondering if any riggers , or anyone could maybe help me figure out what color wires go together so i can run this thing .
  5. chuteshack
    this was a replacement. i had to wait for the p.o. to trace the original, and give me the insurance money before i sent the replacement and in fact YOU DID order it with the hackey. you originally wanted it not attached,which i did not have time to fabricate special for you this time around. i have been making pilotchutes since 1977(probably before you were even born) ,and have multiple repeat customers.i just finished up an order of 10 for australia, for a repeat customer. yours is the only complaint i have ever received about the attachment. i work 60 hours a week on top of rigging and stuff, so this is a part time enterprise .
  6. chuteshack
    why not use a ballistically deployed chute such as second chantz?
  7. chuteshack
    that was the Steele brothers beech ..who are you? PM Me charlie mack
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    the old Applegarth NJ dropzone used to pay like 20 bucks to the farmers when jumpers landed there. (or so i have heard)it worked except for this one .then one nite that particular farmer decided to plow the pea gravel target under.one of the other farmers saw it and called the NJ State Police.one of the responding Troopers turned out to be Joe Imbriago, an Applegarth jumper...
  9. chuteshack
    i need a reasonable, and reliable source for hackey handles.
  10. chuteshack
    a mushroom cloud...from a hard landing in MUD?
  11. chuteshack
    check the hook for burrs
  12. chuteshack
    hope you dont break the needle shaft trying this UNAUTHORIZED repair. it will cost you dearly
  13. chuteshack
    could have been a HI TEK(forerunner to the FXC) they had lOTs of problems early on. The Sentinel Mk 2000 was introduced in 1971 so it wasnt one of those.
  14. chuteshack
    rob, i said SPORT , not military
  15. chuteshack
    I once replaced the main closing loop on a racer(it was just a piece of gutted 550 with a loop that was 18'' long, not finger trapped). everyone in loft agreed that it was dangerous as the loop COULD catch the corner of the main bag and trap it. we didnt even charge the guy for it. he went absolutely ballistic had to give him his old loop back , even after explaining to him the danger involved. you just cant satisfy some people.
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    i saw that scenario MANY times at the DZ
  17. chuteshack
    the second version of the sentinel was all newly manufactured , but again was just a simple altitude switch(1000 FT ACTIVATION ALTITUDE) which was manually turned on or off. this version had no altimeter and was designed to fit into the stopwatch hole on the instrument panel(which was mounted on top of your front mounted reserve).introduced in 1964. about 1965 the Sentry was introduced. it was a rate switch which mounted piggyback on the bottom of the sentinel .it would automatically turn the unit on when you reached 30% of terminal velocity and off when you slowed to less than 30% of terminal. it used the same power ripcord and cartridge that the original sentinel did
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    the first auto opener for skydiving was the Sentinel . designed and sold by Steve Snyder Enterprises in 1959. it was based on a canadian built altimeter an.d was basically just an altitude switch that was manually turned on at altitude before exit, and manually turned off after opening. electrical in nature, when the firing altitude of 1000 ft was reached , the altimeter needle would touch 2 contacts , mounted on the on/off quadrant . this would complete the circuit and fire a pyrotechnic cartridge mounted in the end of a barrel on the reserve ripcord.the gasses from the cartridge would expand and drive a piston , to which both reserve pins were attached, and withdraw them from the locking cones.
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    yes Pioneer Para Twin
  20. chuteshack
    i have it on good authority that the canopies were out of the freebags and almost fully inflated, but not enough time
  21. chuteshack
    try secondchantz.com
  22. chuteshack
    why Bill Booth? there are other people in the industry just as competent
  23. chuteshack
    the dacron you got from your swift reserve was a custom braid made by FWF Industries . FWF is no longer in business as the founder , freeman w frame died several years ago.
  24. chuteshack
    It's been 35 years today since you left us.We still miss you. Your friends from Ripcord Para Center
  25. chuteshack
    hey Pop, is n66278(the dga15 howard) the one that snyder used to own. is it still around somewhere?