MK IV yaw string installation ....

I just received my Mark IV for Christmas. I appreciate the detailed instructions. Should I use any type of specialized instrument to trim the length of the yaw indicating natural fiber unit?

XF

On Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:08:12 AM UTC-8, wrote:
I just received my Mark IV for Christmas. I appreciate the detailed instructions. Should I use any type of specialized instrument to trim the length of the yaw indicating natural fiber unit?



XF

MKIV's are made with a long yarn so the owner can trim it to the preferred length. No specialized instrument is required, though chewing through the yarn makes for a ragged end.

Early MKI's were mostly trimmed using a sharp flake chipped of a handy flint rock. We've come a ways and now a pair of scissors is the suggested device. However, lasers, meat cleavors, shaped charges, or any of a number of other devices might be pressed into service. Use your imagination.

Don't forget to re-knot the end.

bumper

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OPFPaDPNx5w

Bumper,

My Mark IV worked incredibly well all last season, as you can tell in the above shamelessly plugged video. I'm sure you'll be wanting to use some of the footage for your pending NCAA College Football Nat'l Championship, Super Bowl, or Soccer World Cup ad campaigns.

On another note, at some point you will need a corporate pilot to fly your yaw string company's King Air around, please advise when the application window is open! OR,...if there is flight testing needed on the proposed Mark V's and VI's...I'm your guy! The current gig/cubicle I'm flying...is getting stale, and the flight test excuse may be the "raison d' etre" that surmounts the signifcant other's resistance towards getting a self-launcher that anyone else can plainly see is urgently needed.

ZAP

On Friday, December 28, 2012 8:09:40 PM UTC-8, bumper wrote:
On Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:08:12 AM UTC-8, wrote:

I just received my Mark IV for Christmas. I appreciate the detailed instructions. Should I use any type of specialized instrument to trim the length of the yaw indicating natural fiber unit?


XF

MKIV's are made with a long yarn so the owner can trim it to the preferred length. No specialized instrument is required, though chewing through the yarn makes for a ragged end.

Early MKI's were mostly trimmed using a sharp flake chipped of a handy flint rock. We've come a ways and now a pair of scissors is the suggested device. However, lasers, meat cleavors, shaped charges, or any of a number of other devices might be pressed into service. Use your imagination.

Don't forget to re-knot the end.

bumper
Bumper, can you confirm your PM again please. I tried the ones earlier in this thread but they were bounced by verizon. It looks like it's been a couple of years since you added your contact details in.

Kelvyn

On Friday, December 28, 2012 11:04:38 PM UTC-8, Kelvyn Flavall wrote:


Bumper, can you confirm your PM again please. I tried the ones earlier in this thread but they were bounced by verizon. It looks like it's been a couple of years since you added your contact details in.



Kelvyn

Certainly, it's bumperm "at symbol" frontier "period" com

MKIV's and Quiet Vent kits are also carried by Cumulus Soaring, Williams Soaring, and SoaringNV. First two sell on-line.

happy soaring!

bumper

On Saturday, December 29, 2012 10:23:43 PM UTC-6, bumper wrote:
On Friday, December 28, 2012 11:04:38 PM UTC-8, Kelvyn Flavall wrote:





Bumper, can you confirm your PM again please. I tried the ones earlier in this thread but they were bounced by verizon. It looks like it's been a couple of years since you added your contact details in.







Kelvyn



Certainly, it's bumperm "at symbol" frontier "period" com



MKIV's and Quiet Vent kits are also carried by Cumulus Soaring, Williams Soaring, and SoaringNV. First two sell on-line.



happy soaring!



bumper

Not sure how Bumper maintains his high-roller lifestyle on the sale of his excellent products - they just last too long! I still have a reserve string in my flight bag with the original on the canopy now for about 3 years! To celebrate the beginning of another exiting year of soaring I yesterday 're-painted' my old original-yellow string with a yellow highlighter, it came out beautifully. All other components are still in great shape. Hoping this great American product never gets outsourced!
Happy New Year!

Herb

MKIV's and Quiet Vent kits are also carried by Cumulus Soaring, Williams Soaring, and SoaringNV. First two sell on-line.







happy soaring!







bumper



Not sure how Bumper maintains his high-roller lifestyle on the sale of his excellent products - they just last too long! I still have a reserve string in my flight bag with the original on the canopy now for about 3 years! To celebrate the beginning of another exiting year of soaring I yesterday 're-painted' my old original-yellow string with a yellow highlighter, it came out beautifully. All other components are still in great shape. Hoping this great American product never gets outsourced!

Happy New Year!



Herb

I just sent Bumper a stash of Green yarn to fight the out sourcing issue.

ZEN

On Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:15:47 AM UTC-8, wrote:

. . . yesterday 're-painted' my old original-yellow string with a yellow highlighter, it came out beautifully. All other components are still in great shape. Hoping this great American product never gets outsourced!

Happy New Year!



Herb

Herb,

It's inventive customers like you that'll keep me broke. You are NOT supposed to use a felt tip to dye your old MK(whatever #) yaw string to make it look pretty again. The yarn I use is carefully selected to fade after a few years so you will hopefully order a new one . . . sheesh!

bumper