Description: Basejumping stuff
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There’s a lot of information and discussions out there on how to locate your custom deep brake setting (see Asylum / CR article , or search on basejumper.com), and why that is a good idea if you jump solid slider down objects. So this is mainly about a little hack of mine that makes the job of changing the brake setting in between test jumps way easier. However, I write a bit on my approach at the bottom.
When setting up your custom DBS, you will have to do a number of test jumps off some safeish span to locate and verify it. For those jumps you’ll have to try out different brake settings, and there’s a number of ways to achieve this, but all I’ve seen up to this point involve some stitching to modify it in between jumps. (Most popular, moving the spliced loop of the lower steering line at the cascade end)
So to save myself from bringing a sewing machine, do any hand tacking or seam picking in between test jumps I came up with this idea to change the brake line length with a long splice instead. Lines shrink when spliced, for 900lbs Dacron that’s approximately 1.25cm (~1/2″) for a 10cm (~4″) splice. (or vice versa 1cm shrinkage for 8cm splice) The mandatory liability bit on posts like this: THIS IS NOT APPROVED OR ENDORSED BY ANY MANUFACTURER, DO AT YOUR OWN RISK.