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Try just burning several holes in a row in the webbing. Put the approprite
hole over the bolt before you put your backplate on. Super secure, no sewing.

Kent Lind wrote:

> Mine is the same as Art's except I just took my backplate and webbing down
> to a local canvas repair guy who also repairs parachutes and parasails.
> He stitched the little piece of 1" webbing through the backplate and to
> the 2" crotch strap with the same big ziz-zag lock stitch pattern using
> heavy dacron thread that he uses on parachutes.  At the same time I
> brought in a bunch of 10 ft lengths of 1" tubular webbing and had him sew
> big loops in each end to use as 8' jon-lines.  Took about 15 minutes for
> all the sewing and I think I paid him about $15 for everything.
>
> -Kent-
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Art Greenberg [mailto:artg@ec*.ne*]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 10:55 AM
> > To: David Shimell (shimell)
> > Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com
> > Subject: Re: FW: Shimellian Crotch Strap
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, David Shimell (shimell) wrote:
> >
> > > I received an email wanting to know more about the way I set
> > up my crotch
> > > strap on my DIR rig.  This may be of interest to others, so
> > here is how I do
> > > it...
> >
> > David,
> >
> > Thanks for the description. I've not heard of anyone else setting up a
> > 2-inch crotch strap as you have done it.
> >
> > My method uses a short length of 1-inch webbing run through the
> > backplate
> > slot and sewn to the 2-inch webbing. The stitching goes through three
> > layers of webbing, and has proven to be quite durable (but I
> > haven't used
> > a scooter yet). I started out using a metal slide for the front
> > loop, but
> > on the set I made up last month for our Caribbean vacation I
> > used a delrin
> > slide which seem to make for easier adjustment, even with the
> > webbing wet.
> > I use the same stiff 2-inch webbing for the shoulder/waist harness and
> > crotch strap.
> >
> > The sewing is done on my wife's household machine, which isn't really up
> > to going through three layers of heavy webbing, but with a little hand
> > work on the wheel it does the job. Of course I use a heavy duty thread,
> > and the amount I use is surely overkill. But my wife and I each
> > put around
> > 60 dives on these setups last year and they seem to be holding together
> > very well.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Art Greenberg
> > artg@ec*.ne*
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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