Generally speaking official way to seat your pin?

[trackalacal 0]

Hey guys i have seen a few different ways to seat your main pin.

1) Half way with the pin making a slimly face
2) More then half way so it is as far away from the end as possible.

What is the official way ? what ever your manual says with the gear i guess but what happens if you dont have one.

I understand that pro and cons for both but is there a standard way to do this?

I found this below when i searched.

The curved pin allows the pin to rotate out of the loop against the gromment even when pulled at 90 degrees. IF IT ISN'T SEATED TOO FAR!. Push your cured pin in all the way to the eye AS A TEST. Turn it down flat and hold it flat with a finger. Pull on the pin with the bridle on the opposite side from the blade of the pin. It can also jam like a straight pin when this is done. Some earlier curved pins had the eye on the inside of the circumference of the curve of the pin. This really couldn't happen as easily with them. But they were made out of wire that could corrode. Other curved pins were plated. Sometimes the plating would start to flake and the pin could catch on the bridle with the edge of the plating.

The current stainless pin is nice, but I'd prefer one with the eye inside the circumference and one completely round rather than smoothed over sheet stock. Price is probably in the way of a pin like that.

With pull out main deployment systems the jumper pulls the pin with the handle and extracts the PC. So they use a straight pin because the pull is in line with the pin.

The direction of the pull of a reserve pin is inline with the pin itself. The placement of the ripcord housing and it being secured ensures the direction of the pull. Also most RSL have a guide ring that also directs the pull of the RSL on the cable to be in the direction of the pin.

The difference is a PC pulling the curved pin at 90 degrees versus the ripcord pulling the staight pin in line.


Thank you

[gowlerk 2,251]

I saw a container lock happen this way in Eloy this year. The fully seated curved pin was making a frown, not a smile, in a Talon. The ST&A (Dave) was the first person to get to the site of the safe reserve landing.

He said that he had never seen this before, the pin looked just fine, and that he would not give it a second thought on a pin check. But he pulled hard on the bridle and the pin would not budge.

I still bury my pin, but for what it's worth it's always making a smile. But I believe that a pin lock is still possible.

Ken

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[mjosparky 4]

What does your manual say?

Sparky

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