Bent shafts as window curtain rods hahahaha
Posts by Dan
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I am going to pick one of these up and do the same for my flashers.
I know you're into making it look perfect. You'll get a cleaner recess with the grinder.
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haha nice fib. Good report.
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Welcome to Speardiver.
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Too funny, the man really knows his shades of blue. How can you not admire the posting style with a large font, so that everybody can u-n-d-e-r-s-t-a-n-d. Now that's good customer service.
QuoteDisplay MoreHey Pernicia,
Thank you for your explaination. And, thanks for your support. You are absolutely correct. It is the same latex tubing.
The latex sold by MAKO is a lighter blue and it is called “Primeline latex tubing”. The latex sold by RA is a darker blue and they call it “Rob Allan latex tubing”.
Weather you buy it from MAKO, or RA, you will get high quality latex tubing. RA is certainly a great company and I like to think that MAKO is also a great company. And it is safe to say, both companies provide excellent customer service.
Hey OutdoorCatholic,
You are partly right. However, with all due respect, I need to correct a couple things.
Regarding the shafts, please allow me to correct your first sentence.
Please refer to my post (#42)
Please refer to Mike Damms post (#44)
Please refer to Griswold post (#61)
To make it easy, I will abbreviate as follows:
It was custom gun builder, Chad Morris (Griswold) who developed the spears that I sell. Once the shafts were perfected, he essentially said to me, “Dano, call this guy. This is the guy who can make my shafts”.
The shaft maker incurred all expenses in producing the prototypes to the final product. The shaft maker then started selling these shafts to MAKO, Mike Dams of Florida Freedivers and Daryl Wong (not sure of the order, nor does it matter since none of us incurred the costs to make them).
These shafts are now benefiting several more companies and thousands of spearos. And, Griswold did not ask for anything in return. You can tell by his post (#61) that he respects all persons involved and even went out of his way to suggest that Daryl could have been working with the factory as well. In short, he would rather spearfish than get involved in drama, as most of us would.
Regarding your other statement, I don’t see how RA was speaking about MAKO.
To his credit, RA is a smart guy and knows the MAKO gun and the Rabitech guns are the same guns which have been on the market for almost 10 years now.
MAKO was issued a license to sell the same gun under the MAKO name 4 years ago.
So, after 10 years on the market, he certainly is not implying that MAKO or Rabitech copied the RA gun. They don’t even look alike. Just a quick glance will show that the MAKO gun has a loading butt and the RA gun does not.
Additionally, as I said before, when I first launched MAKO about 4 years ago, I bought all my spears from Rob Allan. RA sold spears to me for period of about 1 ½ years.
So, for a period of 1 ½ years, while I was buying spears from him, he certainly did not have a problem with me. So, why would he have a problem with me now, almost 3 years after I stopped buying spears from him and 10 years after the gun first entered the market? Not possible. He is too nice and too smart of a guy.
I don’t know him personally, but from what I hear, he is a nice guy and is friends with the Rabitech distributor in South Africa who is also a great guy. RA has much more class than to say negative things about his friend or me, publicly. I don’t know exactly what he was referring to, but I am sure he was not speaking about MAKO or Rabitech.
So, forgive me for always seeing the best in people, but I don’t see how he was speaking about Mako or Rabitech.
Hey Lidiver,
Please forgive me. As you can tell, I am impressed with the Primeline latex tubing. Perhaps I should be saying that the Primeline ranks among the best in the world. I think that would be better. I apologize for not thinking of our European brothers and I do stand corrected. Thank you. I do have some specs from Primeline which are available on their website. But, my over zealous statements about the quality of Primeline were made mostly on feedback from our overseas customers. Again, I apologize.
In closing, I want to thank Rob Allan, Mike Damms, Chad Morris (Griswold), Daryl Wong and all you spearos for participating in this civil and respectful discussion. .
Dive safe,
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hmm.. a rigid inflatable float. I bet this would cut down the drag significantly, and still pack down small.
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Maybe not looking like anything edible, and no meat to offer predators. To me trigger fish shape and movement looks somewhere between normal fish shape and the Mola.
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The spigot (part that goes inside the tube) should be around 2" long. If the fit is tight one screw from the bottom should be ok.
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No worries, thread moved. Welcome to the forum.
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Did you make a wood muzzle to fit in a carbon or aluminum pipe? The main idea of the pipe speargun is to be able to assemble ready parts. Normally a wood muzzle is part of a wood speargun, and will be strong enough. Whether it's strong enough the way you did it really depends on the design and thickness of wood in the stress bearing areas. A picture with some measurements would help determine this. How well the wood you used will hold up in saltwater is also a factor.
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Awesome trip/pics. The colors of the old photos always make me feel nostalgic.
I thought you're about 6ft tall Don, if so your friend has to be bigger than 6'9"?
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Thanks for the story Don.
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I didn't expect to see that in NY. Actually I don't know what to expect diving NY at all.
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Just a partially blown one eh
Welcome to the forum Rick.
One of my Main reasons for joining this forum is because when I Search a topic and look for reviews on certain dive products and information, Speardiver.com always pops up as one of the top sources.
I like that.
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Nice pics, vid especially the BW pic.
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I windsurfed a little so I understand how a carbon mast bends to adjust trim. I don't think Xan's logic or description is at odds with the principles of its use. The bottom line is carbon fiber is very strong under load in certain directions, but at the same time almost fragile in others, relatively speaking.
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A curious thing to note about competitive freediving, is that even though diving is part of the word, it's not necessarily part of the sport. I do dig the massage at 4:10, maybe what they mean is it's a prelude for muff diving.
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Gotcha' I'm very keen on adding a 1.5mm and a rashguard to the line.
If money wasn't an issue and I could change my wetsuit every year, I would wear a smoothskin every day over a lined wetsuit.
Just my 2c.
Two years later.. Marco in his Speardiver suit http://spearfishing.world/78350-post54.html
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What's the point of a 1.5mm chicle? A 1.5mm is a warm water suit, it shouldn't even be open cell.
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Thanks for the tip I like that and its what Ill do. I dont really need to hide weight in the handle either. I can just put it in the back of the gun and it will be hidden by the rubber butt pad.
I don't know if you're aware, this handle has weights that fit exactly inside the frame. Easier to do this and the weights are removable if you ever choose to add a reel which will change the balance of the gun. If you epoxy the grips they will not be removable, and it will be difficult to access the rear two screws of the handle frame if ever need to remove it for travel/storage. For these reasons I recommend you use the built in screw holes to hold the grips together.
