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jsprag44

Sew as if your life depends on it

People who maintain and repair military ejection seat harnesses, parachute canopies, parachute containers, etc... know a few things about sewing gear.

One introductory resource for training U.S. Navy riggers is Naval Education and Training (NAVEDTRA) publication 14218B. Chapter 9 goes into some detail on industrial sewing machines found in a paraloft, and Chapter 10 discusses materials, tools, and techniques used in their trade.

Shared here if you'd like to have a look.

Edited to add a new link to Google Drive and avoid sketchy looking hosting.

Posted May 22, 2020, 1:20 PM UTC · edited

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simonalle•

Link to document without the Filedropper account... http://www.navybmr.com/study%20material/NAVEDTRA%2014218.pdf

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jsprag44OP•

Not quite the same - yours is an earlier version (1990 vs. 2017). Might contain some valuable information that wasn't retained in subsequent revisions, so certainly worth looking at. Images are much better in the new version though.

Some history...

Long ago the Navy had two publications to train E4 and E5 riggers:

  • Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 3 & 2, Vol 1 (NAVEDTRA 10328-1)
    • I can't find a link
  • Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 3 & 2, Vol 2 (NAVEDTRA 10329)
    • nothing on sewing

And another for E6 and E7 riggers:

  • Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 1 & C (NAVEDTRA 14217)
    • Chapter 4 is sewing machine repair

In 1990, they merged much of that into the document you linked (NAVEDTRA 14218)

Then in 2012 they revised it to NAVEDTRA 14218A

Finally, in 2017 they revised again to the current NAVEDTRA 14218B (my original link)

Somebody savvy on how the Army and Air Force organizes their training manuals might be able to find similar products for those services.

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LeonFish•

Hey, thanks for sharing that. That would have been a great primer for me a few months ago, lots of good consolidated info.

If you've got one of the singer or consew models they cover, it would probably be a good resource.

I may have to give it another look, just so happens Im having trouble with the pressure regulator on my rssk-8.

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SharkCrashAquarium•

Really great resource, this should probably be added to the wiki as it has really good explanations of stitch types, machine features, fabric features and handling, knots, and sewing equipment. u/mchalfy, or u/noemazor, could one of you do this?

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noemazorSeattle•

Pls post the idea in the monthly thread and if it gets some traction we'll consider it. My concern is how sprawling the content is. It's literally 404 pages (I did not download the link in the main thread for security reasons so referring to the 1990 version). More pointed content that is parsed out and specific would be preferable.

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SharkCrashAquarium•

Totally understand, the version that link holds is just chapters 9 and 10, which deal with the sewing related aspects, it's 111 pages, so still long, but you can search within it, maybe excerpts could be taken out of there, but I'll put it in the discussion thread

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jsprag44OP•

Clown here. What's your preferred alternative? I'm willing to make reasonable efforts to help you feel safe on the internet.

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noemazorSeattle•

Hey, thanks for taking this in stride and being cool about it! I laughed at your response; was a perfect way to handle immature behavior. Appreciate it!

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noemazorMODSeattle•

Removed that comment b/c it was rude and unnecessary.

The link does come off as sketchy. Use google drive to share PDF documents without ads if you'd like.

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jsprag44OP•

Thanks. Updated link to share via Google drive.

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noemazorSeattle•

Appreciate that!

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WeAreAllFormless•

rude and unnecessary.

You really truly think that me pointing out the potential hazard that OP's post poses to the fucking safety of your users is "rude and unnecessary"? You're really ok with scammers trying to bait users on this subreddit into downloading malware-infected files onto their computer?

You have two choices now. Uphold my clearly legitimate concerns and show that you care about your user base and be willing to admit you're wrong. Or prove yourself to be just another ego-driven power-hungry, king-of-an-island-nation tiny subreddit asshole and ban me or whatever. I guess there's a third option: choose the coward's route and shadow hide me and pretend this didn't happen.

Your move.

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noemazorMODSeattle•

Hey there! Calling someone a clown is rude and unnecessary. Your point (a valid point) didn't need to involve name calling.

Here was your comment for others to read:

lol how the fuck do I know this is safe to download? Click bait title and instead of giving us a pdf link you use this crazy file dropper bullshit? What a clown . . .

I think you might have jumped the gun as to why I removed your post -- I was pretty clear the link should be shared in a different format. IDK if you read the second and third sentences of my comment:

The link does come off as sketchy. Use google drive to share PDF documents without ads if you'd like.

Your follow up comment: rude and unnecessary.

Ego-driven power hungry king of an island nation etc, rude and unnecessary.

You can communicate in a respectful way. Your choice was quite the opposite.

Feel free to respond to me with a direct message if you want, but I've gone ahead and banned you for 30 days.

We're open to differing opinions and strong opinions. We care about security here too (again, see my first comment). OP did a great job changing the link to a more secure link. But we don't have space for toxic behavior in our community.

Hopefully this exchange was instructive for the rest of our community.

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