Do most of you use the technique of Z-folding your harness (shock-cord) then wrapping with small lengths of masking tape?
But I have used rubber bands with good results on TK...
On a big rocket with a long cord it helps to keep things tidy. On smaller rockets I just stuff the cord in.
Exactly!
Hi Dan, How are you?
That's the challenge I'm trying this nose down configuration on the MWR. Drogue and main along a 50' harness.
...We pleated/Z-folded several bundles of six pleats and taped them. We used just a single wrap of blue tape and they came loose very easily.
Are you saying you bundled the bundles?
We didn't, we just left them as five or six individual bundles. To tighten things up you could wrap the individual bundles into one, but we had plenty of space. For our first flight we didn't do anything to the shock cord and it worked fine, but it did seem a lot more tangle-resistant with the pleated cord.
Anyone ever have a problem with the harness failing to "break" the tape and unfold?
Do most of you use the technique of Z-folding your harness (shock-cord) then wrapping with small lengths of masking tape?
Read through to the recovery section and you'll find the chutes failed to inflate fully due to too much masking tape holding them together.
Tony
Well they didn't have to wait long! It's pretty painful to watch the video but it mostly survived.Why did they tape the shroud lines? That sounds like disaster waiting to happen!
Well they didn't have to wait long! It's pretty painful to watch the video but it mostly survived.
I think I read that the taped the shroud lines to keep them organized but intended to remove or cut the tape before launch. Based on this and other examples, I try to never do anything that requires me to undo it later to have a successful launch. Learned to live within my organizational limitations.
Tony
I took teddy's suggestion on the rubber bands since I got tired of dinging all the bits of tape left on the harness and TK seams to pull the threads away from each other when ripping the tape off.
My kids have the little rubber band bracket loom.... And for some reason Dad stole and entire pack of the little rubber bands huh
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Man is that a nice harness set up,,, lol...
I use 1 rubberband per bundle Nick...
On the back side of the bundle, if that makes sense...
So that it's held together while you pack and in flight but pops off at the first bit of tension...
Teddy
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