Posts by bajabound

  • Coming clean.

    Yeah and I know Guy Skinner with JBL and wasn't thrilled when you offered to paste a pic of a JBL to the walker, but I didn't get my panties all in a bunch. I figure what your boy and the mystery cheater oughta do is hit the PM key and hash it out just like you can do with me anytime.

  • Coming clean.

    Quote from LunkerBuster

    Dan I am not sure if your comment was directed at me? I agree with your comment so I hope it wasn't. I am not trying to make up any issues, I was only stating that issues that effect the reputation of spearos is all that concerns me, not comp freediving allegations...I should have been more clear.


    Me too, but I wonder why the knee jerk reaction. :confused1: There are no imaginary, theoretical or half baked agendas from where I'm coming from. This is old shit and there opinions like rear ends. Let me put it to you this way- my g/f was reading over my shoulder and said, "Is this shit STILL going on?!" Thus my alluding to public perception. Where's the idea going over the smilie face emoticon? :)


    OK, maybe I'll post my original statement like this, make nice-nice... "Hey, Rick unless you're going to put up some real hard evidence and be explicit, keep it between the two of you and outta here. This putting something up on a website does nobody any good." Regards.

  • Coming clean.

    My low opinion of riksafer is purely aimed at his just playing games with no names or substance.
    The analogy could be used that I know "some other board owner is a pompous cheat and he's done this and that but I'm not going to name names, just let you guess..." C'mon, grow up riksafer, go 100% or shut up and deal with it on your own.


    I think you mistake my public inclusion angle. We over here are getting royally hosed by public outcry over beach access and animal/fish rights and when crap like rik's is made public, albeit in a "private" forum, it just makes us all look like pendejos.


    I agree with you that the upper echelon of competitive freediving AND spearfishing is full of cheats and so I don't choose to participate anymore. That said, the skills necessary in competitive breatholding are certainly a plus for spearing safely.

  • Omer Airbalete 110

    Quote from Don Paul

    I'm wrapping my hand around some thick wood.:@:D;)


    Like I said, I'm busy this next year and well into 2137...


    As far as doing the camo thing, I've been looking at the liquid film applications that are ready made to wrap around anything, but I want to see how adding some protection in the form of a thick coat of Envirotex makes it past the gun bucket. The Sporasub One I have is done this way and it's pretty sweet.

  • Coming clean.

    Well he's the only one naming him rather than inferring him which is what this chicken shit is playing rather than just coming out and saying, I know for a fact and have evidence..."


    And even if this clown wasn't playing games, I would still be screaming that Fererass is a murderer.


    Without living a drama, you're living with honesty. And while the ego tossing and mudslinging is going on, the public who's support we need to ensure access and community inclusion is looking at the collective sport as a bunch of wankers. I don't need some bitter boyfriend of some egomanical wannabe screwing it up for me, personally. Flame on...

  • Big guns for Yellowtail?

    Quote from Don Paul

    I've killed 4 in my life time looking for a 100 + lb'er. The big ones are wormy. :puke:


    Cheers, Don


    Cheers indeed! :D


    Any fish I have to soak in salad dressing to get to taste like anything other than mud, pass. And I've seen them do a real good imitation of staying out of range until I make up my mind to leave the walker at the bottom and head up.

  • Coming clean.

    Without drama? Oh I dunno, maybe Honest. :blahblah2:


    You asshats not only kill Steve and I but you screw the pooch for those of us that really care about showing up at the beach / dock with our gear and having some peace and respect from the public.

  • BW speargun

    El hombre que vendio el Ono Wong es que desean que se mantenga tambien. Lo compre de el despues de que el reconstruyo todo el asunto. Lo que ahora definitvamente alcanzar los 7 metros. Que Kitto que sean objeto de dumping en Timateo alcanzeria 7 metros, pedir prestado de nuevo.

  • Enlosed Track

    One thing I neglected to add about the 207 hardener is that it's a stone bitch as far as bubbles in the cure. I mean a real pain in the ass. You can blow on them, apply heat from a hair dryer or a propane torch used soberly, but the stuff is a PITA.


