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Posted on behalf of close friends, who hope this technical info may be useful.

Following a freefall cliff strike, a canopy (new Troll 265 DW) was used to wrap the corpse during a recovery, soaking in the entire body blood volume. Subsequently the rig was put into a waterproof stashbag, thoroughly and completely soaking every bit of nylon.

Upon return of the gear from authorities, it was decided to clean the rig up. Both canopy and conteiner were washed separately in a standard home washing machine, gentle cycle, no spin, cold (30C) water, using mild detergent and oxy bleach. The cycle was repeated 3 times due to low water volume (1 cycle might be enough if using industrial-size machine). The rig came out cristal-clear, and its porosity did not noticeably increase (still better than an average 100 jump canopy). Upon inspection the rig was deemed completely airworthy and a new line set installed to replace the lines cut by rescue workers. It has been subsequently jumped (slider-down by 230lb jumper) and sold to a friend of the deceased.

bsbd!

Yuri.

Geez Yuri...I hate that word corpse....Excuse me while I got pray or something....

that's speaks great things in the durability of the troll dw. what happened to this lost soul Yuri?

Actually that would say something about the quality of the fabric that the troll is made from, which I believe is French Porcher Sport PN1, maybe someone else knows exactly?

 
Bleach? I don't know about bleach. Historicaly this was looked into and deemed not a good idea.

Lee

When I first went to work for Square One at Perris, and was the low man on the totem pole, I washed a number of bounce rigs.

Sometimes it was for re-sale, but mostly it was families wanting the gear after the Coroner released it . . .

I just sat out back of the loft with rubber gloves, a metal wash basin, warm water, a box of Cheer, and a scrub brush. And it was always a nasty task.

You may think it odd anyone would purchase and jump a bounce rig. But even I bought one of them. My thinking was what's the chances of the same rig going in twice . . .

NickD

Oxy Bleach and Chlorine Bleach are two different critters.

Oxy Bleach is generally non-injurous to items that Chlorine Bleach will easily destroy.

BASE359

Nick I bought then resold a reserve like that. I just couldn't use it. John Mitchel had got it out of a bounce rig, and was wearing it on the otter when it went in. I just couldn't use the "what are the odds" justification since it hadn't worked for John.

Yeah, well there's always that . . .

John was a good guy.

NickD

YA, you got to take a grasp on your gut instincts with shit like that. I got a gear bag that 2 different people took there gear out of town with and never came back. It's still a nice gear bag. but I WON'T be taking my gear on ANY road trips with the bag. Technically It's silly superstition and I really don't consider myself a practitioner of. Still my mind say's, No no no.
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I too do not consider myself superstious
BUT instinct and intuition have saved me
a couple times so when that inner voice
speaks up I try to listen.