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Does anyone know where to buy the neon orange e-thread or #69 thread that's commonly used in big-grab toggles?

And how about the neon orange fabric they're made of?

http://djassociates.thomasnet.com/item/thread-nylon-thread/thread/item-2327?

http://www.paragear.com/templates/parachutes.asp?group=170&level=2&parent=193

(Item W9870)

But I believe both places require a $25 minimum order. DJ has the 1" square weave but you'll need to order a whole spool of it for like $75. And paragear doesn't have neon orange thread, but DJ does. If you're looking to build a set of big grabs, any rigger will have some square weave and E thread in some color, black most commonly, but maybe red, yellow, orange etc. You'll also need give or take a foot of cable to stiffen the toggle, I think manufacturers use the cutaway cable since they have tons of it, but plastic coated cable from home depot will work just fine for this application. And if you don't have any rigging experience, toggles are a BITCH. I designed and built and entire base container from scratch and after like 5 attempts at the toggles said fuck it and pulled the ones off my old velcro container, couldn't get the stiffened cloth section right. Probably not worth the effort over buying some professionally made big grabs for like $50. And i'm one for building all your own gear, I don't own/use shit I haven't built. I build my own tracking gear, wingsuits, base gear, etc, but toggles aren't really worth it IMO

Unless you wanted to know for a different project, or have rigging experience, then game on!

Next you should knit yourself a canopy so that ALL your gear is homemade

Hahaha. Canopy is on the list of things in the future, just for novelty to do once. It'd be really cool to have an entire rig that I built from scratch. The only reason I have speed wings right now is people have given me wings they crashed and were so destroyed they were gonna throw em away, so I revived them with 50-75 hours in front of a machine

based on the frank-en-bullet, i guess you could just take apart your canopy and knit it back together then you can have all home built gear.

I wonder if you can order a do-it-yourself kit from one of the manufactures where they cut out all the pieces and ship them to you...

I've wondered that before. But I doubt it, because then they'd essentially be sending you a pattern. Not that you couldn't order a wing and take it apart. If you had in in with a gear manufacturer you might be able to make it happen.

Sorry for the hijack....

Thats awesome man. Good for you.

Toggles are not that hard . There is just a couple little tricks to the basic Pattern & folds .
Leaning them, & that will apply to you building all the other variants made like big-grab etc .
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Sorry about the thread drift but there used to be a skydiving parachute company that sold kits back in the 80s. It did not catch on but I did run across a few people that built their own canopies from kits.

Walt

They sell small 1-2 place
balloon kits that you sew.

What size PC would you need to drag one of those of your back