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weldingninja41

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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

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

pocket1.JPG

pocket2.jpg

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.

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Added thank you

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