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01-28-2002, 12:36 PM
#3
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Erie PA USA
Posts: 439
RE: twists in cable and string
Are you sure it's not twisting (to shorten) string = lower poundage/shorten drawlength and twisting (to shorten) cables = higher poundage/longer drawlength? As the bowstring stretches it increases in weight and as the cables stretch it decreases in weight.
01-28-2002, 06:53 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New Stanton PA USA
Posts: 2,213
RE: twists in cable and string
chdeerbio, you might want to mark your limb bolts. My guess would be that your limb bolts backed out. I have never heard of a bow losing poundage with age. Buss cables have very little loaded tension in comparison with your main string. If you lost poundage, I would bet on the limb bolts backing out.
01-28-2002, 09:03 PM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Erie PA USA
Posts: 439
RE: twists in cable and string
Siskyou, you had me wondering and I had to look it up to make sure, I also did this and it was to a moderator (sorry PA) and got myself set straight by Tribalscream. Oh well.
Chdeerbio, about the only way to know for sure is to measure them up to see if they have stretched. Only problem is you will need to know what length they actually were and not what the sticker says. I've seen fastflight stretch quite a bit but twisting the cable up may get you back to where you need to be. Big Country may be right about the limb bolts loosening. I've had them turn out too.
Chdeerbio, about the only way to know for sure is to measure them up to see if they have stretched. Only problem is you will need to know what length they actually were and not what the sticker says. I've seen fastflight stretch quite a bit but twisting the cable up may get you back to where you need to be. Big Country may be right about the limb bolts loosening. I've had them turn out too.
01-29-2002, 03:49 AM
#9
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: jax beach Florida USA
Posts: 216
RE: twists in cable and string
I've heard that with the technological advances in the last ten years to strings and cables, we shouldn't be twisting them because they wear out faster. I was also told the proper way to adjust your bow was to loosen or tighten your limb bolts.
My bow was set at 64 lbs. at the factory and I'm up to 72 now, and I tightened my limb bolts to do it. Didn't have to take my string off or anything, just put a wrench on it and turned both bolts the same amount, then drew the string back and made sure both cams stopped at the same time.
It was easy!
My bow was set at 64 lbs. at the factory and I'm up to 72 now, and I tightened my limb bolts to do it. Didn't have to take my string off or anything, just put a wrench on it and turned both bolts the same amount, then drew the string back and made sure both cams stopped at the same time.
It was easy!
01-29-2002, 06:42 AM
#10
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Erie PA USA
Posts: 439
RE: twists in cable and string
I think the adjusting weight by the limb bolts is different then what was being asked, but I could be wrong. Last I've seen the companies and string manufacturers are telling you to have twists in your string. I believe it is something like one twist per two inches length. Prolongs the string life by making it stronger, lessens the amount of string twist and allows adjustability for putting cams in time.
Edited by - IroquoisArcher on 01/29/2002 07:46:47
Edited by - IroquoisArcher on 01/29/2002 07:46:47