| Tramp replacment tricks #6644 04/29/02 01:04 PM 04/29/02 01:04 PM | Anonymous OP
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Wondering if anyone has any tricks or advise on how to lace a 3 peace tramp, and get it tight?
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Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 397 Burlington, Vermont USA Kevin Rose
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Posts: 397 Burlington, Vermont USA | I'd be interested in hearing about this, too. Getting mine tight has been a painful process. After the lacing is loosely in place, I go back to the beginning to begin the tensioning. I use a line with a loop in the end. I slip the end through the grommet, run it around the rear beam, through the loop, double back, and then pull tight to tension. (Using the loop gives me 2:1 pull.) I then pull the tramp lacing tight and have someone hold it while I pull the next grommet tight. I work my way down the lacing in this way until I get to the end, then go back and repeat a couple times to get it really tight.
I don't do it often enough to spend time coming up with an easier way, but I sure would be interested in hearing what others do.
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Posts: 1,459 Annapolis,MD | **** plug gotten from Boat U.S. I just whittled the end down a bit. Then, I made a tensioner tool that consisted of a piece of shovel handle with two long bolts through the end, spaced about 1.5 inches apart.
Using these goes like this - I lace the tramp, as tight as easliy possible by hand. Then I go back over it, starting at the lacing two past the beginning, inserting the bolts of the tension tool around a piece of the lacing then rotating the handle - the bolts twist the line, tightening it. Jam the tapered dowel into the grommet hole closer to the starting point to keep the line tight, then move on to the next lacing. Tighten, jam, tighten, jam, etc. This turns it into a one-person job.
Care needs to be used with the tensioner tool, because you can generate enough pull to pull the grommets out of the material.
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#6647 04/29/02 01:59 PM 04/29/02 01:59 PM |
Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 397 Burlington, Vermont USA Kevin Rose
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Posts: 397 Burlington, Vermont USA | Keith,
Is this the same as what the "Uptight Tramp Tool" I see in the Murray's catalog does?
Kevin Rose
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#6651 04/30/02 12:38 PM 04/30/02 12:38 PM | Anonymous OP
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Unregistered | Won't the easy- out tear up the line?
And what did you use a old wooden handle? Just cut a slot in it o grab the line? | | |
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