I have a question about the string supressors on my mathews lx. On the bottom cam, the shooting string is just barely making contact with the supressor at rest. The idler wheel supressor is contacting the shooting string enough that the string is actually bowed out a little while at rest. I contacted the tech guy at mathews and he said that this is normal because the tiller is 1/8 inch different on the bottom limb. I e-mailed him back and told him that I thought all mathews bows were even tillered. His response was that you bottom out mathews limbs and then back them off equal turns until you reach the poundage you shoot, but this does not necessarily mean the tiller will be exactly even. He says on the lx that their is a 1/8 inch difference on the bottom limb. I had a new winners choice string and cables put on the bow and had my friend at the shop put it back to specs. The axle to axle is 35 7/8, and the brace is 6 5/8. It is a 70 pound bow and I am shooting 68 pounds. Is their a good way to measure the tiller on this bow, and do you all agree with the tech guy. I wish they would stop giving these short answers that never really answer your question. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Bhunter32.
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Aim for the boiler room. Bhunter32.
My bottom one is actually touching more than the top one. And my tiller is about 1/8" different (shorter on bottom), although I did not know it was supposed to be this way.....I did know that it doesn' t really matter as long as the limbs are backed off the same amount on a Mathews.
I don' t know if it matters but my ATA was 35 3/4 new and I just had it re-set to 35 3/4.
Measure tiller by taking some dental floss (or similar thin string) and going around the axle pins on the bow. measure from the floss to the limbs at the point where they meet the riser.
Measure tiller by taking some dental floss (or similar thin string) and going around the axle pins on the bow. measure from the floss to the limbs at the point where they meet the riser.
Tiller is measured from where the limb meets the limb pocket......straight across to your string.......I thought ?
One most 1 cam bows, the string is NOT parallel to the riser. The cam being NOT round, and the idler being round....generally do NOT hold the string the same distance from the axle....effectively, they don' t have the same radius. If you change the timing of your cam...the radius where the string meets the cam changes as well. The only constant is the axle...this is where you should measure from to find tiller. Most bows having symetrical limb pockets...the easiest place to measure to is where the limb meets the riser.
I have wondered how much speed the string supressors take away.I now,I now,,String leeches would take away 2 or 3,but what about the weight of those surpressors on the limb tips ??.Extra weight on the limb tips []
Mathews LX Supressor ?
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