AlexR
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More walking stuff than caving, a SilNylon tarp (slippery stuff in a sewing machine), various drybags, modified bits of my tent and backpacks, camera pouches, etc.
Mainly repairs and modifications in caving I think. Feels like my "digging suit" sports more of my stitching than original one, a cordura protector tube around my pantin footstrap, sewn on neoprene as knee protectors on my undersuit, modified an AV tackle sack with another attachment loop that keeps it closed... stuff like that.
Not exactly rocket science, but I made a small steel bar (~1") that I keep on the same carabiner as my Stop with tat, useful for disabling the "stop" function on longer descents. An alloy carabiner wears through very quickly as I found out, ruined a perfectly good crab in a single descent of Titan. And there's no way I'm lugging around a hefty steel one all the time.
Everything seems to hold up pretty well, although I definitely wouldn't say it's particularly time or cost effective. There is no way my sewing machine could handle e.g. tackle sacks, so it's all stitched by hand. I would say the Warmbac tackle sacks are much, much easier to repair than the AV ones: When the webbing at the bottom fails, just sew a new one on and you're good to go. The thread I use is .5mm woven dyneema with a breaking strength of 40kg (single strand), holds up pretty well.
Mainly repairs and modifications in caving I think. Feels like my "digging suit" sports more of my stitching than original one, a cordura protector tube around my pantin footstrap, sewn on neoprene as knee protectors on my undersuit, modified an AV tackle sack with another attachment loop that keeps it closed... stuff like that.
Not exactly rocket science, but I made a small steel bar (~1") that I keep on the same carabiner as my Stop with tat, useful for disabling the "stop" function on longer descents. An alloy carabiner wears through very quickly as I found out, ruined a perfectly good crab in a single descent of Titan. And there's no way I'm lugging around a hefty steel one all the time.
Everything seems to hold up pretty well, although I definitely wouldn't say it's particularly time or cost effective. There is no way my sewing machine could handle e.g. tackle sacks, so it's all stitched by hand. I would say the Warmbac tackle sacks are much, much easier to repair than the AV ones: When the webbing at the bottom fails, just sew a new one on and you're good to go. The thread I use is .5mm woven dyneema with a breaking strength of 40kg (single strand), holds up pretty well.
