Having had considerable success re-stringing the seat on Mary’s Tour Easy with Kevlar line, this seemed like a good idea:
They’re a pair of plumb bobs I’ve had forever, with ten feet of 100 pound Kevlar line in place of their original (and well-worn) string. The key parameter is the 1 mm diameter to fit the holes in the bobs, with the 20 pound working strength being grossly overqualified.
Because it’s braided line, the bobs no longer spin merrily when deployed, which is a major win.
They hibernate in pill bottles during their downtime, where the line doesn’t get nearly as tangled as you might imagine.
Admittedly, I don’t deploy plumb bobs all that often, but in recent months I have needed to know what was directly below something else often enough to remind me to get this done.
The WordPress AI image for this post is, as usual, disturbing:
I like the perfectly rendered gibberish text. Is that a bizarre spade drill in the lower left? So many pills!
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One response to “Plumb Bobs: Kevlar Lines”
That braided line looks like a good replacement for the redo of a long-ignored broken wind chime. UV is always an issue, so the Mark 2 edition will feature individual strings, instead of the convoluted single-string, staked at the holes. (Whatever material it was, it did not play well in local conditions.)
I have to redo the top support disk, and what’s on hand (and a nod to redneck engineering) indicates that aluminum safety plate will get the honors.