No knock on the XLC, it's really my favorite hammock to date but I've been having some zipper separation issues at the pin & box (start point). Not sure why the design places it so far from the gathered end but it seems like I put too much strain on it and it just pops out quite easily.
I'm sure Brandon would make the issue right but I'm headed out on a trip in a few days and I thought I'd to do a DIY to get me through. As it turned out I happened on what I think is a pretty good solution.
Sacrificing one of my wife's old brassieres, I used a seam ripper to remove set of hook and eyes, you know the ones where the bra joins in the back. Then I hand sewed them into the zipper tape on my XLC just under the box and pin (starting point) to relieve strain on the zipper.
Well it worked so well that I'm not even going to bother Brandon with a return on the hammock. I just figure it's maybe one zipper out of a batch, we've all had a coat or two that the zipper was always popping loose at the bottom and you had to work it like the dickens to get it back to the beginning to undo it. In any case, now I can yank and tug on that thing and it's just solid, even when I sit sideways in the hammock and lean back.
Again, no knock on the XLC, probably just a bad zipper and passing along a mod that might be helpful for some other XLC owners.
David
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Originally Posted by dangerous
It occurred to me that the underwire might possibly be the original implementation of the pole mod 
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