waxing your bow
 

i want to know how often you do this and do you use a blow dryer to melt it into the strings. I melted with my old bow but my new bowtech allegiance i dont want to take a chance at ruining the strings. I seen a post where some of you change your strings every month or 6 months

RE: waxing your bow
 

It's good to do it just about everytime you shoot. Your string will last so much longer if you keep it properly lubricated.

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I don't think I'd apply direct heatfrom a blow dryer to a string.Every archery tech I've talked tohas said that rubbing the waxed string between your fingers vigorously is more than enough to spreadthe waxand protect the string.The friction from your fingersproduces enough heat to do the job. Why risk a brand new set ofWinners Choice stringsto the possibilityof damaging the strings from excess heat.

Mike

RE: waxing your bow
 

well, 452x doesn't like getting hot. if that's what you have, and it probably is on a binary bowtech, just get the string warm when you wax it and give it a rub-down, not hot.

some people rub it down with leather and get it hot, but that's a bad idea - no matter how many times they say it. when you rub a string down with leather and get it hot it doesn't spread the wax through the string. the wax heats up and actually leaves the center of the string and heads for the outside. its the last step in string making to get the wax out of the middle so the fibers lay correctly and you get a correct length.

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Gibblet,

I'm not following you. It seems like you're saying that you shouldn't use leather to get the wax warm, but then you say the last step in making a good string, is to get the wax out of the middle so the fiber lay correctly. This seems contradictory. Are you trying to say that the fibers will lay correctly only when the wax is in the middle?

String material is pre-waxed and the string making process doesn't heat it up. Maybe you trying to say that you need to get this existing wax out of the middle of the string?

RE: waxing your bow
 

i was trying to say the part about getting the wax out of the middle of the string to finish it so you get the correct length - that's good.

and i was saying doing this sort of thing to apply wax to your string wasn't the best idea - warm i think is a good idea, but not too warm or hot like when you burnish it. i burnish it, then apply some good ol ml-6 to it so the silicon will seep back in there in the mail. i'm sure they get plenty warm on their journey to melt the ml-6 throughout the string again.

RE: waxing your bow
 

do u wax every inch of ur string, from axle to axle, or just where the bare string is showing? know what i mean? i'm trying to think of how to explain this. There is the bear string where i knock, but then it is wraped in black string up to the axles.

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You mean, should you wax the serving, too or just the string material.

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bcy advises to wax the serving also if you're using 452x. this would also go for ultra-cam because of the vectran in each. they advise a silicon based wax because they claim the silicon will seep through the serving and keep the fibers underneath lubricated.

RE: waxing your bow
 

Sorry guys[8D]I have been a bowhunhter for 43 years and have used the same piece of leather for nearly twenty years,to rub wax into the fibers and NEVER had a problem. As for how often . . . any time my string feels dry (about every day hunting . . . and every other outing at home . . . or when the striung feels dry.

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Dick, I do the same. I don't burnish the string, but I do rub the wax in with the piece of leather. I've never noticed the wax not going into the string or have strings that failed early. I make my own strings and although I replace them frequently, they are always in perfect condition when I replace them. I measure every string when I take it off and so far, the maximum creep has been 1/16" on a 90-100" single cam string -after a year.

I'm sure that rubbing them hard with the leather might cause too much heat, but simply gently rubbing the was in, appears to work fine.