j-3 question

[mraviation1 0]

This may be a little hard to descibe but I'll do my best. I have a J-3 container (D.O.M 1996) and I am a little conserned about the main release housings. All of the javs I have seen have both housings routed to the inside of the chest straps, mine has one routed on the outside and protrudes past the chest strap. I don't like the idea that it could get snagged on something. I cannot change this because of a bar tack that is is routed though. Any advise with be apprietated

[OmriMon 0]

i was just going through the jav owners manual and it shows there how to route the housing properly
"NOTE: that the release cable should be routed to the outside of the bar tacks on the user's left front yoke"
"The longer you freefly - The longer your beard is"

[skybytch 273]

That doesn't sound like the correct routing to me, but give Sunpath a call and get your answer from the source. They know more about Javelin's than anyone else...
pull and flare,
lisa

[riggerrob 643]

He just described the correct routing of the left release cable on a Javelin.
The cable goes straight up from the release handle, between the two layers of the chest strap, under the right 3-ring cover, up the inboard edge of the right side of the yoke, over the reserve ripcord, over to the left outboard edge of the left side of the yoke. The release cable exits at the left side of the left 3-rings, curves behind the 3-ring and curves up the inboard side of 3-ring to meet the riser.
It is the same routing with soft or hard housings. An easy way to confirm is to look at the remnants of the stitching for the old soft housings on the outboard edge of the left side of the yoke.
As an aside, I never believed that soft housings were a problem by themselves. The problem was mis-routing. The mis-routing problem began when the manufacturer released a new concept without diagrams. I had to read the Javelin manual three times before I understood how to route release cables through their soft housings. Few other people had that much patience.

[OmriMon 0]

i hate to disagree but the owners manual shows something different than what u just describes
attached is the diagram i scanned from the owners manual
"The longer you freefly - The longer your beard is"