Well you have it away with your picture name. It's a prusik tender
Booooo. Cheater. No fair. OK, I was sloppy. I already admited to making messes..... Sure. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.
Climbing hitch tender to replace the micro pulley in my SRT setup. Weighs only 21grams where my pulley is 126g. I could buy a pulley as light as 65g, but what fun would that be?
Here are the rest of the build pics...
I hope this post inspires guys to DIY. Simple hand tools, a drill press, a disc sander, and a bandsaw is all I needed. I could have done this without the bandsaw or disc sander too but they are very efficient. Oh, but I did cheat a little - I turned the inside radius on my lathe. That would have taken a long time to file....
After filing and sanding I spent less than 10 minutes at my buffing wheel. Not necessary, but makes it pretty.
Cross pinned with a brass dowel.
Smaller and lighter than a true pulley....
It works, but not as well as the pulley. It sits lower then the pulley and so I have to pull more to get it to tend the hitch. If I had to do it over, I would make the carabiner hole sit lower than the ring so it would contact sooner.
Next time I will name my photos "DONT LOOK AT THIS TITLE 1.jpg".
Sandor27
