Out of Curiosity......("FF" strings)
04-13-2011 | 05:20 PM
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Spike
Joined: Jul 2009
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I hate Dacron,
I love DF97 and 8125.I use them on all of my bows including the self bows.
I have found that some bows give better gains than others with diferent strings, and the string maker has a lot to do with the gains.Take 2 identical strings and stretch one to 300# and just let the bow stretch the other one, or stretch it to 50# or so.. The diference is big. Pre stretching is a good way to get the max benefit.
As for failures again I think the string maker has a lot to do with it, particurarly with skinny strings.
Take 10 strands of DF97 and see the loop size in a flemish twist. That is concentrated forces and a failure is more likely to happen, however pad those loops to 16 strands and look at the loops again. The padded loop is a solution I like. It spreads the forces over a larger area. The padding materialmakes no diference, it is just filler to spread the forces over a larger contact area.
Lift a heavy weight with 1/4" rope by bare hands, then the same load with 1/2" rope.
One more point for those that like to compare things. String up your bow and shoot it thru the chrono, now shoot 10 arrows and chrono it again. It will be faster.
So when you want to compare strings shoot 6 to 10 arrows before recording the numbers. The strands need to seat in to be be consistant.
I never bothered to much with real skinny strings, but do have a couple 8 strand padded loop strings I use with 40# limbs. The rest all have 10 strands with 16 in the loops.
Pete
I love DF97 and 8125.I use them on all of my bows including the self bows.
I have found that some bows give better gains than others with diferent strings, and the string maker has a lot to do with the gains.Take 2 identical strings and stretch one to 300# and just let the bow stretch the other one, or stretch it to 50# or so.. The diference is big. Pre stretching is a good way to get the max benefit.
As for failures again I think the string maker has a lot to do with it, particurarly with skinny strings.
Take 10 strands of DF97 and see the loop size in a flemish twist. That is concentrated forces and a failure is more likely to happen, however pad those loops to 16 strands and look at the loops again. The padded loop is a solution I like. It spreads the forces over a larger area. The padding materialmakes no diference, it is just filler to spread the forces over a larger contact area.
Lift a heavy weight with 1/4" rope by bare hands, then the same load with 1/2" rope.
One more point for those that like to compare things. String up your bow and shoot it thru the chrono, now shoot 10 arrows and chrono it again. It will be faster.
So when you want to compare strings shoot 6 to 10 arrows before recording the numbers. The strands need to seat in to be be consistant.
I never bothered to much with real skinny strings, but do have a couple 8 strand padded loop strings I use with 40# limbs. The rest all have 10 strands with 16 in the loops.
Pete
