Making Lines

Just now getting around to this. The hardest part is finding line in bulk quantity at a fair price. Then I was hung up for a long time on the issue of sleeving them and stitching them. Never could find the correct sleeving material in bulk. I occasionally see some in small quantities. I also never quite got my cardboard line gig dialed in.

So the other day I was in a pecurilous situation and from experience I let the kite go. Long ago I would have held on and got pulled out of the buggy.

So now I have a tremendous ball of lines that I don't feel like untangling right now. So I will just make more lines. Using Popeyes video which is how I should have made them all along.

4" of line that is inside of itself. I will test these out tomorrow. Easy to make.

more throw line

Quote: Originally posted by tomdiving

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=dyneema+throwline&ref=nb_sb_n... https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l... https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_... the treestuff reviews weren't very kind to the stein line. i'd check other reviews closely before putting your body or bridle tabs in jeopardy with any of these lines. that being said, i'll probably buy some for myself and put it on an older kite that i don't really care about as a test. tom

So it would seem that I started this hot mess by dragging my friend John (Cerebite) to this dance with his throw line (man ties a mean hot pink line and wears a kilt so I figured he could take it) so now I feel like I need to defend him.

I'm wondering if the negative comments in the reviews have more to do with the use of dyneema line in the specific tree throw application and less to do with the stein line itself. About five years ago I pulled a dyneema lineset over a soccer goalpost with my kite loaded up and the line got cut like a hot knife through butter. I've heard cheapo single line kite strings can cut right through dyneema too though I haven't directly witnessed that. I flew a hot pink lineset a fair amount at IBX last year and a ton of static flying with lots of powered repeated loops that had the lines rubbing on each other under high tension and the lines still seem the same as the day I got them.

I'm sure there are lots of good lines out there, but I'd keep this hot pink lady on the list.

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Once larks headed on; the connection is solid. Though in handling; it is possible to intentionally slide the buried tail back out as the "finger trap" type holding method doesn't get a solid grip on the tail. Decided to sew some up. I have to pull the line through both to make it feed and hold it in place. Looking for a foot that would work. Some sort of piping, cording, or welting foot. Has anyone seen a certain foot that would hold the line centered?

I modified my presser feet to hold the line centered. The photo included here shows what I did to an ordinary presser foot with a triangular file. This foot has two grooves to bind a folder line. I have another foot with a single groove.