how much would you pay for a smoke/camera foot mount??

[anabatic 0]

this bracket that will allow you to mount a smoke canister on the side and a GO-PRO camera on the toe, or just a smoke canister on the side, or a camera on the side or toe!!! what do you think about all that pictures will be be up by monday next week finishing touches are being put into place by the end of the week!!! let me know what you all think, i need some input!!!

Thanks

[diablopilot 2]

$0.

I've made them for free.

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You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

[councilman24 37]

You've got a lot of individual designs that are time/jump tested to overcome. Us old farts are cheap and make our own. It would need to walk on water and be under $50.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

[billvon 2,990]

$20. $40 if it was really cool.

[Skwrl 56]

FYI, a problem with a lot of designs (e.g., Bonehead's) is that they don't really work well with wingsuits.

I had one that the manufacturer (not Bonehead) told me should be strapped on OVER the wingsuit's bootie. I had to fly in a weird position to compensate for the pinched bootie. Needless to say, on my first deployment with it, I watched the 60 Euro shoe bracket and the smoke grenade it was carrying fly clean off my foot and tumble a few thousand feet... Thankfully I was over a wooded area, so nobody was hit by the hunk of aluminum falling from the sky, and the smoke canister was one of those ParaGear style, relatively cool ones, not the military ones I've used, so I didn't get a visit from the local fire marshal. (I was nevertheless really thankful at that moment for the third party insurance coverage USPA provides for us, I can assure you.)

After that disaster, I came up with various designs that work better with wingsuits (the so-called "SkwrlShoe v 1.0, v2.0 and vPi"). These basically were sneakers with struts of various lengths bolted into the heel.

One other thing to keep in mind is that not all smoke is equal. You can do a short span for ParaGear style smoke (or even touching the foot - I've jumped ParaGear smoked duct taped to my foot - it's not that bad). If you're jumping military form factor grenades, though, it's a different story. They go BOOM and spew fire like you wouldn't believe. (I have video here of one with my friend ground testing one here: http://vimeo.com/5416406.) You really don't want that touching your foot; the SkwrlShoe version Pi that I used for jumping the military smoke grenades had a four inch span between the foot and the grenade holder, and even then I could feel the heat in free fall.

That presents a similar problem for GoPro on the foot designs, by the way - in order to get a "not completely shitty" angle form the foot in a wingsuit, you need a strut that gets the camera at least a few inches - preferably 6 to 8 inches - away from the body - many designs don't take that into account.

Anyway, best of luck; let me know what you come up with.

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