Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 16:54:53 -1000 From: cad_lane@pisces.colorado.edu (Jim Yekel cad_lane@pisces.colorado.edu) Message-Id: Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University Subject: washing kites/lines (was Sand in my Flexi...) jmac@world.std.com (Jack S Cunniff) writes: >paul@hursley.ibm.com (Paul 'Raggs' Reed) writes: >>In article , wrote: >>>out. I've never tried rinsing the lines but it's probably not a bad >>>idea. >>Try putting the lines in your washing machine on a rinse cycle. We do it >>with the sheets off the boat I race and they come out okay (I guess you will >>want to hank the line carefully before doing this so as to avoid tangles!). >>-- >Eek! I don't think SO. I take care to take twists out of my lines regularly, >but they still will occasionally knot together if I walk to the kite while >still holding the straps. Putting lines in a washing machine even if >they're tight on a winder makes me squeamish, so putting a hank in is even >less likely. >Thanks, but not this time, >Jack Jack, You missed the part about carefully hanking the line prior to washing. I've done some dyeing and weaving where _large_ amounts of thread/yarn is handled and believe me you do not want major tangling. If the cordage is hanked (wound figure 8 style around two pegs) and _securely_ tied thru both eyes and around the cross the hank can be washed or whatever and easily undone with no tangles. Wishing eveyone Perfect Wind always Jim Yekel cad_lane@pisces.colorado.edu Designer Draftsman University of Colorado LASP = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =