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Re: Closed cell foil handling in light wind

Postby nothing2seehere » Fri Apr 29, 2022 12:34 pm

Just to check. Did you find the long mixer was fine but the short mixer was off? I wouldn't have expected the mixer to change when you adjusted the PMAs. Did you find you needed to adjust afterwards?

I checked my own mixer and found that C was maybe 1cm long on one side. Nothing drastic but corrected it. I'm doing the mixer with a trim tool now (home made version of what is sold in the bag) as I can more easily find a single anchor point (towing eye on a car for example).

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Re: Closed cell foil handling in light wind

Postby Nelis » Mon May 02, 2022 10:29 am

No, the PMAs and mixer are independent methods of tuning as far as I know.

When the long mixer test was spot-on (5kgs tension all marks within 1mm) the short mixer was still off a bit.
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