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Hello all,

 

I was just surfing around and found this site. I am one of the co-designers of the fos-8. ISC was licensing the design from us.

 

Unfortunately dealing with them has been frustrating at best. Part of the original licensing deal was that they used our instruction sheet. Which was laminated and folded up to be stored inside the tube on the device itself. We have been very disappointed to learn that they never printed them. We felt that they were very important to include.

 

I will attach one of our instruction sheets to this post. Feel free to pass them around to anyone else you know who has one of these devices. Unfortunately I had to shrink the files slightly to upload them on this site. If you want a higher res version, just email me and I will send it too you.

 

It is also important to know that the design does not require you to use a carabiner to capture the rope. We just added the option for extra security.

 

If there are any other questions about the design, I'll check back here and am only too happy to answer.

 

Dave Spencer

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Fantastic!!!

 

This is just the sort of thing that makes this site sooooooooo Great!!!!!!!!!

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Thats different from the instructions I have for mine, Tock. Mine shows putting a bight of rope thru the top loop, and over the front of the bollard. The tail then wraps as normal to the back. Will try out your system too tho :icon14:. PS isnt it a pita having the crab at the front in the way?

 

Any chance you could scan or even take a picture of the instructions for me. I am very curious to see them.

 

Again, the carabiner is not required, it is just there as an option. Say you were dropping a piece a fair bit and while it fell, the line goes slack for a second and the portawrap drops down. There is the potential there to lose a wrap, this is when you could make things safer by capturing the rope with a biner or two. For 90% of use, you should not need to use one. unless you like to be extra-extra safe :) The "horns" are bent over to make it much less likely than other similar devices to lose a wrap, even without the biners.

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I seen this one on Google images,its called a Kramer.

 

Without seeing what size it is...its almost an exact copy of the original Buckingham 'Port A Wrap' which was excellent for rigging and is about twice the size of the small ISC copy -

 

SmPortawrap.jpg

 

Double Roping?

 

No, you just start with one half wrap on the short side and continue the wraps on the longer barrel....same as the small ISC lowering device.

 

 

 

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