weldingninja41 14 #1 Posted July 27, 2024 Does anyone have some pictures or actual drawings of some of the pocket sliders they have built in the past. Or pdf designs? I'm interested in making one for a Sabre 170. I really only do hop and pops with it but come across people asking about it. FYI, SENIOR RIGGER, multi rated Uspa instructor, S&TA here, not a 100 jump wonder trying to reinvent the wheel. Just interested Rodney Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gowlerk 2,190 #2 July 27, 2024 I can't find a drawing, but I did d/l a couple pictures years ago. Here you go. I never did actually make one, but I've certainly seen a few. I have found that the best thing to use on a Sabre 170 is the slider from a Sabre 2 170. It is 23"x31" as opposed to the 20"x31" used on the original and is a very common PD slider size used across many products in many sizes. Their line trim charts list slider measurements. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Veis 29 #3 July 27, 2024 We make a voluminous pockets for a speed skydiving, some heavy duty tandems and other, but we do not use grommets. Due to the high tensile force. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Veis 29 #4 July 27, 2024 https://youtu.be/1WYj2Q1yWTE HD opening (research test) from AN-26 at 300+ km/h. Nobody was hurt ) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerrob 643 #5 July 27, 2024 I have sewn pockets onto a variety of sliders for Sabre 1 - 135, 150 and 170. The easiest is Weird Wayne's pattern that starts with a strip of PD slider tape folded almost in half - perhaps 2/3. It gets a small strap at the middle (to prevent inversion). Wayne recommended installing sails on both the front and rear edges of the slide. I attempted sewing sails on all 4 edges of my Sabre 1-170, but soon removed that foolishness after a ridiculously slow opening during a hop-and-pop. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pchapman 279 #6 July 28, 2024 Those pics Gowler posted were either of a slider pocket that was already to be on a canopy of mine, or a slider pocket I made. (Thanks. I'm not looking up my old slider pocket posts; the question has come up a few times over the years.) The pockets shown are a bit unusual in that they just happen to be 'sewn down' across part of their width, to adjust the 'scoop' and canopy opening. Started with a big pocket; sewed down more as needed to speed up the opening again. The one on my Sabre 1 135, I don't think that one is sewn down at all! Riggerrob makes a good point about a simpler method. Or doing both front and back sails. Doing a 'proper' pocket with binding tape and ZP fabric is a bit of a pain without a proper binder setup. Since I didn't have that at times, sometimes I just sewed the binding tape to one side of the fabric as a faster option compared to actually folding it over the edge. Cruder but faster. The pocket is cut with the folded over part angling wider, when cut on the table (rather than just a big rectangle), so that when folded over it bulges to catch air better. Hope that makes sense to interpret. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Veis 29 #7 July 28, 2024 (edited) Some orders turn out to be redundant... Edited July 28, 2024 by Veis Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
weldingninja41 14 #8 July 29, 2024 (edited) On 7/27/2024 at 8:01 AM, gowlerk said: I can't find a drawing, but I did d/l a couple pictures years ago. Here you go. I never did actually make one, but I've certainly seen a few. I have found that the best thing to use on a Sabre 170 is the slider from a Sabre 2 170. It is 23"x31" as opposed to the 20"x31" used on the original and is a very common PD slider size used across many products in many sizes. Their line trim charts list slider measurements. This is the kind of thing I have seen before, and wort of what I was thinking of doing. The top (red) is closer to what I'm gonna try out. Thanks everyone. Edited July 29, 2024 by weldingninja41 Added thank you Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites