SEREJumper 1 #1 January 7, 2011 Anyone have any info on this? What it was used for?We're not fucking flying airplanes are we, no we're flying a glorified kite with no power and it should be flown like one! - Stratostar Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiveJack 0 #2 January 7, 2011 Putting ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
captain1976 0 #3 January 8, 2011 Probably some kind of jig made by a manufacturer for a specif job. Al lot of home-made contraptions were made by companies making war materials during the big one.You live more in the few minutes of skydiving than many people live in their lifetime Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybill 18 #4 January 8, 2011 Hi S-J, Doesn't look like anything I used to play with back in the day. At Scurvy-Irvin and at Old Man Sheehan's place (Paranetics, So. El Monte CA) we had a couple of hydraulic rams that could put out some lbs!! 'Ol "Big Bertha" at Scurvy could top out at 75,000 lbs at the foot!! Where, who made-used the one you got the photo of??SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lekstrom10k 0 #5 January 8, 2011 It appears to hold some kind if round cyndrical tank like a scuba one. Just a hint put something like a dollar bill in the picture, its six inches long for a comparison. there is no way to tell from picture itself. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
topdocker 0 #6 January 8, 2011 The original hook up system for tandems. You just smashed the instructor and student together to fit in one harness! topJump more, post less! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jackwallace 3 #7 January 9, 2011 I've not seen that exact one, but have seen something close in the Navy. It held the can upright to compression pack it.U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jonstark 8 #8 January 10, 2011 Could it be for holding a BRS cylinder? (Ballistic Recovery System) Assuming it is used in the parachute rigging arena. jon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SCR216 2 #9 January 10, 2011 I think you may be right. We had something like it at Irvin Air Chute back in the 60s. It was used to hold a round canister stable while using a ram press during compression packing. I didn't have anything to do with that end of the business, but I found the process very interesting. I mean, if it takes so much force to pack that puppy, it must take a hell of a lot of force to extract it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MakeItHappen 15 #10 January 10, 2011 QuoteAnyone have any info on this? What it was used for? Does the yoke thing side up & down and then you turn the cross-bar thingy to tighten in the radial direction? If so, it could be something to compress pack jobs in a banana-peel type bag. A banana-peel bag looks like a peeled banana when open. Then the sides (each peel) are laced together like shoe laces. You have to compress along the longitudinal axis and in the radial direction while packing. These types are bags are used in military or high speed applications and the bags are usually made of kevlar. .. Make It Happen Parachute History DiveMaker Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerrob 558 #11 January 10, 2011 Not to answer your specific question, but hydraulic rams are often used to compress parachutes for ejection seats, especially for teen-series fighters, like compressing the parachute canopy to fit into the head-rest box on an F-18 fighter. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve1 5 #12 January 14, 2011 I could have used a contraption like that when I was trying to pack my Mark 1 into my Super Pro container. It sure was purty when it was all packed up though. My stylemaster reserve was tight bugger too. My 24 ft. reserve didn't want to go in there. Packing was what kept me in shape back in the day. That and hoisting beer cans.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerryBaumchen 1,041 #13 January 15, 2011 Hi steve, Quote My stylemaster reserve was tight bugger too. My 24 ft. reserve didn't want to go in there. Shout out to Steve: It wasn't supposed to go in there! Those containers were tighter than H#%@ with just a 26 ft canopy in there. JerryBaumchen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites