GammoRay

In under the wire! You have a 20% chance to win! Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app

Only one more day! I guess all you SLKers are waiting to the last minute— but this ain't eBay and eSniping won't do you any good, so jump "in"! If my RNG buddy draws your number early and you let me know your info and bridle preference, I'll have it in the mail tomorrow! Keep the karma kool! Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app

Six days to go! The next kiter "in" would have a 20% chance of having this kite in the mail next week! Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app

New Tech 6.5-ft Cascade Delta - Summer Colors SKU: 50350 Sail: Ripstop Nylon Frame: Fiberglass Size: W 78" x 180" / 198 x 457cm Wind Range: 5-20mph Flying Line: 50# Line Included* Tail: Wide Streamers I love this kite! Put the spreader in, attach the line, and let her soar! This keelless delta will fly nearly overhead, but won't overfly due to it’s three long flo-tails. Once overhead, this kite does not pull hard, and you can hand it to your three-year-old. No longer made by New Tech. (Probably now only available from Kite Guys.) Never flown! You can have this kite one of two ways: Stock— as is, right out of the bag! Suitable for winds of 5–10 mph. (*Line upgraded to 100# hollow-braided dyneema Dacron with heavy grip winder/handle.) Beach ready— Suitable for both light and stronger winds. I remove the tie loop and make an adjustable bridle, waxed for grip. I’ll do it for you or tell you how! == All you have to do to be entered to win is reply to the post titled **KARMA** and say “I’m in!” == I’ll give it 2 weeks, and then I’ll use the RNG to choose the winner. I’ll grab the post # (in the upper right corner) from your initial post to input. Only the first post where you join will count in the drawing. I’ll post the winner and ask them to PM me a shipping address. Now here’s where the Karma comes in. IF YOU WANT TO JOIN TO WIN, YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO PAY IT FORWARD! If you are the winner of this just made lineset, PM me a shipping address and I’ll send it to you anywhere in the lower 48 US States. Then IT”S YOUR TURN! You must start a new post with the title just like this one. **KARMA** And give something away! It can be a hat, a kite stake, a kite or anything kite related. Some winners will give small prizes, and some will give larger, but it’s all about the giving. Give away something that you would like to receive. When you do your random drawing, post the winner and ask them to PM you an address, and send out their prize! Now it’s their turn! Some rules and guidelines: Don’t play unless you’re willing to put up a prize and ship it to whoever wins. Shipping is paid by the original poster, the winner pays nothing. Be prepared to ship your prize anywhere in the lower 48 US States. Sorry, but due to shipping costs, we really have to limit this to the lower 48 US States. RULE CHANGE (7/31/2014): Members from Canada, Alaska, and Hawaii are welcome to enter the Karma drawings provided they are willing to pay half of the Karma prize shipping cost. The method and timing of the payment will be agreed upon between the two parties after the drawing for a particular prize. You can choose the length of the giveaway, but keep it between 1 and 2 weeks. Try to ship the prize promptly. You should be able to ship it within a week, but if you can’t, PM the winner and let them know. Sometimes life gets in the way! This whole thing works on the honor system so if there are any problems shipping or receiving a prize, it needs to be worked out between the two parties. Don’t forget…Karma! This isn’t a competition, but feel free to be generous! If you can only put up a hat, or a tail for a stunt kite, great! If you have something in your kite bag that you never fly and would be willing to ship, that’s great too. Either way, the people that join to win it will appreciate it. When you receive your prize, post a thank you to the thread where you won it. The thread will be locked after that point so the new **KARMA** stays above it. Good luck, and have fun! entrants: 1. zachprism01 2. Paramedic 3. Mikelp3586 4. Mike Klaiber 5. Materdaddy 6. Ed Ang

It's got to be legit! I won! [emoji6][emoji106]

Hot looking kite! (Which is extraordinary for such cool colors!) Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app

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Watch the StormForce video! Will hold two tons of pull at 45 deg (like a "bigly" kite pulls)! Each tie-down comes with a big yellow rope (safety!) and you can larkshead over the knot or attach a climbing carabiner and use a tugboat hitch: http://www.animatedknots.com/lightermans/index.php http://www.stormforcetiedowns.com/Storm-Force-XL-Advanced-Aircraft-Tie-Down-Kit_p_10.html Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app

For really big or hard-pulling kites, the hook is not secure enough and carabiners get hot from friction. For such kites, spend a bit more for a removable pulley! Lock it with a climbing carabiner or a rope larkshead and use the "lock" as your handle. https://www.gombergkites.com/line.html Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app

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To keep a delta or other kite from overflying, do one of the following: • Attach the line on the delta's keel or kite's bridle closer to the tail! (Attaching closer to the nose tends to cause overflight and should be used only in higher winds where overflight is no problem.) • Attach drag to the tail end of the kite. Drag can be anything that catches the wind— flat tails, tube tails, fuzzy tails, drogue, spinner, wind sock, etc. Attaching to the spine will steer the kite into the wind most efficiently. Attaching two identical tails to the kite wingtips is possible if perfectly balanced, but a fuzzy tail looped from one wingtip to the other maintains equal drag at all times (and uses half the sky of long tails— good for crowded fests). Attaching weight or drag to the line (laundry) anywhere below the tow point does nothing to cure overflight and may actually encourage it by effectively shortening the tow line, lessening the distance the kite must fly to achieve its overfly angle! Do one of the methods mentioned above! Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app

http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/discuss/index.php?p=/discussion/5259/kite-regulations-an-open-discussion

http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/discuss/index.php?p=/discussion/1623/when-where-or-is-it-legal-to-fly-a-kite-over-500-in-the-us

Aww! Nice sentiment! I hope you and every other subscriber are so lucky as to come in a close second! There. That makes me feel better. ;-{>

Oh, boy! Red! To match my eyes in the morning!

… or somethin'!

John lives on the west coast. It's still midnight there… or somethin'!

I hope my technique is better than your friends in the video, but, yes, it feels like that sometimes!

It really does lift once you get it up! And hard to walk down in winds over 20 mph. Go big on the line!

I don't know what you mean by "bold" line, but I had the Killip on a white 1/4" 1,100-lb line, with the fish kites/laundry run up it on a black 500-lb line. (I wish I had put the Killip on an 1,800-lb line because the winds rose from a little under 15 knots to more than 22, gusting to 24! The larger rope would have been much easier to handle when walking the kite down sideways on the narrow beach.) For scale, the pink shark kite is 20' long, and the black fish (24' long kite) is only half way up the white line. Technically, the Killip is not lifting here, but providing a rock-steady taut line to keep my fish corralled on a crowded beach of flyers. The fish kites and laundry were difficult enough to pull down in the high winds without fighting the Killip at the same time.

Looks too cool, but the commute would kill me!

I have a Tony Killip 90 (Premier) that is a great showpiece and a monster lifter! I've had it a year and I am thrilled— it pulls like a truck and is as stable as a rock!

Lawyers! %+#$@!

Can't see the video. What's SME?

These downspouts are 10' in length, so you could cut three 40" (1 m) tubes, or two 36" and a 48", or even two 60" tubes. Also, 3"x4"x10' vinyl downspout is available for $11.96 at my local Home Depot.