Yes, the whole shebang is my design, though i doubt that i'm the first person to try something like this.
As for the built-in swivel, reasons are two-fold; yes, you get an extra half a foot of height by removing the swivel and extra biner from your rigging. Its not huge, but every little bit adds up. Second, there is a recurring thread on all of the rigging lists in which folk grumble about how there is no way to back up the Petzl swivels that everyone uses, and that nobody makes an equivalent unit out of steel, and that they'd love to get that last bit of aluminum rigging hardware out of the loop if they could. Well, it occured to me that since i'd be using the rig mostly for silk, i should just build the swivel bearing into the design, solving that problem once and for all. Heck, thrust bearings are even cheap, to boot.
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Date: 2006-07-31 03:55 pm (UTC)As for the built-in swivel, reasons are two-fold; yes, you get an extra half a foot of height by removing the swivel and extra biner from your rigging. Its not huge, but every little bit adds up. Second, there is a recurring thread on all of the rigging lists in which folk grumble about how there is no way to back up the Petzl swivels that everyone uses, and that nobody makes an equivalent unit out of steel, and that they'd love to get that last bit of aluminum rigging hardware out of the loop if they could. Well, it occured to me that since i'd be using the rig mostly for silk, i should just build the swivel bearing into the design, solving that problem once and for all. Heck, thrust bearings are even cheap, to boot.