dissipator bars?????
 

how much should the pads be against the limbs at rest i dont know if i installed the bars at the right tension against the limbs, the pads look like there too far down, what is the correct tension???

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Rick, can you give us a picture?

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i dont have a digital camera!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i'll install everything again if one of you guys walks me through it!!

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I'm at work and I don't have a crossbow here (just my compound, LOL!). Does anyone here have a picture of the pads against the limbs?

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Shouldn't need a pic. Just tighten the screws holding the bars snug, cock the bow and then install pads. Don't gorilla tighten the screws on the pads or you will need new pads, and voila, it's ready to go. As I recall, there isno adjusting the user can make. What I'm not sure on is if you install the diss bars w/ the bow strung or unstrung, I'd go w/ unstrung as a guess.

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I just used the stringing rope,put the pads in,let the limbs back,then strung it and all went well.

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I have never taken the bars off of mine, they came installed on the CB. I did have to put the pads on and just did like the video said and they went on ok. I do have one screw that is kinda "soft" if ya know what I mean. It has never came out but I know I turned it to hard putting it in. But I think from your post you are talking about the bars and not just the pads. Here is a pic of mine and hope they help.

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Pic's show good pad contact, i have my screws all at 7/8" so its all the same.

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Here's 2 cents from the cheap seats, lol. The contact between the limbs and the pads at rest is moot, imho. The diss bars and pads come into effect when you fire the bow and the limbs spring forward quite a bit from their position at rest. Proof of this is string damage from too low of a brace height. Regardless of the amt of contact at rest, they have full contact and do their job during the firing sequence. According to a post from a guy that works at the factory on the Excal site, the older screws had alot of threads but the newer ones are shoulder bolt type and just get tightened up.

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well i guess i have an older style cause mine are not shoulder bolts so i guess i gotta measure the bolts so they are the same, mine looks identical as hotburns at rest so i'm not that concerned, awshucks, hotburn,smokepolehall, and all you guys, thanks i just am not experienced enough with this bow to know any better!!!!;)

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Well, we weren't born w/ these things in our hands either, lol. Have fun!

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No need to say thanks, just keep asking questions and let us know you are getting better. You should have seen me last summer, I about wore some of these guys out when I went from my Horton to my first Excal! LOL!!

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yeah i'm kinda getting it now, the new limbs are nice so far no pock marks on the front of them but i'm shooting a 2216 w/blazers and 125 grain point outfront, with 125 slick tricks today i almost hit them same hole at 22 yards, i might stick with that set-up i just like the aluminum shafts, they are easy to fletch and the inserts come out nice w/a little heat, anyway it still probably shoots in the ball-park 315 or so, much faster than my tenpoint and i've taken 6 deer with that with no problems at all with speed at 299 or so,speed......................:):)

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Can you change out bars on CB's to gain or lighten you CB? For instance, if you wanted less power to fish, could you put 90 lbs bars on a Vortex and/or put 225 lbs for more power?

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No. The diss bars and pads are the same from one model to the next and are only for noise reduction. All the limbs are the same strength/power wise on Excals, just the length of rail diffs to go from 150# to 225# pulls. Believe they made some target limbs for them, Dnk has a set that I know of, maybe he can tell ya what poundage they are. Sounds like you need a Vixen for bow fishing, lol. 10 pt brought out a new bow fishing rig this year, haven't seen one yet, but you can bet it's a class act if it came from them.