{"id":3451,"date":"2016-07-04T14:05:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ojovolador.com\/?p=3451&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-07-04T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:05:58","slug":"update-finsterwalder-click-lock-t-lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/update-finsterwalder-click-lock-t-lock\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on CLICK-LOCK and T-LOCK buckles by Finsterwalder"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3452\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/finsterwalder_rework02.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3451]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3452\" src=\"http:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/finsterwalder_rework02-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Reworking affected buckle\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/finsterwalder_rework02-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/finsterwalder_rework02-696x401.jpg 696w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/finsterwalder_rework02.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reworking affected buckle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After having informed 43 paraglider harness manufacturers about how to rework their grounded harnesses following the <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/ojovolador.com\/2016\/06\/07\/dhv-safety-note-finsterwalder-click-lock-t-lock-buckles\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">safety notice about Click-Lock and T-Lock buckles<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Finsterwalder encourages affected pilots to contact their harness manufacturer to ask for instructions on rework of the buckles to continue using them.<\/p>\n<p>Harnesses with expired service lives (4 years) can temporarily continue to be used when a webbing loop is installed as a provisional backup security, as suggested by Woody Valley and Advance. Owners of affected Charly harnesses can get free rework of their buckles at Finsterwalder in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe harness manufacturers are responsible for the authorization and control of the rework service workshops. For reworking, the plug heads are clamped vertically aligned in a vise and filed according to the rework instruction using a half round file\u201d, informed Finsterwalder.<\/p>\n<p>Affected harnesses include models by Advance, Aerochute, Aeroman, Aeros, Airbulle, Air Heart, Aky\u00fcz, AVA Sport, APCO, Carona, Ellipse, Easy Fly, Finsterwalder &amp; Charly, Flight Design, Fly Castellucio, Fresh Breeze, Gin, Independence-Skyman-Flymarket, Ochmann, Onda Enterprises, Sky Paragliders, Fly Products, Karpo Fly, Lookout Mountain, Madreiter, Moyes, Nenerotor, Cwudzinski, PXP, SE-Wing, Sigma, Sitec, Skylotec, SKY Paragliders, SkyTrekking, Supair, Paravis, SOL, Vonblon, Wallend-Air, Wills Wing, Woody Valley, Yamamoto and other manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See instructions for reworking the buckles on:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/finsterwalder-charly.de\/home\/safety-notice-for-click-lock-u-t-lock.html#nachfeilen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/finsterwalder-charly.de\/home\/safety-notice-for-click-lock-u-t-lock.html#nachfeilen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having informed 43 paraglider harness manufacturers about how to rework their grounded harnesses following the safety notice about Click-Lock and T-Lock buckles, Finsterwalder encourages affected pilots to contact their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[528,524],"tags":[612,601,430,547,577],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paragliding-news","category-paragliding","tag-charly","tag-finsterwalder","tag-harness","tag-paragliding","tag-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}