10-19-2010, 10:05 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by tfischer
Cool. I could see it going both ways - a smaller cord might not catch at all, whereas a longer one might loop over a high branch and hang down from both sides. I guess if you can somehow pull it down though, that's when it pays off  |
Unfortunately, even shorter shock cords can wrap themselves around branches or overhead wires. My nephew's streamer-equipped Estes Athena (the older E2X kit with the Generic E2X white plastic fin unit and the aluminized nose cone) wrapped itself around a telephone wire several times... :-( |