CONCEPT FRIDAY 2/17/2012- Alpine Box conversion for the Arbee harness
After seeing the experimental conversion that I did for Jay Kennedy, Paul Siegel wondered if I would do the same for him. I said I would, thinking this will be an easy add on to the Arbee harness. THEN Paul told me he had a Fritzke Alpine Box. The Alpine Box is different than other chest boxes because it has a single, angled slot for the torso strap and shoulder strap. Other chest boxes have separate slots.
The torso strap was fairly straight foward. I just had go from the 1 1/2" webbing down to 1" for the box. I doubled the 1" webbing for added stiffness and durability.
I thought about just threading the shoulder straps through the slots, but I was worried that the "bunching" would make it difficult to go back to the Cinch-Tite system if Paul decided to go back to a dedicated Frog system. So, I built the add-on loops for attaching the shoulder straps. The loops are threaded "backwards"
for more friction and to keep the tails out of the way.
I do have one concern. Because the harness was designed as a one-size-fits-most for Frog system users, the shoulder straps might be too long for use with the Alpine box. I won't know until Paul has a chance to do some testing with it.
Special thanks to Garry Storrick for keeping the Vertical Devices website up and running. Without that site I would not have been able to make the pattern of the Alpine Box.