String Stretchin Hook / Pic
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String Stretchin Hook / Pic
I was crankin down on me string stretcher it has the 3/8 dia. hooks. Pow sounded like a dang gunshot goin off. I about peed in me pants & me string popped up in the air! I straightened out the hook. No use puttin in vise to close it back as its shot when it did that. So i went gotstid couple of 1/2 dia. hooks to play wid!
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Re: String Stretchin Hook / Pic
Good thing you didnt get hurt.
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Wow, you must have really been cranking that sucker up. What diameter hook were you using, I think mine is a 5/16 cloth line hook and mine never did that, but if yours was the same as mine I might get something larger also,
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Re: String Stretchin Hook / Pic
Make sure you get hardened steel!
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Re: String Stretchin Hook / Pic
Glad you didn't pee yer pants!!
I'll buy you a beer if you can do that to one of the half inch hooks.
I'll buy you a beer if you can do that to one of the half inch hooks.
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Re: String Stretchin Hook / Pic
I was usin a short combo wrench 9/16 talk about torque power!
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Re: String Stretchin Hook / Pic
WOW !!! Mike !!!!! was the torque in the wrench, or the person behind it, Glad the string didn't slap ya upside the head,vixenmaster wrote:I was usin a short combo wrench 9/16 talk about torque power!
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2010 Equinox/ Known as Doe Bow
Firebolts
Swhacker BH,s 125 grn
cheek pad /excell string
D-Bars
S-5,s
vixenmaster custom strings
Re: String Stretchin Hook / Pic
Yer "Strong Like Bull"
Hope ya was wearing some kinds safety glasses.
Hope ya was wearing some kinds safety glasses.
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Exocet 200 wth Leupold Crossbones, Munch mount
xcaliber FFF strings
VM FFF Strings
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Re: String Stretchin Hook / Pic
Upon reflection Mikey, if you bent those 3/8" hooks, you are over tightening the jig. That's a lot of metal to move...........
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LOL.
I use 1/2" eye bolts x 8". Just cut a bit of the loop out with a hack saw.
Those sucker are loud. I just about did the same the frist time.
I use 1/2" eye bolts x 8". Just cut a bit of the loop out with a hack saw.
Those sucker are loud. I just about did the same the frist time.
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Re: String Stretchin Hook / Pic
I built another stretchin jig rectangular usin 2x4's & it looks like they can hold up to 250 LBs I think i went over 175 lbs when i ruined that 3/8 dia hook. I found a light split in 2x4 today as i cranked down wid the 3/4" combo wrench. I bent both tubes on me brand new servin tool puttin Halo servin on some strings. So i got out me tight leather gloves Y when i pull servin i twist the string 2 wraps. I broke A majesty twice on another string yesterday. Dang lightweight material!awshucks wrote:Upon reflection Mikey, if you bent those 3/8" hooks, you are over tightening the jig. That's a lot of metal to move...........
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Re: String Stretchin Hook / Pic
Hey "HOSS" ya need to light'n up a bit, your getting too strong draging all those deer out,vixenmaster wrote:I built another stretchin jig rectangular usin 2x4's & it looks like they can hold up to 250 LBs I think i went over 175 lbs when i ruined that 3/8 dia hook. I found a light split in 2x4 today as i cranked down wid the 3/4" combo wrench. I bent both tubes on me brand new servin tool puttin Halo servin on some strings. So i got out me tight leather gloves Y when i pull servin i twist the string 2 wraps. I broke A majesty twice on another string yesterday. Dang lightweight material!awshucks wrote:Upon reflection Mikey, if you bent those 3/8" hooks, you are over tightening the jig. That's a lot of metal to move...........
Be safe in all you do! See ya in the woods!!!
2010 Equinox/ Known as Doe Bow
Firebolts
Swhacker BH,s 125 grn
cheek pad /excell string
D-Bars
S-5,s
vixenmaster custom strings
2010 Equinox/ Known as Doe Bow
Firebolts
Swhacker BH,s 125 grn
cheek pad /excell string
D-Bars
S-5,s
vixenmaster custom strings
Re: String Stretchin Hook / Pic
3/8" is all I use. Try straightening out the bend just before the hook and close the opening of the hook a bit.
You have lots more to learn and a few strings to break Mikie!
You have lots more to learn and a few strings to break Mikie!
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Re: String Stretchin Hook / Pic
I use my bow press as a string stretcher..i never dreamed i could bend it ..but i did ..those strings can go a long way before breaking..
Its not bent in these pics
Its not bent in these pics
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