NooneOfConsequence wrote on Jan 8
th, 2021 at 8:30am:
@kilisi, According to the description on Amazon, slingky uses a rubber o-ring under the eyelet to help prevent ripping. That o-ring would distribute the forces over a slightly larger area and compensate for irregularities in how the eyelet was compressed onto the leather.
I use 2 or 3 layers of leather when I put an eyelet on a sling, and I install it with a benchtop eyelet press to get uniform compression. The handheld eyelet tools never worked well for me. And the hammer-and-die method for installing eyelets probably works fine in skilled hands, but my results were inconsistent when I tried it before I bought a press.
I don't actually put the eyelets in, I have a client with all the bench machinery who uses it all the time for their products. One of their guys did it for me, so I'm assuming it was all done professionally, no rubber O-ring though.
I've given up on separate pouches though, too much effort and they all break eventually. I routinely throw rocks over a pound when I'm having fun, so I think thats the problem. I'm a smash-it-up slinger, never cared about range. If I throw a small stone for distance I can't even see where it lands sometimes, so don't see the point.