Sailing hardware IN SPAAAAACE!!!

[pointyend]

Saw this today on the NASA web site. Notice the Wichard shackle on the camera:



Do they use regular jack lines too?

 

[kent_island_sailor]

The North Sails loft on Kent Island makes storage lockers for the Space Station out of sailcloth IIRC.

Back in the day astronauts took a boatpole to Skylab to push a solar array into place.

Saw this today on the NASA web site. Notice the Wichard shackle on the camera:
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Do they use regular jack lines too?

 

[BrianMalone]

Saw this today on the NASA web site. Notice the Wichard shackle on the camera:
View attachment 100471

Do they use regular jack lines too?

Titanium eh?

 

[Trevor B]

On the moonwalk they were using Nicro SS Snapshackles for a bunch of stuff. My Dad, who designed them, was really happy about that.

 

[Dancing Outlaw]

I love seeing boat hardware in odd places. I saw a 12V distribution panel in HALO 3. The circuit labels were readable. Navigation lights. Masthead light. etc.

 

[Ichthyosaur]

The cord you pull to request a stop runs through a Harken cheek block on most SF Muni buses.

 

[waterboy]

About 15 years ago I used a bunch of Harken blocks and shackles to do a ship structural model test for the Navy. Worked great.

 

[C. Spackler]

And NASA probably paid $5,000 for it.

Perhaps they could have used one of those when the $100,000 tool bag drifted away last year with two grease guns and a putty knife in it. Fortunately they didn't lose the duct tape and were able to make it home safely.

 

[OceanBien]

And the old US Navy MK-V swift boats had Harken mid-range pin-stop track & cars on the bottoms of the seating so they could be moved fore & aft depending on the troop & equipment loadout.

 

[OceanBien]

The North Sails loft on Kent Island makes storage lockers for the Space Station out of sailcloth IIRC.Back in the day astronauts took a boatpole to Skylab to push a solar array into place.

Saw this today on the NASA web site. Notice the Wichard shackle on the camera:
View attachment 100471

Do they use regular jack lines too?

I thought Johny Mo(ran) made them in Eastport, for North, with fire-retardant cloth supplied by NASA.

The space bags were cool. Used all over the Shuttle. Sleep in them, stow stuff in them, expandable, contractible: a soft luggage interior.

 

[Not My Real Name]

For some reason all the hospital beds in the new Battlestar Galactica have red Perko battery switches on them.

 

[Mark M]

Wichard makes parachute rigs. I'm not certain but my memory says they did that before branching into marine uses, so aero engineers would probably be familiar with Wichard.

 

[Junkyard Dog]

I seem to recall that back in the 80s, NASA made extensive use of Harken traveller track and cars for positioning and moving items around in the shuttle's cargo bay. I looked, but could not find any pics, so maybe it didn't happen...

 

[pjrs]

So when you re-label the gear as "Space Hardware" does the price re-double?

Nah, actually comes down!

 

[mustang__1]

Supposedly all the wire and turnbuckles for the fences at disney world are supplied by Ronstan.

 

[Tacking]

The cord you pull to request a stop runs through a Harken cheek block on most SF Muni buses.

Only Harken hardware can stop a San Francisco bus! :lol:

It is for sure the best part of the whole public transportation system. Which makes you wonder: which Anarchist works for MUNI?

 

[Tacking]

Supposedly all the wire and turnbuckles for the fences at disney world are supplied by Ronstan.

Just some leftovers from the Morninglight project.

 

[aurichor]

Only Harken hardware can stop a San Francisco bus! :lol:

Golf clap

 

[sailone]

This is actually from the conglomeration of the 1000 Days Space Odyessy....Someone had to say it.