| Here's a trick Bob came up. We had been struggling
matching pairs of rods when we put our large ParaSleds together and at least one set
would not come out as a whole when we pulled the rods back out. Another
struggle. The pictures are pretty self-explanatory. Tubing, kite line and
glue is all you need. One piece of tubing slides, the other is fixed. You
tension the line before putting it into the sleeve; the full length rod
can be pulled back out easily. Loosen the line to separate the rods when
you disassemble the kite. A post script to the rods... one rod (on the
left in the picture below) has an external ferel. The other rod is
scratched and discolored from sliding it in and out of its mate. It does
not have an internal ferel. |
