HOWTO: Keeping TK shins in place

[Altair]

I have had a few people in my Garrison copy this idea so I thought I would post it here for FISD members too

 

Do you have an issue with keeping TK shins in place? More specifically stopping the shin armor from moving up and above your boots? I know I did!

 

When I had this problem I investigated a few different options, I first tried the hook velcro on boot & loop velcro on inner shin combo, whilst this did help I found that walking up and down stairs a couple of times was enough for it to come apart. So I've improved on this with a "stirrup" setup.. The following setup has been tested with many troops (and stairs!) and I have had no issues with riding or twisting

 

Here is what I did...

I made stirrups for each leg using a length of 1inch wide high density elastic, this was glued and stitched to a 50mm x 50mm square of hook velcro.



Then I glued and stitched a 50mm x 50mm square of loop velcro to a piece of nylon strapping the same size. Then glued this into the front of each shin just above the top of the boot line.



When attached it looks like this



This way you can have a "stirrup" setup but you can also put your boots on first





Then attach the velcro before closing your shins as normal



The elastic allows for plenty of movement and pulls the shin back into place if it rides up

 

Hope this helps someone

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Similar to what I have but I use snaps instead of velco

[Sly11[Admin]]

Great system John, thanks for posting this up.

[humperdingle]

Superb!

[dak[TK]]

great idea, thanks for sharing

[DarkTrooper[TK]]

Yep, I've been doing that for the past couple years with my suit. Works great

[likens_mark]

Thx that's going to help me

 

 

 

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[likens_mark]

Thx that's going to help me

 

 

 

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[gromitsdad[TK]]

Woah!  Nice. Definitely doing this!  Thank you for posting!

[TKZombie[TK]]

Awesome, building that this weekend! 

[slindsay808]

Love this. Thanks

 

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[kman[TK]]

Nice trick! If I have any issues with shin piece movement, I'll definitely give this a try.

[Snakeman[TK]]

Thank you!!!!! 

[Wolfpup]

I'm going to try this if what I did doesn't work out. I put a small eyelet in the tongue of the boot and an elastic strap with a hook at the end on the inside of the thigh armor to attach the boot to. I wanted to ensure the armor didn't go up and over the boot.

[Pyrates[TK]]

Great job!

[NorthernGator]

Definitely doing this.

[humperdingle]

Works like a charm! I store the loops in my stormie shoes, so I don't forget to put them on first!

[RLH2515[TK]]

And I just posted how to stop them from twisting and lifting. Great idea

 

 

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[Tisco2k[TK]]

This is just the issue I'm facing with my new armour, thanks for the share ☺

 

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[MLeech77[TK]]

I was just trying to figure out a good way to prevent this and found this thread, thanks OP.

 

 

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