Re: Skyting demolition
Posted: 2014/09/10 18:03:25 UTC
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=31747
Lockout
What are you worried about? That:
- it won't break when it's supposed to - like Roy Messing's didn't?
- his straight pin release would be overloaded? No, you didn't give a flying fuck about Bart Weghorst's bent pin piece of crap welding itself shut under normal tow loading.
- it's too light and he might be inconvenienced? You didn't have a single comment about Zack Marzec being inconvenienced by his Rooney Link.
- a double loop of 205 - which I'll call four hundred pounds which is what "many of us are now using" via a loop of 200 on the pro toad bridle end - will blow the glider?
How come you're scrutinizing this one individual to this extent while you're giving a couple of decades worth of Industry bullshit, death, and destruction a total free pass?
Lockout
He just works like the Aerotow Industry - calls it anything he feels like.Red Howard - 2014/09/10 14:21:02 UTC
Micheal170,
What is the breaking strength of your weak link?
Is that a tested value, using all actual towing hardware, or is it theoretical?
Not if you position the knot so that it's hidden from the main tension in the link. Then it's excluded altogether from the equation.Sharp bends and knots can weaken any line significantly.
What's your purpose in asking michael this crap? We've had over two decades worth of total moronic rot about weak link strengths and purposes which reached its zenith with fourteen pages of total shit by Dr. Trisa Tilletti in the 2012/06 issue of the magazine and virtually no one so much as batted an eye in response.What knot do you use in the weak link?
(I guess a picture would have floated my boat, there.)
Thanks.
What are you worried about? That:
- it won't break when it's supposed to - like Roy Messing's didn't?
- his straight pin release would be overloaded? No, you didn't give a flying fuck about Bart Weghorst's bent pin piece of crap welding itself shut under normal tow loading.
- it's too light and he might be inconvenienced? You didn't have a single comment about Zack Marzec being inconvenienced by his Rooney Link.
- a double loop of 205 - which I'll call four hundred pounds which is what "many of us are now using" via a loop of 200 on the pro toad bridle end - will blow the glider?
How come you're scrutinizing this one individual to this extent while you're giving a couple of decades worth of Industry bullshit, death, and destruction a total free pass?