I am also looking for one of these- I have an ASW-17; I have one drag
chute, and it's in good shape, but things happen, and I would like to
have a spare.

I recently wrote both the manufacturer (Walter Kostelezky GmbH,
Weingarten, Germany www.kostelezky.de) and Schleicher asking about
the availability and price of a replacement.
Both said the chutes are theoretically still available, but they would
prefer to make a small production run (to justify setting up the
tooling, probably), there would be about a 6-8 month lead time, and
the cost would be around 1300 Euro + shipping.

The ASW-17 uses the model BS1600 (Baenderschirm, 1.6 Meter, I'm
guessing). I've seen a BS1200 mentioned somewhere, but I don't know
which glider uses which.

The thing is beautiful- a real piece of art. Each ribbon is a great
circle, continuous to the opposite side. Half go to the left at the
edge and half to the right, so it's a crisscross pattern. Each ribbon
is ~ 1.5 inches wide, so at the apex vent, they overlap to make the
upper 1/2 of the canopy solid. At the edge, each pair of ribbons is
sewn to a shroud line. Every six of the shrouds is attached to a
catenary, which has a double shroud at each end. There are 36 of the
upper shrouds, and 6 of the long double shrouds. (This seems perfectly
clear to me, but I know it's not if you aren't looking at one. I'll
attach a photo if I can figure out how. (This is my first post.)

I'm starting to look admiringly upon old umbrellas...

-Rob



On Sep 29, 12:51 pm, Berry wrote:
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Need the Ribbon chute for an ASW17 or Nimbus 2.

Anyone got one in their hanger?

Cheers

Al

Is that the same chute as used on a 301 Libelle? I gave a spare chute to
Burt Compton once upon a time. Maybe he still has it.