Ones and for all: How to compare good/bad quality stilts:

[lidor1980]

There is some differences quality stilts, and some of them are very dangerous, i think you should know that and not always just say about quality.
I am sure this will help you guys to differentiate between them.
So this are 3 main differences and USUALLY - not always- you will see all of them in one stilt, and sometimes you will see just some of them.
First, it is the most important thing: behind the twins muscles:
In the left part you will see the bad quality and in the right the good one, that is for all the pictures.
You can see that it's caught with 4 rivets, which is super dangerous, it is not holds on for a long time and it's just broken after couple of monthes. I almost broke my leg for that twice.


Second thing is the footlever, if you have this bending there- so you probably have the poor quality stilts.
This footlevers are become broken after some time it's depend how hard you bock and how much, but it will break after a while.
I broke them 3 times and I know some more people that it happened to them too.


Here you can see the crack that I am talking about, with some more bocking it will break for 2 parts.


The last thing that you will see here is the axle or what ever you want to call it in English,
We have 4 of them in every stilt. in some stilts you will see a mix from the good and the bad quality.
Like always- the bad quality is in the left side and it is not hard to see that.
you can see that it is a plastic and not metal like it should be and it is being worm down very fast and the stilts starting to be noisy for that.


So this are the main differences and if you know more let me know.

[kentlee]

this is a great help once im home im checking mine. what make are the ones on the left and the one on the right do you know...

[lidor1980]

I am sad to say but they both are PoweriZers.
And I don't know why when you buy them you get a pair from the bad quality and in another time you get the good ones.
But i chacked flyjumper last month and they were from the bad, all of them.

[mikey]

great help! though one pic i have no idea where it is (the crack pic) and OMG i have the bad pair... though wasn't aware of it. Would any of these things make it too dangerous to bock on? or does it mean that i will just have to be more careful? and would i have to replace any parts/is it recommendable to replace parts? if so could you or anyone else send a link to show where i can get the proper parts from?

[kentlee]

bugger well i ordered poweriSers when i got mine im sure there fine but who knows.. do you have a how too, to your tyer feet things i saw the pics but it didn explain ....

[lidor1980]

great help! though one pic i have no idea where it is (the crack pic) and OMG i have the bad pair... though wasn't aware of it. Would any of these things make it too dangerous to bock on? or does it mean that i will just have to be more careful? and would i have to replace any parts/is it recommendable to replace parts? if so could you or anyone else send a link to show where i can get the proper parts from?

Look, the most important thing (the safety thing) is picture number 1.
You have to take a look from the holes inside the stilts (hard a little beet) and see 2 screws,
If you don't have them so this is dangerous and you need to open there and drill 2  holes and put 2 screws,
That what i did with mine.
I have 2 pairs and one of them is bad quality.

[lidor1980]

And I forgot another thing:
It's the strap on the kneebar behind the leg.
If you have the plastic thing and not the scotch it is the bad quality.

[kentlee]

i got the one on the right yeah.....
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[kentlee]

whats with the tape on the right...

[lidor1980]

It's only a tape...
I tape all the things that can be damaged without.

[kentlee]

good idea... welll done

[mikey]

why should those two wholes be there? whats their purpose?

[PONCHO]

nice one lidor by the way akiva has the bad ones ..........also ,with the neebar what do you mean with the scotch?

[lidor1980]

nice one lidor by the way akiva has the bad ones ..........also ,with the neebar what do you mean with the scotch?

I know that already because of the footlever who broke.
And about the scotch... Do you have a better word for that?

[Athoul]

nice one lidor by the way akiva has the bad ones ..........also ,with the neebar what do you mean with the scotch?

I know that already because of the footlever who broke.
And about the scotch... Do you have a better word for that?

I think the English word for that is Velcro, this is assuming that scotch is what i think it is.

Is Scotch this stuff?
Where you have two bits and they stick together?