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Care and Maintenance
When properly cared for, the EPICENE will last most skydivers for many jumps. The factors that will
shorten the lifespan of your canopy are primarily Moisture, Heat, UV Exposure, Hard Openings,
and Improper Storage:
1. Keep your canopy dry at all times. All moisture exposure will degrade the coating which
provides the correct level of porosity to the cloth. Avoid water landings, and try to keep your
canopy away from moist or wet landing areas. Never pack or store your canopy when wet or
damp. If your canopy becomes wet or damp, hang dry it in the shade, NOT in direct sunlight.
2. Do not store your canopy in a hot location. Avoid leaving it in hot vehicles, for instance.
3. Do not expose your canopy to unnecessary or excessive UV/sunlight – obviously your canopy
is not allergic to the sun, but we don’t recommend letting it sit out in direct sunlight unnecessarily.
4. Avoid hard openings at all times. Pack appropriately, and moderate your airspeed at
deployment. Excessively hard openings may damage your equipment, and may result in
serious injury or death.
5. For periods of extended non-use, store your canopy unpacked, in a cool, dry, dark location,
away from solvents, batteries, or any chemical that will damage or degrade synthetic materials.
Exposure to car battery acid or even the fumes emitted from car batteries will degrade or
completely ruin your canopy and other nylon skydiving equipment. Always discard/destroy
any equipment that has had significant exposure to battery acids or harmful solvents.
6. Keep your canopy clean, and out of the dirt and dust as much as possible. Allowing any type
of dirt, sediment, or debris to accumulate inside your canopy or on the exterior surfaces will
degrade your canopy’s lifespan. Packing a dirty canopy will cause sediment to abrade the
surfaces of the materials.
A necessary part of maintaining your canopy is understanding and recording its usage. We
recommend logging every jump that you make on your EPICENE, and recording deployment
parameters for each jump such as wingsuit, non-wingsuit, type of wingsuit, estimated airspeed, etc.
Epicene line sets are made to exacting specifications. Replacement line sets can be ordered
directly from Squirrel LLC. We do not recommend purchasing line sets from your local rigger.
In addition to you inspecting the EPICENE before each jump, your EPICENE should be thoroughly
inspected by a certificated rigger every 200 jumps or annually (whichever comes first), or whenever
it is potentially exposed to harmful conditions including but not limited those listed above.
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