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Whats everyone using on aider steps

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Ehlusive

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How you guys keeping your tubular webbing aiders open on the feet part. I figure pvc would break, rebar to heavy.. any ideas
 
I made a two step aider out of mule tape and slipped 3/8" clear tubing over the step part to keep it open. Works great.
 
Ehlusive said:
How you guys keeping your tubular webbing aiders open on the feet part. I figure pvc would break, rebar to heavy.. any ideas
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This is what several aider makers use from what I've read.

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It is webbing with a semi-rigid lamination on all sides. The gold series is shinier but more rigid.

I bought some for future use (either slid into the webbing or sewn to the top), but currently I have a piece of climbing rope wrapped in several wraps of gorilla duct tape, then slid into my webbing, and then tacked on each side with a few stitches to keep it in place. Works great (is relatively soft but has kept an open shape for 2 years), but the biothane would be more clean and professional.
 
Cobra braid with paracord. I also put a piece of 7mm accessory cord inside the tubular webbing first. Works great.
 
I had an old broken garden hose laying around and cut it into 9" long pieces. It wouldn't fit inside the webbing, so I cut it long ways in half and used the 2 halves, one for each step, in my double aider.

I used to have just paracord cobra weaved over top of the webbing that was folded in half, but it was not rigid enough and would not hold open.
 
Just shove a piece of climbing rope in there before sewing or tying knots
 
My aider made of 2" webbing and I stacked it 3 layers thick on the step portion and sewed them together making webbing sandwich that it substantially more ridged and stays open real good
 
I tried all kinds of hose, tubing, rope before I finally settled on 1/4inch Aluminum plate. I cut the plate so it would slide inside the tubular webbing, rounded all the corners and wrapped in electrical tape before sliding inside. It works great and have held up for the past few years of me using them.
 
Flexible tubing like mentioned above if I really need it solid and open. If it’s not as important to be solid and I want it to be more packable, I slide a piece of zip tie in the Amsteel.
 
I used archery serving cord to stitch thick zipties with little holes drilled in em onto my amsteel aiders, works good weighs nothing.
 
I actually use cut pieces of large zip ties (think flex cuffs) and feed them into the webbing. I find that they keep the webbing open, they are lightweight, and don't lose that feel of the webbing in the arch of my boot. They have kept their shape and I know what feeling to expect while climbing down in the dark.
 
drew13 said:
1/2” white pex has worked great for me for years. Cheap, a little bendable so it doesn’t snap but rigid enough to keep its shape.
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I use the same and I am about 250 lbs with all my gear. Never had an issue with it breaking or creasing.
 
I use a piece of 3/8 (?) clear pvc tubing that had in the scrap plastic box of my shop.
 
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