possible way to make huge, light platform with latitude x wing, would this work?

[raisins]

Just spit balling without ever seeing one in person, maybe someone with one can try this or give some feedback on feasibility. This will take away the scallops in the platform that people like.

Idea is simple: join the wings to middle platform piece using 7/64" amsteel pulled as tight as possble, basically make a sort of netting in those 2 open areas to each side and even put some knots in the amsteel to give some side purchase.

This would add almost no weight and make the thing huge and less than 3 lbs. Maybe a company can use an idea like this (build the structural bits out of aluminum etc and the stuff that doesn't see as much force out of something extra light like cord or a polymer/fiberglass reinforced nylon)....we see a lot of platforms that seem to have aluminum where it might not be needed.

Thoughts?

 

[Weldabeast]

I'm batm.....spiderman

 

[slonstdy]

Size doesn't always matter...
Well that's what she told me anyway

 

[enkriss]

The Xwing is 2lbs 9oz

 

[Horn]

You'd need to have a way to get it really really tight. I only have size 10 boots and you can bridge that gap fairly easy. Are you thinking so you could turn around on it?

 

[Zero One Actual]

Amsteel, 550 cord, leather, bobcat pelt. That’s a legit idea. You just need something you can retighten easily every once and awhile.

 

[raisins]

The Xwing is 2lbs 9oz

folks say it weighs a little more than what their website/CAD model says

 

[raisins]

You'd need to have a way to get it really really tight. I only have size 10 boots and you can bridge that gap fairly easy. Are you thinking so you could turn around on it?

yep, just a way to make a light and big platform

 

[raisins]

Amsteel, 550 cord, leather, bobcat pelt. That’s a legit idea. You just need something you can retighten easily every once and awhile.

tourniquet method ala @Samcirrus, one per side with each side wrapped so that you can tighten the whole side at once....probably use a skinny carbon arrow piece epoxied inside a larger carbon arrow

 

[Horn]

tourniquet method ala @Samcirrus, one per side with each side wrapped so that you can tighten the whole side at once....probably use a skinny carbon arrow piece epoxied inside a larger carbon arrow

Could you run just one tourniquet and get both sides? Maybe even in the center? I'm actually thinking weed whacker style, one leg from each side, turned in the center

 

[raisins]

Could you run just one tourniquet and get both sides? Maybe even in the center? I'm actually thinking weed whacker style, one leg from each side, turned in the center

sure...just gotta experiment

 

[Bowtie747]

If this idea worked couldn’t you just use a frame outter edge of a normal platform and fill it in with a stranded rope material?

 

[raisins]

If this idea worked couldn’t you just use a frame outter edge of a normal platform and fill it in with a stranded rope material?

yeah, if it had enough metal to hold itself together

i've looked at various platforms and thought a lot of the cross members could be another material

i hope some platform makers are hiring engineers with CAD programs that can apply various forces to their models and determine what is and isn't needed....might be a neat job for an AI program

 

[enkriss]

folks say it weighs a little more than what their website/CAD model says

sorry 2lbs 9.8oz

 

[Zero One Actual]

tourniquet method ala @Samcirrus, one per side with each side wrapped so that you can tighten the whole side at once....probably use a skinny carbon arrow piece epoxied inside a larger carbon arrow

Do you have a picture of the TQ method. I don’t know it.

 

[Samcirrus]

Do you have a picture of the TQ method. I don’t know it.

Search official tourniquet method....videos and pictures galore!

 

[TK161BOONER]

sorry 2lbs 9.8oz

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Lol yours just weighed more because they added extra material and welded yours a couple extra times just because they knew it was going to you.

 

[enkriss]

Lol yours just weighed more because they added extra material and welded yours a couple extra times just because they knew it was going to you.

I wasn’t complaining about the weight. I was actually surprised it was that light.

 

[TK161BOONER]

I wasn’t complaining about the weight. I was actually surprised it was that light.

I was just jerking your chain lol

 

[thedutchtouch]

I don't see what this would gain, amsteel from the furthest point on the wing to the front edge of the platform wouldn't get you much more real estate- it seems from videos that most people are standing with the heel on the center and toe on the wing, so having amsteel webbing under your foot wouldn't add anything (except negligible weight)and I don't see it being comfortable/useful having say your heel on the amsteel and toe on the platform.

Haven't touched one in person though, just uneducated opinions