02-23-2009, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark II
......Also, a friend of mine once warned me that the two tabs projecting out the side of the duolock-style snap could catch and snag on parts of the recovery system. It sounds plausible, but I have never seen that actually happen.
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I've had a shroud line hang but it really didn't affect the recovery any....just wasn't as pretty as it could have been......lol
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Originally Posted by MarkII
I have to confess here that most of my snap swivels are of the common brass "safety pin" style. I really should replace them all with well-made swivels that have coastlock snaps.
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Actually, I've never had any problem with the "safety pin" style.....but I usually use them on my smaller rockets that really don't experience much of a deployment velocity.......or they use streamers......
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