elnica - 9-6-2019 at 05:06 PM
Safety (flag out) line snapped. Anyone have a new one for sale? Must have gotten caught on the bar or something because I didnt flag out the kite,
just all of a sudden snapped. Thanks.
jeffnyc - 10-6-2019 at 10:35 AM
If you need to make one, it's just a shorter line loop to looped to a loop set in your flying line (make it a bit longer so there's a bit of slack -
there's no tension on it, so it shrinks over time).
elnica - 15-6-2019 at 09:30 PM
Not sure why I didn't think of that! thanks, I'll give it a try. Only difference I can think of is the bungee and knot but I have a stopper ball
laying around so the line will just sag a bit more than usual.
Kamikuza - 15-6-2019 at 10:35 PM
"bungy"
You mean the mini-5th line? Pretty sure it's just regular front line er line. All of mine I ended up cutting and splicing in a new line for the bottom
meter or so.
Otherwise, contact Flysurfer for an OEM part, or powerzonekitesports for a custom at a good price
jeffnyc - 16-6-2019 at 08:24 PM
lol - I was wondering why that extra spliced line was there! Did you add those because they wore? I thought that might be a good idea to splice a
slightly heavier line. (I have a couple of Kami's old bars)
And Kamikuza is right - no stopper ball or bungee. Just 1 line with a loop on each end that goes from QR to the loop spliced into a flying line. The
FS hole through the quick release is tiny, so just make sure whatever you go with (preferably 1 single line) moves cleanly through there, no extra
knots or large splices if you can help it. Bungee would be too thick to move through there.
jeffnyc - 18-6-2019 at 12:30 PM
Just to add to this... I'm actually doing a Q power line build right now - I noticed you use that elnica ... so that poses some extra considerations.
Someone on kite forum suggested an figure 8 bend to attach the FLS (since you can't splice Q-power). I will give that a go unless someone has some
other idea/experience.
Kamikuza - 18-6-2019 at 08:45 PM
Yeh they were wearing thin or shrinking too much and I had spare line. Which was cheaper than getting a new one :D
I think the later bars had a bungy, but it was right at top, behind the stopper knot.