Posts by phil herranen

Quote from metelin

great material for saving weight, i have a ti road bike and love it but it's not as stiff as people think. i made several hybrids early on using it and found it to flex way more than i though. in fact, it flexed more that aluminum with an extruded rail built in and at the same price as carbon it just didn't make sense to continue. i think for our purposes the only positive other than the "bling" factor is its resistance to corrosion.

i think that people think ti is some indestructible metal , because of the aerospace roots ,and price . in reality its just, light weight, corrosion resistant aluminum. i do have to admit ti is fun to anodize
phil

Quote from Stick em

I have never tried tape on my fins, do you guys really see an increase in fish attraction? I can see how Jacks would follow you up through the water column or getting macks to swing a little closer I guess. I was thinking tape or better a small mirror on the tip of my gun (think below the shaft) in order to give them something to look at while I line up. I just might try some tape on the fins in Baja next month. Thanks for passing on the type of tape.

it helps with yellow tail in bad vis . the flash makes them curious and they come in for a look. i dont know how much it helps in clear water
phil

Quote from Dan

These guys apparently are making titanium trigger mechs speargun blue water trigger mechanism

http://www.speargunsystems.com/triggerpicforpage.jpg

using ti for a trigger is a bad accident waiting to happen .ti is malleable and will shatter like glass under high load impact .it is not a good choice for ,trigger mechs ,or spear tips. it is best used for light weighting motor cycles ,bikes , and airplanes .
phil

Quote from Joe Acevedo

Hi Marco = broadbill swordfish
I have only been in the water twice with the beasts
But they keep spooking out

This year I'm going to try and deploy my paddle board from the boat , this might be a big help
... Joe

Sorry for derail Don

thats my white whale also ,ever since i as good as shot on a couple years back (long story and its not one you tell on the net ) short story had the fish ,had tuna gun, had the tuna float set up ,had the desire ,and was willing , but i was stopped .
phil

Quote from ddonnell

Just was told by a Riffe team member that the sear is made to accept both, so no problems.

Had me worried. Especially since I remembered we kept the guns live in the ponga..:@

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they can say whatever they want, that is not safe , especially in a riffe mech , a round notch shaft puts upward pressure on the top of the housing ,you said it as loaded with 5 bands ? that means you had 400# to 500# of pressure acting on the top of that thin sheet metal housing,that is desgined to have 0# presure with a square notch shaft :@
phil

looks like a screw up at the riffe factory . personally i wouldnt use that in a big gun ,it will engage in the mech but will cause a lot of up force on the housing ,and down force on the sear ,in addition to the pulling force that the sear is designed for .
phi

btw many euro shafts will work in american mechs ,and many euros will work with "riffe" shaftsl

i have a friend that had it happen. a sport boat ran over his float line ,riped his gun out of his hands , he found the gun a day later after hours of searching
phil

i think a important question to ask is , was it dead first (brought up dead in nets , found dead ,or near dead on the beach) and the fins were kept , or was it finned alive and thrown back. there is always more to the story
phil

I will get back to this thread in a day or two . I have a few guns I'm trying to get out .
Phil

yes ,that is by far the best,strongest,most streamlined way to do it . if you absolutely insist in using the big thick ones you can get them at osh
phil

that was amazingly fast service , i had a product sent message within 5 minutes of placing the order
phil

Quote from Dan

Doesn't look like Phil's following through so 2 shoulder straps are still available, 1 new and 1 used.

just did it ,sorry it has been a couple long days for me i had a roof open and a storm was on its way ,just closed it up just as the rain started at 4 today.
phil

i will do it when i get home tonight
phil

do i just put a note somewhere ,or will you just remember ?
phil

i want one , i have the very first banks board out of the mold ,and jon didnt have straps yet ,every time i see him i forget to ask to buy one. i will order a knife and you can throw it in the box with it . do you have a number to call or should i go threw the site?
phil

yellow always seems to show up no mater what the depth is
phil

Quote from red tide

When you do the test it should be done with 400 lb mono to see the relevance. Anything greater than your shooting line is not important. A typical 480 lb swivel will hold the biggest fish that most of us will ever shoot. I use a 270 lb for my reef fish rig and have never been broken off. Just saying....

i can test against mono,but i know its stronger than mono. im simply want to know what type of swivel is stronger if i test with something that fails before the swivel i learn nothing but the fact that the swivel is stronger than mono, and i already know that. mono is changed all the time ,a swivel is reused for years.
phil

here is a pic of my test rig and the failed parts . i will do the next test and video tomorrow
phil

of course the pounds landed is less now than when they were able to fish with gill nets when the fish were in spawning .now its harder to catch them with the gear that commercials are allowed to use. if they were allowed to use gill nets again for a year i bet the tonnage landed would be right back up or above the old numbers.the guy that the quoted in the article also is pushing for a halibut hatchery where he fishes ,and if the numbers ore fine why should there be a hatchery?there is always more to consider when you look at a report like this.
phil

Quote from ladvr

I've read that ingesting small amounts of poison oak buds can help build up a resistance. The Chumash and probably other aboriginal tribes suffered no effects from the poison oak.

most people that have some amount of american Indian in them are immune to poison oak. i can roll around in the stuff and have never been able to get it .
phil