Shembiner - screw upgrade

ATH

ATH

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I've been using a piece of throw line tied between the upper hole and lower hole to keep the Shembiner from coming off. Every now and then it would slide off the webbing and hang oddly by the line. Never loved it, but it worked. Then this week that throwline piece frayed, so time for something different.

My first plan was to drill through both sides, tap it and put a set screw that would be threaded into both.

When I went to look for that, I found a "screw post" (I learned it as a sex screw...).

Drilled a 9/64" hole first through both, then an 11/64" hold in just the "outside" as the female part is bigger diameter. (Disadvantage of doing it that way is the screw head is on the inside and hard to get a screwdriver on. However I didn't want to put a bigger hold than necessary on the bottom. The easy solution to that was gently squeezing the 2 pieces together with pliers, hand tightening the screw, then releasing the pressure and the screw was tight.

Edit to add: should have used the 3/8" long instead of 1/4" long. Will probably do that before I put it on the saddle. Will give a few extra threads to grab, but not be too long...may keep this female part, but use the longer male screw. I should also mention, the diameter was wider than the biner, so I just filed it down...it is Al, so that was easy.

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I like that! I quit using my Shembiner because it kept falling off, that might just inspire me to reinstall it to my saddle!
 
good idea ath!!! i been using one on my tm for a cpl years now and never used throwline or anything to keep it in place and its never come out of the slot.
where are you putting your shembiner on your tm??
 
Mowerr said:
good idea ath!!! i been using one on my tm for a cpl years now and never used throwline or anything to keep it in place and its never come out of the slot.
where are you putting your shembiner on your tm??
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Saddle is at the shop and I'm at home...but here is a pic I had posted in the past. That is kinda towards the front of the left waist.
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Where is yours?
 
i put it in the slots that i thought were designed for caritools and stuff like this. i put it only through the leather and not the webbing. i think somebody on here once showed a lot of wear on their webbing when they had the webbing and leather trapped in theirs.
 
Mowerr said:
i put it in the slots that i thought were designed for caritools and stuff like this. i put it only through the leather and not the webbing. i think somebody on here once showed a lot of wear on their webbing when they had the webbing and leather trapped in theirs.
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Do you have a pic. I'm not sure which slots you mean.
Thanks!
 
ATH said:
I've been using a piece of throw line tied between the upper hole and lower hole to keep the Shembiner from coming off. Every now and then it would slide off the webbing and hang oddly by the line. Never loved it, but it worked. Then this week that throwline piece frayed, so time for something different.

My first plan was to drill through both sides, tap it and put a set screw that would be threaded into both.

When I went to look for that, I found a "screw post" (I learned it as a sex screw...).

Drilled a 9/64" hole first through both, then an 11/64" hold in just the "outside" as the female part is bigger diameter. (Disadvantage of doing it that way is the screw head is on the inside and hard to get a screwdriver on. However I didn't want to put a bigger hold than necessary on the bottom. The easy solution to that was gently squeezing the 2 pieces together with pliers, hand tightening the screw, then releasing the pressure and the screw was tight.

Edit to add: should have used the 3/8" long instead of 1/4" long. Will probably do that before I put it on the saddle. Will give a few extra threads to grab, but not be too long...may keep this female part, but use the longer male screw. I should also mention, the diameter was wider than the biner, so I just filed it down...it is Al, so that was easy.

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Sweet hack! what a cool idea
 
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ATH said:
I've been using a piece of throw line tied between the upper hole and lower hole to keep the Shembiner from coming off. Every now and then it would slide off the webbing and hang oddly by the line. Never loved it, but it worked. Then this week that throwline piece frayed, so time for something different.

My first plan was to drill through both sides, tap it and put a set screw that would be threaded into both.

When I went to look for that, I found a "screw post" (I learned it as a sex screw...).

Drilled a 9/64" hole first through both, then an 11/64" hold in just the "outside" as the female part is bigger diameter. (Disadvantage of doing it that way is the screw head is on the inside and hard to get a screwdriver on. However I didn't want to put a bigger hold than necessary on the bottom. The easy solution to that was gently squeezing the 2 pieces together with pliers, hand tightening the screw, then releasing the pressure and the screw was tight.

Edit to add: should have used the 3/8" long instead of 1/4" long. Will probably do that before I put it on the saddle. Will give a few extra threads to grab, but not be too long...may keep this female part, but use the longer male screw. I should also mention, the diameter was wider than the biner, so I just filed it down...it is Al, so that was easy.

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Great idea... I did the same thing with some small tech cord I had laying around. Felt the same way about it. I'm going to try this.
 
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