I've never seen a split/damaged band slot. I'm interested to see some of those pics.
Posts by Dan
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Good info, thanks Phil. Probably a great mech for a bluewater gun, but more of a hindrance than an advantage for a two band speargun. The top of the mech housing being round, I can't remember if the notch has to be purposefully aligned down, which would not be intuitive. Correct me if I'm wrong on this.
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In my queue.
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Nice post Daniel, it gives a good perspective on JBL spearguns. I'll add that the new Elite series JBL guns while being a huge leap forward from the low quality "spearguns" JBL sold for many years, I don't like the Kitto mech, don't like the new handle, and don't see the point of the plastic muzzle. The handle is not ergonomic. The mech while it has the mystique of the Kitto label I found to be rough to engage the shaft in, and aesthetically it's obtrusive. Probably it shoots fine once you get past those things, but to me a speargun is about the details.
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hey guys how can i upload my pic or pics?
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You can file down a little bit to create a flat surface on an angle. This way you can maybe drill the hole on an angle rather than bend the pin afterwards. Make the tolerance really small, to the point you can't insert the pin, then heat the shaft and bang the pin in. It will never come out by itself, no welding necessary for one or two 16mm bands.
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I guess for actors. I'm sure they have support and are never more than a few feet from the surface. I can't believe film makers invested in underwater equipment for that movie.
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Very cool the slinging in the beginning. The circus thing's pretty stupid and ruined it.
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Welding does weaken the area. But I think there's never too much stress on that area of the shaft so it should be ok. If the fin is for loading only adding a pin is easier.
Interesting how things change with time. SA shafts with sherkfin tabs for US mechs are now available.
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The pics are ocean trigger fish. The vids are grey trigger fish, or I can't tell in the first vid. I've seen small greys on the reef. Ocean I always see in mid water or higher in deeper water.
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Nice find Nate. Out of the two vids the closest to what I do is the first one. But the way "chef" does it he's missing some meat on the other side of the rib bone and the cheek. Don't cut across the fish, you can peel it all the way to the mouth. If the peeling's hard you can use the knife and roll up the skin in it away from the tail.
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This is just a post to easily figure out underwater pressure. I always forget how to do it.
_______________________Pressure increases with ocean depth
At sea level, the air that surrounds us presses down on our bodies at 14.7 pounds per square inch (1 bar). You don't feel it because the fluids in your body are pushing outward with the same force.
Dive down into the ocean even a few feet, though, and a noticeable change occurs. You can feel an increase of pressure on your eardrums. This is due to an increase in hydrostatic pressure, the force per unit area exerted by a liquid on an object.
The deeper you go under the sea, the greater the pressure of the water pushing down on you. For every 33 feet (10 meters) you go down, the pressure increases by 14.7 psi (1 bar). In the deepest ocean, the pressure is equivalent to the weight of an elephant balanced on a postage stamp, or the equivalent of one person trying to support 50 jumbo jets!
Many animals that live in the sea have no trouble at all with high pressure. Whales, for instance, can withstand dramatic pressure changes because their bodies are more flexible. Their ribs are bound by loose, bendable cartilage, which allows the rib cage to collapse at pressures that would easily snap our bones.
A whale's lungs can also collapse safely under pressure, which keeps them from rupturing. This allows sperm whales to hunt for giant squid at depths of 7,000 feet (2,100 meters) or more.
Pressure at depth - Gives the pressure in atmospheres (atm) at a given depth in sea water
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Use the hotspots map for some public numbers.
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Two year old thread BTW.
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Al, there's an easier way to process a triggerfish by skinning it. Someone please chime in and explain.
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Nice mutton.
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Great fish. Look at the sea, it's glass, nice.
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More visible for you, the fish, the driver? I never lose track of my float line because I'm always near it, so it doesn't need to be "visible" for me. It's not good for the line to be visible to the fish, it scares them. The moment the driver is 60ft away with the boat he no longer sees the float line in any case, that's what the float and flag are for.
I toss my line and float in the water and never had a problem. On the contrary guys who have the tube line seem to always be messing with it on the boat, and the line is always kicking around occupying a lot of space when not in use. To the point that I considered a few times not allowing the tube line on my boat. Whoever's not sure about it try both tube and poly and see what you feel is necessary. I'm keen on gear and sometimes go overboard taking the time to make a particular piece of gear perfect. But I wouldn't waste my time threading line through a tube and sealing the ends, just don't see the point.
