Ozbow

I read some of the posts, but tend not to post. Basically I could live without it.

Don't know about using a dip ghasket, but you've got to be quick using Massey finish. I wiped it on and only got one wipe in one direction before it got tacky.

For me it worked well - spot on or maybe a little under spined. Depends how accurately you can measure the parameters of your bow.

Depends on the bow. With two of my longbows I grip with all fingers firmly but without strangling. With the other two I grip with thumb and one finger, with the other fingers tucked to the side of the grip. Different bows prefer different grips.

I'm with Daryl too. I'd rather make a voluntary contribution than buy something I don't need. The belt buckle was a god buy though.

Minor point unrelated to bows - the trajectory is actually a parabola if you ignore air resistance. It gets a lot more complicated if you include air resistance.

Hi mate, Aluminium and plastic are two of the hardest things to get to bond to each other. I use isopropyl alchohol from bunnings after a light sanding of the shaft and if i am using AAE fltches that have their own activator on them i clean that off with a cotton bud and acetone and then glue them ...

Over the last few months I've been doing a lot of blank-bale work to improve my form for a couple of reasons:

1) the better my form, the better my accuracy. May not work for you, but it does for me.

2) not far to walk to collect my arrows!

Tuggeranong is an AA club that shoots both Target and Field, but mainly Target. Steve is no longer the main contact but he'll be able to tell you who is. Their web site is: http://home.tuggeranongarchery.com/ If you're more interested in ABA than AA, then Capital Field Archers might suit you better....

No never - we don't have a television. I do argue with the radio, and sometime even with the newspapers.

Saw some many years ago made by a guy called Don Rust from Shellharbour area. Can't remember if he shot them, but they looked good.

Nice bow, but I love the nocks. Glued on, or pinned and glued somehow?

You will notice that vegetable type oil is applied to the area to aid in heat penetration. A FEW WORDS OF WARNING; do not use OILS of any description if you have subsequent gluing applications to carry out in or near the heat treated area. It is for this very reason I use steam when making my bambo...

Haven't had a problem with slippery rocks with the Vibram soles on my Asolos unless there was wet moss on the rocks. I don't claim they stick like rock-climbing shoes, but I haven't had a problem. Might depend on the rocks though. Some might cause a problem and I just haven't come across them.

Can't speak for coolness in FNQ, but my preference in the bush is top grain leather. Keeps out the grass seeds, dust, etc and I find that the material doesn't matter much for keeping my feet cool. I use Asolo TPS 520, but I don't necessarily recommend them, they just happen to fit my feet really well.

rodlonq wrote:Al, they must have a nice red glow at 5.5 V?

Cheers.... Rod

No, still quite dark. To get a glow on my set-up I need to go to about 8 volts (from memory, might only be 7). I get up into that region, and higher, every so often to clean the muck off the strip and so get a clean profile.

I bought some spare burner wires for a Young's burner and used them in a home made burner. From memory it took about 10 amps at 4 volts ( = 40 W) with a bench top DC power source to get them hot enough to do the job, not as hot as they show it on the 3 Rivers video though. I found that hot melted t...

I keep my mobile phone for family emergencies and that's about it. Most people who know me don't have the number. I do, though, spend WAY too much time on the computer. But then IT was what I did for 40 years at work. (Grahame - was that paper tape 8 channel or 5 channel?) I use the computer as a to...

I've got the same problem as Mick - really sweaty area under the leather armguard on hot days. I've been thinking of making one out of leather but with a lot of cut-outs so it looks more like the plastic one Mick's getting. Haven't go around to it yet though. Anyone have any experience using an armg...

Hi guys while we are on the subject of glues and while its not quite traditional plastic vanes and alloy and carbon shafts; always an issue; what works? Feathers seem to stick to anything OK but plastics and alloy AAAAAAAGHHHH!!! Cheers I found that Loctite 406 worked for me with plastic vanes and ...

I use 401 for feathers on woods, and used to use 406 for plastic vanes on aluminium/carbons. 406 works for feathers on woods, but I prefer the 401 as it sets faster and so allows me to fletch my arrows faster. Using two clamps, by the time I've put the next feather in the spare clamp, the one in the...

I have much the same problem, but shooting split finger. Hitting the nose doesn't seem to affect my arrow flight much, but it does hurt. No idea how to stop it happening - I just put a bit of tape on my nose to lessen the pain.

I've attached a manual for a BPE Pro - probably not too different from the base model.

A slight dynamic release. By that I mean that the release hand moves about 50mm - say from canine tooth to corner of jawbone.

I worked at a mine once where a foreman and another guy bought between them a 44 gal [200l] drum of plonk at a time.This guy often came to work looking like Norman Gunston, from trying to shave Have fun Gazza and Perry, 'cause I can get into enough trouble with a mere cask of red. Reminds me of bac...

Push-pull on my longbows. A stringer would just be something else than I can't find when I need it.

I've cut carbon shafts with a triangular jewelers' file and that seemed to work OK. For cutting aluminium I used a good quality pipe cutter. It didn't compress the shaft if taken slowly, but it did leave a small burr on the inside of the shaft. That was removed by reaming. Now it's woods all the way...

I remember them, but never used any of them. I didn't really start playing with wood until MDF was available - another one that's not real good for you.

PS - Dr Strangelove.

As a series "The Wire" from a few years ago. The first four series were the best I've seen for a long while. The fifth wasn't as good. Definitely not for the easily offended. All the movies that I'd recommend come from a LONG time ago. Anything in Kurosawa's samurai genre is good, but part...