Murph

Great example of the Axel guys.

 

Being a right hander myself, I seem to have a leaning to doing a smoother axel when flying the Rev from right to left, but working on left to right ones over the last while.

 

Speaking of Axels, another one I've been trying to do (never seen anyone doing it as yet) and its probably near impossible but what about 'back to back axels' (or near) in opposite rotations ...I've had varying degrees of success, nothing I'd show on video mind you LOL.

 

Double Axel: I had a go at a friends Rev2 sometime back and noticed that I could get two full rotations of the kite from one pop ..but the thing with the Rev2 is that its so fast you'd actually have to view it in slo-mo to count the rotations

 

Chris

Actually sorry didn't read that properly.

 

Your problem was with the top verticals!!!

 

...I was thinking you were talking about the o-rings located on the bottom vertical on the rear of the sail. I'm thinking that those little hinge covers might not work on the top verticals ...not sure it'd leave enough space to get the bungee through twice, though you could use two ...but I think that might be a botch job, not for the likes of using on a pro, me thinks.

 

The other options from other forum members made a lot of sense, I think. But the hinge cover should be one you keep in mind for if or when the rear sail ones do go.

 

Chris

I feel your pain Steven ...and on a pro too, ouch.

 

As has been said already the older Revs used rubber o-rings or cut off rubber hose, have had to replace them before on a very very old Rev and then again on a printed Rev that arrive without any o-rings on. 

 

So if you've ever ripped out kitchen cabinets from your house, you'll have noticed the use of these small 'hinge hole cover caps' ...the ones on our cabinets were mahogany colored but if that doesn' fit your look, eBay has them in black too. You can use either the cap (drill a hole in them) or the plug end (which has a hole in it already.

 

 

BTW I for one never tire of hearing all those old stories of what kite makers had to 'make do' with, of those bits'n'bobs they found around the house, workshop, or even eye'ing up bits from their kids toys ...the time before we had all these off the shelf parts to hand.

 

Anyways hope thats of some help.

 

Chris

Ney, they are a very fine kites they've got themselves there. Having had the pleasure to fly with both Bill & Maureen ...they were nice enough to let me fly their new mid-vents, well when backs were turned .....ohhh really really, am soo so envious, smooth, precise, what workmanship ...OK I'll stop for now

Colour scheme!? Being a recent blow-in to Columbus (and the US for that matter) ...the whole college football thing, especially the 'OSU vs. Michigan state' ...it kinda took me by surprise. On seeing the following on my way from campus a few days before the big game, I naively thought that the sign had just been vandalised, until I saw more and more signs with M's been x'ed-out. MacDonalds restaurant managers in Columbus must not look forward to when this weekend rolls around

Just a thought but maybe on THE big game weekend ...we'll fly with red-X's over the offending colours

All good fun!!!

BTW am working on my americanized spelling, but its taking time hehe!

Chris