Way to go Harry, even without a cold.:thumbsup2:
Cheers, Don
Posts by Don Paul
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Good point. It certainly could have been the crimp.
Jeff I had the same issue in a closed track nylon muzzle I fab'ed in 82 , that I ran a wing tab'ed shaft
threw. I believe the shaft/swage caused the damage and not the metal wishbones.
The first two test mules I made I blew off the end of my gun.:@
That's why testing can be so fun.:D
I'm going out now to test my old bones and mountain bike now.
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We use that for its original intended purpose
All that's getting too complicated for me. I think I'll just fill it and see what happens.
Just a guess ... I hate to do math at home while I'm drinking. I would find a boat yard and buy some 4 lb
poly 2 part foam and take out a plug.This is what my friends and I use.
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Ha, there are no friends here with tire weights. Every tire shop I went to is already collecting the scrap weights for someone that pays them. What's Hawaiian tropic?
What do you guys use down there?:D
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The barrel is too bouyant and the gun floats with the shaft in. I can only add ballast in the front and back ahead of the plugs. I don't like how the gun feels like that, I want the weight balanced through the length of the gun.
That makes perfect sense, you can pay a visit to a tire guy friend and get a handful of stick on wheel weights.
Wash all that Hawaiian Tropic off the barrel with alcohol and trim it the way you want in a salt H20 pool.:D:D
Then you can calculate your foam wt.
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Don, it's plugged.
What is your reason for the Syntactic? I'm just guessing that you want to buffer some gun noise
and still have the barrel float ?
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Jeff, I need to know for sure whether it will float this gun without the shaft. How can I figure it out beforehand?
Not trying to respond to Jeff's question but, Is the CF barrel plugged or wet?
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DON,all the girls like his big hands,ha
Yeah.. it's the only thing that get's me a crew.:D
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OK I give up
If you drill the last band tab and make the loop extend past the end of the shaft, the swage can hide behind
the end of the shaft. This will cause less turbulence and less directional drag.Some guy just add more bands.;)
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Makes sense. Maybe we should wax our shafts like Americas Cup racing yachts wax their hulls?
Funny you should say that... after heat treat I have my shafts polished, Twenty years ago I welded some Ti
Comp guns for friend. We found some great teflon tape that we stuck on the barrel.If you start with small changes ie; Ballistic shaped tips, with cleanly faired in wings and low profile thin tabs,
and unkinked mono cleanly swedged to hide behind the shaft, the small changes add up.I know you guys want pics but my EX ended up with my new digital cam.:rolleyes1:
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I always wondered why Riffes always had such big loops....
Jay has been coached for many years, guess where the pin/ line shaft hold down idea came from ?.;)
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Found this mono wheel at bass pro shops made for mono leaders. It was $1.99, 6.5 inches diameter.
Has holes at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock with slits that allow the shark fins to go through and a tight squeeze if used on the flopper side. I have 15ft of line in it but it can easily hold 2 wraps.
I use the same ones, I even store my shafts this way until the weekend diving begins.
Hey while I have you on the phone.:D
If you make you mono loop longer as to tuck the swage behind the end of the shaft you'll get more laminar
flow. Did you know the mat camo finish on the P51 killed a small percentage of top speed ?
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Welcome and THANK YOU for your service mate,:thumbsup2:
There's a lot of good freedive clubs up there, what is the general area you will be diving?
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