[balloon-makers] Load Tape Positioning

[Jdr955 at aol.com]

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       Yes Kasey, It would make it easer. 
That was what I was describing in my last post, I just find it hard sometimes to 
describe something in just written text!  Let me try to explain further. If 
you do put the load tapes down the center, you have the benefit of all those 
horizontal seams to sew across. Also at the top of the balloon ( where the chute 
fits in ) and at the mouth, you should have the circumferential load tapes. 
these help disperse the loads further. Although you still have fairly large 
areas, where the load tape is sewn over just one layer of fabric, I think It 
would help if  ( again, I could be wrong here too! ) you used the smallest 
needles possible i.e. size 14? 
    
      Hopefully someone else will come along to 
clarify this! Because I could be completely wrong here!
     
     Best regards 
                            
JIM.