SAKA X?

[JontreeHI]

Couple pieces of the big shot tubing that comes w the elastrator keep it pretty tidy

 

[monkeylove]

Just saying, 1/2" blocks the user can custom build to length. Accessory cord to hold blocks together and keeper slots for the spring cord. Screw it, forget the center hole lets just make them snap and unsnap together so it packs better.

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

Just saying, 1/2" blocks the user can custom build to length. Accessory cord to hold blocks together and keeper slots for the spring cord. Screw it, forget the center hole lets just make them snap and unsnap together so it packs better.
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Very cool! Looks like it would go well with the two fixed ends of the double bungee design.

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

Lightweight plastic?

 

[monkeylove]

Lightweight plastic?

That was my thought, would be a cheap and easy mold.

 

[Pelorus]

Modding and mating appropriate terminations to a Dan House cambium saver to affix the ascender and biner/foot loop on the other end could mebbe do away with the rubber webbing thing altogether. The SAKA dyneema bungees would run protected inside Dan's conduit.
Could call it the SAKA Dan.

 

[oldoakman]

That was my thought, would be a cheap and easy mold.

Instead of a knee ascender, call it Leggo-Up.

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

Instead of a knee ascender, call it Leggo-Up.

Leg-go-Up...fast

 

[SomethingWitty]

Instead of a knee ascender, call it Leggo-Up.

I think a lesson may have been learned about those patents/copyrights that would prohibit this....

 

[WaitakKauri]

Just saying, 1/2" blocks the user can custom build to length. Accessory cord to hold blocks together and keeper slots for the spring cord. Screw it, forget the center hole lets just make them snap and unsnap together so it packs better.
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Ohhh, unclip and fold in half....held together with SAKA magnets.

 

[ARLO]

This is starting to remind me of a knee ascender that my old buddy Bill Price designed out of a piece of 1/2" PVC pipe. There was no bungie at all. Just a piece of strong cord that was attached to the bottom of the ascender and ran down thru the pipe to the stirrup It flexed at the stirrup attachment and kind of wobbled around, but it did more or less push the knee ascender up each time he raised his foot.

 

[NE Tree]

This is starting to remind me of a knee ascender that my old buddy Bill Price designed out of a piece of 1/2" PVC pipe. There was no bungie at all. Just a piece of strong cord that was attached to the bottom of the ascender and ran down thru the pipe to the stirrup It flexed at the stirrup attachment and kind of wobbled around, but it did more or less push the knee ascender up each time he raised his foot.

I tried something similar. Made essentially a stiff tether out of that Marlow heat shrink stuff. It worked pretty well but I found that everytime I bent down it would poke me in the balls so it had to go.

 

[jmaher]

I tried something similar. Made essentially a stiff tether out of that Marlow heat shrink stuff. It worked pretty well but I found that everytime I bent down it would poke me in the balls so it had to go.

Fondled your balls? I'll take two.

 

[Brocky]

I found this in some notes taken from an issue of Nylon Highway, seems like this is a common solution

 

[Tom Dunlap]

View attachment 39441 I found this in some notes taken from an issue of Nylon Highway, seems like this is a common solution

Nice find!

What is the date of the illustration?

 

[tc262]

Nice find!

What is the date of the illustration?

Its written on the back of a receipt, might be able to read the date if someone wants to examine it closely.

 

[Brocky]

I don't know the date, it was several years ago and I didn't date it. The receipt is from last week, I redrew the notes on it.

The Nylon Highway is a publication of the National Speleological Society, and the issues that are sold out are available to read online. Anybody interested in the early SRT should check them out.

In issue #26 there is an article about the device shown in my avatar.

 

[Brocky]

The Freddy B System is also in issue # 26, April 1988.