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I acquired my Landau, Version A box from Robert Landau at the 1985 NSS Convention.
My Landau, Version A is 57 mm. long, 57 mm. wide, 57 mm. high, and weighs 99 g. It is a single channel chest box consisting of a back piece and a single pulley assembly. The back piece is milled from 5/8-inch (16 mm.) aluminum plate. It has s 50 mm. tall slot for attaching the box to a chest harness. The nylon roller rides on a stainless steel shaft that is press fitted into the aluminum side plates. These attach to the back piece with a quick-release pin. The side plates are milled so that the clearance at the roller is about 3/4 inch (19 mm.).
The quick release pin is stamped "AVIBANK PUSH" and "BLS5B10S."
The Landau rollers are compact devices. The narrow design means that it tends to pull the chest harness away from the chest.
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I acquired my Landau, Version A box from Robert Landau at the 1985 NSS Convention.
My Landau, Version B is 63 mm. long, 57 mm. wide, 60 mm. high, and weighs 108 g. It is a single channel chest box consisting of a back piece and a single pulley assembly. The back piece is milled from a wider (17.5 mm.) aluminum plate than Version A. It has s 50 mm. tall slot for attaching the box to a chest harness. The nylon roller rides on a stainless steel shaft. The roller shaft is not press fitted to the side plates, but is retained by external retaining rings. The side plates are larger than Version A’s, cover the roller, and lack the milled step that Version A has.
The quick release pin is stamped "AVIBANK 55207"
Version B is generally superior to Version A, although the press fit in Version A is less likely to fail than the retaining rings used in Version B.
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