Assembly of the ibb-tiny-300

1. Untubing
2. Assembly
3. Flight
4. Folding
5. Tubing

1 Untubing

Out of the tube.
  • Open the right side of the Tube.
  • Take care of the two vinyl caps, which hold the 2 spreader carbon rods together.
  • A short zero.4 flying line will also be there, if you have ordered one.
  • Unfold the sail completely and lay it out.

2 Assembly

Kite assembly step 1: connecting the carbon spine parts.
  • First assemble the spine of the kite.
  • The shifting coupling is on the upper part of the spine carbon rod.
  • Shift the coupling over the lower spine rod down to the stopper.
  • The Spine is ready now, let's continue with the wings.
Kite assembly step 3: moving the wing structure down, then up.
  • Push the upper wing carbon rods downwards until they reach position "2".
  • Now upwards, to the left in the picture, into the leading edge pockets.
  • The red dot on the sail is much smaller and black on your kite.
Kite assembly step 4: inserting the upper wing rod into the ferrule of the lower part.
  • Push the upper wing carbon rod downwards into the small aluminum coupling.
  • The coupling is fixed on the lower short wing part, the insert depth is 10 mm.
  • New there are generous cutouts instead of just a hole.
Kite assembly step 5: the final position of the wing structure.
  • This is the final position of of the wing structure, factory setting.
  • The X-line is facing the dot on the sail perpendicular to the leading edge.
  • By the way: the sail is made of Dyneema Composite Fabric, Icarex and Dacron.
  • Your kite has now the state of a "non-tiny".
  • It's not able to lay completely flat, because the whole thing is 3-dimensional.
  • That's what the synergetic spreader will form.
Kite assembly step 7: connecting the spreader segments together.
  • Finally, take the 2 segments of the spreader out of the vinyl cap.
  • The coupling is fixed harder to one segment, here the left one.
  • Do not lose the cap, as it will hold the 2 spreader segments together when tubing.
  • The two couplings are now newly made from a precisely turned piece of ABS.
Kite assembly step 8: leading edge connector facing the mark on the sail.
  • The built up kite: back view of the connector position.
  • This geometry will settle by itself.
  • The spreader pushes the whole wing structure downwards, slightly.
Kite assembly step 9: the synergetic kite is built up to a 3-dimensional structure.
  • The front side of the Ibb tiny 300 looks like this.
  • By the z-line, the spine is pulled into a slightly convex bowed geometry.
  • The wings are pushed apart elastically by the spreader.
Kite assembly step 10: the nose cap for flights in generous space.
  • One of the additional caps, which is used to hold the 2 spreader segments together while in the Tube.
  • Put one or both onto the nose of the kite for flights in generous space.
  • Remove them for agile floating in confined space.
  • The smallest cap always stays on the nose plastic part, it fixes the nose tensioning line.

3 Flight

Art by Bernhard Luginbühl with a kite by Thomas Horvath.
A kinetic work of Bernhard Luginbühl installed in Zurich Altstetten, near our atelier.
  • The Ibb tiny 300 flies exactly like the standard size Flow or Rhythm Edition.
  • If you like to know more about flight and setup, check the user manual for zero wind kites or some of our videos.
  • When it's time to go back to the hotel, there are two options: Just fold the kite as any other and stick it into the tube nose forward, this takes a few seconds.
  • Or fold it down completely for storing it in the 300 mm Tube. While a storm is arising, this act is more convenient in the hotel.

4 make it tiny

Kite disassembly step 1: the wing rods moved out of the leading edge pockets.
  • The spreader is in its 2 halves again and they are hold together securely by the nose cap.
  • The wing carbon rods are moved down through the leading edge slots and then up to the position shown here.
  • Any hard component, here the rods, will need to be parallel to the spine all the time.
  • You may also take out the 2 upper wing rods completely, while the short wingtip-rods still need to be parallel.
Kite disassembly step 4: the Dyneema sail folded, matching the factory fold.
  • Shift the spine coupling up, until the lower part of the spine is free.
  • Now, you can fold the whole sail to the half length.
  • Some users prefer to completely remove the leading edges out of the kite, but leave the short rods rather in the wingtips.
Kite disassembly step 5: the sail folded along the spine area of the kite.
  • Fold the whole sail to the half width, now ready for rolling.
  • The reference length is the spine area.
Kite disassembly step 6: the kite is rolled completely, ready for storing in the Tube.
  • The kite is rolled quite loosely, that's sufficient for the ø 50 mm tube.
  • Your complete urban zero wind kite gear is now ready for tubing.

5 tubing

Kite tubing step 1: the Tube cap holding one end of the kite together.
  • I like to store the Ibb tiny 300 kite, as any others, from the left side into the Tube.
  • While the Tube cap is holding the kite together, close it.
Kite tubing step 2: a short part of the flying line remains visible when the tube is closed.
  • Close the Tube on the right side.
  • If you store a 20 m zero.4 line with the kite, you may want it to be visible.
  • That's the minimal, yet complete urban floating equipment.
Kite tubing step 3: the tube, the flying line and the rolled kite.
  • Sometimes I just keep the spine, the wings and the spreader as they are, and store the kite nose-forward in the tube.
  • That's when I'm heading back to the hotel in a rush or when the kite is wet and needs to be layed out during the night anyway.

Enjoy your marvelous flight…

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