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    • glench
      New quad flyer ... and leaders???

      By glench · Posted

      I now have a Rev NYM, and this is my first post. I really hope you won't mind my (beginners)conversation! Once I erased every lesson I ever learned flying a 2-string, it hasn't been hard to learn the basics. Here's my first question for you folks: there seems to be universal agreement that lengthening the top lines helps control. And yet, I have been SHORTENING my top lines, perhaps because I often have minimal or squirrelly winds. I found that I was having to crank back my wrists to a level of discomfort and shortening the top lines allows me to straighten out my grip a bit. I'd love to hear any comments on this subject. I appreciate it! I suppose that I might mention also, that the Rev videos are invaluable to me. Many of you are past them, but I'm not and I don't have a kite community here in Austin Texas, and so no teacher either. Hopefully if I keep flying someone will walk up and go "oh, I fly a quad too!"
    • stunt kite hawiian
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      By stunt kite hawiian · Posted

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    • dbarras
      Greetings From Rhode Island

      By dbarras · Posted

      That is good to know, Thanks for the tip !
    • Caller Stephen
      Kite repair

      By Caller Stephen · Posted

      Hi Windward, Looking very closely at the photograph I am not sure that it is stiches that have failed but the material that makes the pocket has frayed and pulled through the stitches. If that is the case then you will need to do something to stop the fraying continuing. i think that this means bonding the warp to the weft of the pocket fabric so you donot have a raw edge. if the edges of the pocket material are raw edges and the material is dacron, polyester or similar then it might have originally been heat cut/sealed to melt the raw edges to prevent fraying. it does not look like heat sealing the edge of the fray is an option for you unless you are very brave as you have little material to work with. Fortunately the fray is at the open end of the pocket and not too severe. I would try the superglue on the edge of the pocket material to bond the warp and weft threads together and stop the fraying getting any worse. The pocket material edge is very close to the stich line on that side so anything that you can do to reinforce the warp/weft bond strenth will help. Worst case will be replacing the pocket eventually if the fray works further down the side. For openweave fabrics there is a glue called Fray Stop to prevent the unravelling of raw edges but i would not suggest using it for kites. Cheers Stephen                      
    • RobB
      Greetings From Rhode Island

      By RobB · Posted

      There's a kite group that flies just about every weekend at Brenton Point State Park. If you can make it down there, you'll find some nice people that would be real interested to see your find...
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