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My takeaway is that the way the carabiner is loaded has a lot to do with the ultimate strength.
From an engineering point of view, I rather liked the gate latch design on the cheapo lookalike found at Wal-mart. I wouldn’t use that one, but the overlapping notches looks like it would spread the load over more square whatevers than the design on the more expensive biners that had little projections on each side. That kept being the failure point for the gate.
That overlapping design has the drawback that it doesn’t take any load until the carabiner deforms a little and there might be some loading range where the whole carabiner could stretch and take a set and not want to open anymore, but for me, that last might be a feature, not a bug.
My other thought related to the other end of the gate. I think a couple extra grams making the gate longer so the pivot could have a little more material between the pin and the end of the gate would probably raise the point of failure. It’s always going to fail *somewhere*, but some of those failures looked like a slot.
Interestingly, if you go to https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/235048.shtml?gm_track#contents
and checkmark the ‘track’ feature, so it shows a black line in the middle of the predictive cone, then zoom way in on the map, it looks like the middle of the likely path goes very, very close to the LZ and launch.
Of course that doesn’t mean that’s where it will actually go, but it’s funny to see that prediction.
Not unexpected, but still sad.
In the late 70s and early 80s, Kenny, Mike Wall, Steve and I flew together a lot.
We met him at Marshall. He’d parked his station wagon in the middle of the setup area. It was obviously a hang glider pilot’s car. But whose? As we were setting up, he came in to top land, and his approach set him down on the roof of his car. Which would have been a pretty neat trick, if he had managed a no-stepper, but he didn’t. He ran down the windshield and the hood and did a pretty good no-damage whack.
As far as I know, that was where he acquired the sobriquet ‘Crash’. He wore it as a badge of honor for several years, then I think he got a little tired of it.
I remember him slicing out the prototypes of SlingWings from foam egg cartons on the coffee table at Kenny’s house.
He and I independently discovered ‘The Rock’, down in Rubidoux. The road to the top was terribly washed out, and I could only get about halfway up, so I hiked the rest of the way to fly it.
Steve must have been out of town when I showed it to Kenny and Mike. I told them we’d have to hike halfway, and they were really skeptical… and then some kids came by with a dirt go-kart. They wanted to see people fly, and we didn’t want to hike any more than we had to, so they took the equipment up.
The day was successful enough that a day or two later Mike, Kenny and I were back fixing up the road with shovels.
Then a week or so after that, Steve wants to show us this cool new site he found in Rubidoux.
Sprinklers come on at 9:15 pm.
Works for me.
The club has a generator in the Gator container.
I find all these posts by David Webb to be highly suspicious.
That was Dusty Rhodes. A clever visual reminder. But it seems to have fallen on, to mix metaphors, deaf ears.
No mice caught for several days now.
I think they’d need access to either green stuff or water.
I’m not going to move everything out. Maybe Luke can organize that.
Again, I don’t mind helping from time to time, but I’m not taking on a project that size.I don’t know. When I went to put the traps in, someone had used a nut and bolt in addition to the lock. That didn’t seem to help.
There’s probably a floor drain somewhere. I don’t know what would have changed.
Another mouse in the trap on Thursday. So far, all have been in the trap on the front left side.
I don’t know how, but one trap took out a mouse and a smaller mouse with one snap.
I reset it.Smells very pepperminty in #2.
Okay. Well, I removed the vegetation in the doors and stuck some traps in every box.
Dusty sprayed a peppermint based rodent repellent around. You’d have to ask him exactly where.
I checked yesterday and no dead mice in mousetraps.No. I don’t mind doing things to help, but I left the site coordinator job.
Frankly, I didn’t see a lot of mouse droppings, but I wasn’t looking really hard.
There must be a local that has a glider in there that can monitor the mousetraps and reset them as necessary.
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