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Predator Platform broke on me last night

blatallic said:
Did you place a rubber cover on the bolt? I added stealth strip on the post but I like this idea.
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Predator Leveling Screw Fix

I know a lot of folks are adding material of one sort or another to the post on their Predator platform to quiet the leveling screw when it contacts the post. What I chose to do was replace the button head screw with a modified De-Sta-Co spindle (that's what they call their screw). Starting with...
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Dewey said:
New standoff is on it’s way. :)
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Three business days and my new standoff was in my mailbox. Very quick turnaround by Tethrd. Hopefully I just had a bad one before but gonna be a little more careful with the new one just in case.
 
DelaWhere_Arrow said:
Oh, JFC.
Here we go.
Thank you for sharing. I’ll be watching, or just switch to my Lone Wolf batwing like I have been considering.
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I ordered the batwing and it came in like 2 days, put it on last night. Won't get a chance to try it out until Friday but I wasn't a fan of how the stock one grabbed trees. Should work out great with the LW offset.
 
I am pretty sure that you want some play in the standoff so it can adjust to the tree. I cant speak for the broken ones, but if the owners cranked it down to tighten it up that would cause it to snap when it should be adjusting to the tree.
 
iamcorey said:
Are you saying some play between the standoff and the post? Does the bolt need to be checked to make sure its not on too tight?
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Mine moves on its own. I am not sure but if the nut is a nylon nut, as long as the threads are past the nylon it wont come undone. I do not think you need to back it off. I never touched mine
 
Jefferson10940 said:
Mine moves on its own. I am not sure but if the nut is a nylon nut, as long as the threads are past the nylon it wont come undone. I do not think you need to back it off. I never touched mine
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Just curious, did they come assembled?
 
Bigterp said:
I sold my gen 1 quite awhile ago & cant recall but the standoff appears to be cast aluminum as well. Is that correct?? If so that’s an easy remedy. Can’t think of any other mfrs that have a cast v bracket though.......
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This has me thinking.. It looks like the Versa button is cast as well. Will that be the nest thing to go? Seems like putting bolts and non cast items would be a better option imo. Would drilling a hole through the cast to accept a grade 8 bolt for the versa button be better than what it currently has?
 
I think they probably are, but some users may see it move and think that cranking it down is a good idea. I am saying I do not "think" it is meant to be super tight. But that is just me thinking the give of the bracket is a good thing. I am in no way speaking for the company
 
Jefferson10940 said:
I think they probably are, but some users may see it move and think that cranking it down is a good idea. I am saying I do not "think" it is meant to be super tight. But that is just me thinking the give of the bracket is a good thing. I am in no way speaking for the company
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I hear ya, 100%. Just curiosity on it all-Thinking being, if there are specific tolerances they used during their testing, they would need to be the same upon assembly for the delivered product.
 
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