Kite Strings

FTHI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u51qpPLz5U0

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http://www.kitestrings.org/post5992.html#p5992

Lockout.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdE5DyqfUCg

There must be some way to get high quality releases out to glider drivers.

Cool.

I'm guessing this thing

http://estore.hanglide.com/Aerotow_Primary_Release_p/14-9004.htm

is hard to open for the same reason as a curved pin barrel release. Is that accurate?

If so then modifying the design to a straight pin style gate would seem to help.

I get were you're coming from now. I think I botched this whole thread up and probably insulted you in the process.

What bungee?

I mistook the tensioner for a bungee.

I say that only because I have a feeling that Wills Wing is comfortable with CNC stuff.

So how to get something designed, built and tested?
I'm thinking the thing needs to be carved out of aluminum on a CNC mill.
Is that reasonable?

So here is my design idea, tell me what you think. Let's start with a one inch diameter aluminum rod, six inches long. Drill a hole on each end perpendicular to its length. One hole for attaching to the glider the other for the bungee. Next, install a two inch long barrel over this rod. Now just to ...

(Is there the slightest chance that Ridgerodent and Nobody have the same USHGA membership number?)

I don't know how that happened, must be a mix up with USHGA. Steve is my other brother.