    IF you do go the 207 route for the final, get the resin and 207 as warm as the stock is and apply it at the end of the day or when you know the temperature is going to be dropping. That'll help with the off gassing. Sounds counter to the usual "keep it all warm and in the Sun", but there you go.


    Unless it's Envirotex, I got one word for the rest of my guns. Oil. ;)

  • Enlosed Track

    Muchos Don.
    My So Cal experience was limilted pretty much to porn.


    Like assholes, everyone's got an opinion and there's a few here that have expressed and called BS on this gun building rationale, but whatever. I suppose that's the difference between actually sticking fish, losing fish and figuring out how and why and then doing something about it rather than just pumping the same crap to the masses or painting some bitchin colors on it. With all due respect to Jay.


    I think the importance of remembering that whatever you're diddling around with, the primary focus is a straight band stretch on a straight platform. After that it's just bling and BS.

  • Enlosed Track

    I'm a believer that the whole using graphite because it's slick-thing is over thought. In a VERY close tolerance application where you want a bearing surface, yeah, but a shaft traveling along a track isn't it. With the as accurate as you can do on a routertable tolerances and the need to have the track a few thou oversize the water between the track and the shaft are what's doing the work of keeping everything straight. If you have a close tolerance track with whatever forming it, it's the water that's the lubricant. That's why a enclosed wood track will do the same thing as one with graphite applied. A milled track of whatever, ie Delrin, UHMW, polyethylene/styrene is just a degree of tolerance closer because you can't control what the wood does. That's why I was saying that for all intents and purposes, you could do a pour with a high density filler like 404 and leave the graphite out completely, sexy as it sounds.


    I did a 404 track once just to see what happened and matched it to an exisiting graphite augmented track and the wear patterns were exactly the same owing to the tolerance of the track, the shaft being slightly out and the position of the bands. There were slight scuff marks in the same places and I could see where the carbon fiber was going to wear slightly worse owing to it not having the density of the higher load and impact resistance benefits of the 404. But it sounds like you're enamoured of the whole carbon fiber thing with the wrapping of the wood barrel with it, and that's cool. The experimenting and flash aspect of building your own stick is a good percentage of what makes this whole thing fun.


    good luck and send the pics.

  • Enlosed Track

    If you're going to finish coat the gun with the 207, fine but realize that there's none to zero UV protection offered by it. It may not be a big deal to you, you might keep your gun in a case or bag all the time, but to keep the wood from cooking in the Sun under the 207 you'll need to wipe the fully cured coating with a very fine synthetic scuff pad and brush on a varnish such as Epifanes. Your labor and costs go up with the 207. A better finish coat is Envirotex- it's a one thick coat deal, has a good amount of flexibility to it and it's UV stabilized. Great shiney stuff. The best deal for it is online.


    Those people that you read advocating the milled micro fibers are more than likely unaware of the potential for moisture wicking along the exposed fibers, they're all about how strong the stuff is. It's like making a track of angel hair pasta and then machining the track hoping that you never expose a noodle. It ain't gonna happen, but boy oh boy ain't she strong! Until the barrel gets soaked. Sure you could do a few passes of catalyzed resin to seal the wood proir to the the pour, so WHEN the milled fibers migrate the wood has some protection but there goes the $ and really, why? My contention is that the track is only as strong as what you pour it into and I'm a heavy mass gun kinda guy so I rely on the wood to do the majority of holding it's shape and stiffness. If you have a whippy length/shape, then you got issues. There I'd do a half pour with milled fibers and let it kick and pour a 404/graphite track over it for the milling. There's your answer. Actually the answer is to call Josh and get a track, butt I digress...


    My preference having done it with balloons, wood dust, milled fibers, gorilla hair and every combination is to have a good solid stock into which you cast the whatever holds the graphite. The resin (105/206) is only the solid binder for the filler which does nothing more than bulk up the resin to fill the track slot. The graphite is what you're concerned with, getting enough of a volume by mix to have it in contact with the shaft at the surface of the pour and the subsequent milling. That's why you'll want the graphite bound in a high density filler like the 404. 404 in itself makes a hell of a solid and slick surface by the way and it's weight isn't a bad thing if you forsee having to add ballast.


    All this is pretty academic but Winter's coming... I'm sure there are dissenting opinions, but this has worked well for me.