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Hello How do you keep your brace height constant with a take down recurve bow ? When unstrung the string unwinds itself & is a pain to put the correct number of turns in again. any suggestions please thanks Robin…
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Two ways. One, remove the string from the limbs, and poke one end through the other loop so that they cannot easily unwind. Other way, is leave the strings ON the limbs and pack them in the case that way. — ARC in Lago Vista, TX What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
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>Hello >How do you keep your brace height constant with a take down recurve bow ? >When unstrung the string unwinds itself & is a pain to put the correct >number of turns in again. >any suggestions please
Beeswax the string, it tends to hold together better. When you unbrace the bow, slip the loop back along the top limb, undo both limb bolts or whatever else holds the limbs in the pockets, at the same time and slip the limbs out of the riser with the string looped on them. Stow the limbs in the case. Reassemble in the reverse order and as you re-brace the bow, the string is in exactly the same place it was last time you struck it down. A rubber band can help stop the string coming off the limb nocks. — Michael Ney
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A safety pin holds the two nock loops with their twists.
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> Hello > How do you keep your brace height constant with a take down recurve bow ? > When unstrung the string unwinds itself & is a pain to put the correct > number of turns in again. > any suggestions please
First make sure the string is properly waxed, that way it will be less likely to untwist if you drop an end. Give it a good coating of wax and buff the excess into the string with a piece of leather (chamois maybe) or lint free cloth. If you have one of these foam arrow racks that come with a lot of the rigid bowcases, I find that one of these will hold a string quite well: put the end loops of the string together and tuck them into one of the arrow holes, then tuck the rest of the string into a couple of the other holes to stop it rattling around your case and getting caught up on other things. Another method I’ve seen, with home made cases, is to install four posts, so that the rectangle they make is slightly longer than the string length, then wrap the string round them, fastening the loops together with a rubber-band/paper-clip. You also just clip the loops together with a bulldog clip, before you put the string away the way you currently do. Whatever you do, make sure you don’t accidentally put a twist in or take one out as you set up/take down your bow, otherwise you’ll end up with a very gradually changing string length (I’ve seen this happen, it puzzled the hell out the guy who was doing it too). Before you buy.
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I use a small rubber band to hold the bottom end of the string on, The top end stays looped around the limb. This has worked well for me for a number of years. Waxing a string is a mixed bag. The amount of wax on a string does have an impact on how a bow shoots, or so I’ve been told. Many people feel that the waxless nature of ASB is desireable. I add wax when I make strings and a little bit every now and then. Regardless of what you do, check the brace height at the beginning of a session and at the end. You might be surprosed… Marty Sasaki
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>>How do you keep your brace height constant with a take down recurve bow ? >When unstrung the string unwinds itself & is a pain to put the correct >number of turns in again.
Simpler than some methods: Take off both loops, being careful not to twist them (lets call them loops a and b). Put loop a through loop b. Pull loop b through loop a. Quick and easy. Refitting is the opposite of removal! — Murray Happy New Year!
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well said. that’s what I meant. <GGG> — ARC in Lago Vista, TX A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->>How do you keep your brace height constant with a take down recurve bow ? >>When unstrung the string unwinds itself & is a pain to put the correct >>number of turns in again. > Simpler than some methods: > Take off both loops, being careful not to twist them (lets call them > loops a and b). Put loop a through loop b. Pull loop b through loop a. > Quick and easy. > Refitting is the opposite of removal! > — > Murray > Happy New Year!
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>well said. that’s what I meant. <GGG>
?? You posted a reply? Sorry if I repeated something you said Ron, but your earlier post hasn’t appeared on my newsreader… — Murray
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> Take off both loops, being careful not to twist them (lets call them > loops a and b). Put loop a through loop b. Pull loop b through loop a. > Quick and easy.
Related question for a recurve newbie, how many twists is to many twists, I get a good brace height at about 25 turns. Is that excessive? Should I just get a shorter string and work from there?
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In article > Take off both loops, being careful not to twist them (lets call them > loops a and b). Put loop a through loop b. Pull loop b through loop a. > Quick and easy. > Related question for a recurve newbie, how many twists > is to many twists, I get a good brace height at about 25 turns. > Is that excessive? Should I just get a shorter string and work > from there?
Well, you haven’t told us how long the string is, but that doesn’t sound excessive for an average string length. As a rule of thumb, there should be enough twists for the string to form a good round "rope", but not so many that it curls itself up like a dying snake, when you take it off the bow. Between these extremes use as many twists as you need to get the right bracing height. Before you buy.
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>Related question for a recurve newbie, how many twists >is to many twists, I get a good brace height at about 25 turns.
I reckon, from my limited experience, that somewhere between 15 and 30 turns is fine. If you’ve got a nice sounding bow at 25 turns, I’d leave it as it is. You could always make a slightly shorter string and see what difference (if any) it makes to your grouping, but I don’t think it’ll make any difference at all. — Murray.
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> Related question for a recurve newbie, how many twists > is to many twists, I get a good brace height at about 25 turns. > Is that excessive? Should I just get a shorter string and work > from there?
The rule of thumb is 1 turn for each 3" of string i.e. 60" siring = 20 turns. You need some twists to stop the string ‘parachuting’ on release.
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There are reports that several top FITA archers have used up to 40 twists on their strings, with good results. I’ve also shot Flemish strings which have had around 35 twists will no ill effect. It was fun to shoot a red and white flemish string (Dynaflite97) for a while, but I changed to ASB, which doesn’t come in colors and is hard to use for Flemish strings since it is basically unwaxed. Marty Sasaki
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>There are reports that several top FITA archers have used up to 40 >twists on their strings, with good results. >I’ve also shot Flemish strings which have had around 35 twists will no >ill effect. It was fun to shoot a red and white flemish string >(Dynaflite97) for a while, but I changed to ASB, which doesn’t come in >colors and is hard to use for Flemish strings since it is basically >unwaxed. > Marty Sasaki
It depends on the type of string. If you are using FastFlight, then I use between 75 and 100 twists, however I them polish the string using a leather, to make it into a rope. — Alex Ramage
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>How do you keep your brace height constant with a take down recurve bow ? >When unstrung the string unwinds itself & is a pain to put the correct >number of turns in again. >any suggestions please >thanks >Robin…
Robin, there are a few things out there that work well for this, one of the easy ways is to keep the bow together and slide the big ended loup down the limb, or you can use a small string and clip it to the end of the string back to the limb pockit
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I would use as many twists as required to get the brace height you need. If the string curls up like a "dying snake" when you take it off….so what as long as when the bow is strung, it performs. You will know if you have too many twists for a given string length if one or both end loops start to twist over themselves. bownut In article – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Take off both loops, being careful not to twist them (lets call them > loops a and b). Put loop a through loop b. Pull loop b through loop a. > Quick and easy. >Related question for a recurve newbie, how many twists >is to many twists, I get a good brace height at about 25 turns. >Is that excessive? Should I just get a shorter string and work >from there?
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