TLob456 0 #1 February 2, 2012 I'm setting up my newly purchased (but heavily used) canopy with a new bag and pilot chute and was wondering how best to connect the new gear to the canopy attachment point. I've got a Kazar collapsible PC with a closed loop at the attachment end of the bridle. Can I just use the bag stop link from my old PC (rated to 3.5N/220lbs) and screw that on the canopy attachment point ring? That rating seems insufficient to me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indyz 1 #2 February 2, 2012 A 220lb link is either a hardware store link or the relatively rare #3.5 rapide link. If the bridle allows it, skip the link and just use a larks head knot. Otherwise use a #5 rapide link or bigger, or a slink. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pchapman 279 #3 February 2, 2012 Rough, late at night answer: A 3.5 link (3.5 mm diameter metal) might not even have the mouth width to go onto the canopy ring. Lark's head won't work if the kill line has a separate and small end loop (which I think is the way Cazer's are?), not sewn into the bridle. Yours could be a 3.5 mm thick regular steel link of 100 kg working load, that would be 220 lb or so, but a real Maillon would only have a kilogram marking on it, not pounds. Or it could be a stainless one, labelled "INOX" with a 220 kg working load. You don't seen plain steel 3.5's very much anway. All the Maillon rapide links have a working load with the real rated load 5 times higher. So even if it were a "220 lb" one, it would be good for 1100 lb. Maillon ratings are at http://www.peguet.fr/gb/produits/normal.html But given all that detail, I don't think it matters all that much. I've seen just about anything attaching the bag, whether a Slink, a home made soft link or just a cheap crappy hardware store link. The forces just aren't that high. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TLob456 0 #4 February 2, 2012 Cool, lark's head it is. Thanks guys Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
