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Im fed up with tangled plastic parachutes with broken shroud lines. How can I improve on the standard chutes, or make my own?

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Im fed up with tangled plastic parachutes with broken shroud lines. How can I improve on the standard chutes, or make my own?

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From: soc1070@vx.acs.umn.edu (Tim Harincar) Making your own parachutes is pretty easy. Start with the desired material (usually mylar or a light plastic). Make a cutting pattern out of cardboard by first drawing a circle that will be the maximum size of the chute (i.e. 16″). Take a compass [or] something that will give you an accurate radius of the circle. Pick a point anywhere on the circle and using the radius as a length draw an arc that crosses the circle. At the point where the arc crosses, reposition the compass on that point and draw another arc. Keep doing that all the way around the circle – you will end up with six points including the starting point on the circle. Connect these points with a straight edge and Presto! a hexagon. Cut out the hex from the cardboard (I use artists matboard…) and this is your cutting template. Lay the template on the material and using an EXTREMELY SHARP XACTO KNIFE cut along the outside of the template. Make shrouds from a heavy gauge thread –

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