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where and how do store your rig??
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Have you landed off and ridden back in the back of a pickup? I've been picked up by passersby who had a lot of stuff in the floor and bed of the truck. Battery acid would be possible in that situation.
I saw another situation where someone spilled something in the packing room on a canopy that almost melted the fabric. Luckly it was notice before it was packed and the panel was replaced by PD.
Sometime later a normal series of openings or a single hard openings could have stressed the weaken fabric and caused the failure.
Blue skies,
Jim
I saw another situation where someone spilled something in the packing room on a canopy that almost melted the fabric. Luckly it was notice before it was packed and the panel was replaced by PD.
Sometime later a normal series of openings or a single hard openings could have stressed the weaken fabric and caused the failure.
Blue skies,
Jim
It you feel around the damage and don’t feel any stiffness or hard rough texture it is not likely to be deployment damage.
The way you have described the fibers being stretched and the one tear being “L” shaped sounds like it is ground damage. Snagging the canopy on something or dragging it across something.
Sparky
The way you have described the fibers being stretched and the one tear being “L” shaped sounds like it is ground damage. Snagging the canopy on something or dragging it across something.
Sparky
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Non-collapisble PC looks to be 35-36 inches. Pinching is a possibility, but I am leanig towards not. This is a large canopy and the damage is well away from the center cell If you want to call the end cell #9, and then go sequentially, the damage is right on the seam between cells 7&8. Plus when this canopy is pro packed, it is large enough that only the center cell skin is exposed when it is bagged.
I do not think acid or is a likely cause unless the off chance that there was some layign unnocticed on the packign area carpet. I'm positive that the AAD battery is not leaking because I had the unit out the day previously, showing it to another rigger who'd never seen a Vigil.
Other things. Size of damage mentioned is roughly 1.75 inches. Threre are two more damaged areas that are roughly in line the this area. one is a standard L -shaped tear that's a little smaller than a quarter. Just above that is a slit that's ~ 1 inch long. Canopy is a largish ZP, semi-elliptical.
Kevin, this may be friction damge but it isn't the resutl of color swap as the only colors on the canopy are blue, red and black.
I appreciate all the comments. I've never seen this before, and before I sent it out the door, I want to make sure that it was something besides fabric degradation from deployment speeds that are consistently 30+ mph over the canopy's placarded max.
-Blind
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