ORIGINAL: walks with a gimp
ORIGINAL: atlasman
I have to admit that threads like these have me checking my Patriot with a MUCH closer eye then ever before. A little limb paranoia I guess. Sure does seem like too many to be considered a coincidence to me.
BTW........I have seen a lot of people say that "All bow companies have limbs that crack".......or......."All limbs are made from the same manufacturer"
While I am sure that is true.........not all bow companies do the same things with those limbs once they get them.........all bows are different and stress their individual limbs differently as well.
It is not unreasonable to start to wonder when you see a rash of cracked limbs coming from a company that is constantly pushing the envelope of speed that those two things may be directly related.
Maybe Bowtech's 2004 designs just put too much pressure on the limbs........or maybe it was an assembly issue.........or maybe the more bows you sell the more stuff like this you see.
No matter what the answer is........it sucks for those that have to go through it.
I think some of the limb problems in the past were attributed to incorrect pressing or pressing the bow with an outdated press. The limbs are very short and highly stressed and coupled with a press with big rollers that put pressure too close to each other,, something could happen with less that experienced shop personel.
You're right Russ. Some of the presses I've seen in my travels don't even qualify to be called a bow press for some of today's designs and some of the ways I've seen bows pressed sometimes fall short of being technical expertise.
The best presses I've seen to date are your two presses, the Sure Loc X-Press and the Apple Super Pro press with the Hydrualic jack, even though the first three mentioned are definately easiest on the risers and especially the limbs.