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My rest activation cord on Hamskea keeps creeping just enough to bug me and not have my rest raise and lower precisely at where I want in the draw cycle. It's because I have a Bowtech, and the limbs on those hardly move. So, you have to put the cord at the very limb tip and it has to be pretty tight.
Well, BCY 24 polyester d loop doesn't like being under 10 or 20 lbs of pressure at all times. It creeps just a little, but this has a larger than you'd think effect on rest drop timing.
So, I decided to go with the king of no creep fibers, vectran. But I wanted a covered rope for abrasion resistance and so knots and cord locks don't slip on a slick UHMW type fiber (vectran). I found what might be the perfect stuff: it's for sailing and from Marlow. It's 2 mm diameter with vectran core and polyester cover. Vectran is what they put in BCY 452 and 454 to keep it low creep, but it is also what gets fuzzy on these strings over time (a reason I want it covered).
But now I'm worried that the vectran might not creep....but the cover might slip.
Anyone have experience on this type of rope, where the cover and core can totally separate, and any ideas on how to keep it zero creep? Or is this even an issue in use?
I'm thinking:
1. tie it to my bow press and expand the press arms to stretch it and leave over night, this should stretch the cover to the vectran
2. release tension, tie knots on the ends of the piece I'm going to use (3 foot section?) and then tie back to the press but to the sides of the knots (overhand knots visible each side of press right interior to fingers, so you are tightening knots and cord), tighten and leave overnight to stretch, this will tighten my knots and hopefully lock everything together as a unit
3. attach to my rest with the overhand knots intact to keep the cover and core together, remove the extra knots after I'm happy with it (if I start with too long of a piece,then those overhand knots will be dangling on my tag ends and I'll just snip them off and then finish my ends with maybe an overhand knot and then melt or glue the ends to keep from fraying (don't know if vectran melts good)
Well, BCY 24 polyester d loop doesn't like being under 10 or 20 lbs of pressure at all times. It creeps just a little, but this has a larger than you'd think effect on rest drop timing.
So, I decided to go with the king of no creep fibers, vectran. But I wanted a covered rope for abrasion resistance and so knots and cord locks don't slip on a slick UHMW type fiber (vectran). I found what might be the perfect stuff: it's for sailing and from Marlow. It's 2 mm diameter with vectran core and polyester cover. Vectran is what they put in BCY 452 and 454 to keep it low creep, but it is also what gets fuzzy on these strings over time (a reason I want it covered).
But now I'm worried that the vectran might not creep....but the cover might slip.
Anyone have experience on this type of rope, where the cover and core can totally separate, and any ideas on how to keep it zero creep? Or is this even an issue in use?
I'm thinking:
1. tie it to my bow press and expand the press arms to stretch it and leave over night, this should stretch the cover to the vectran
2. release tension, tie knots on the ends of the piece I'm going to use (3 foot section?) and then tie back to the press but to the sides of the knots (overhand knots visible each side of press right interior to fingers, so you are tightening knots and cord), tighten and leave overnight to stretch, this will tighten my knots and hopefully lock everything together as a unit
3. attach to my rest with the overhand knots intact to keep the cover and core together, remove the extra knots after I'm happy with it (if I start with too long of a piece,then those overhand knots will be dangling on my tag ends and I'll just snip them off and then finish my ends with maybe an overhand knot and then melt or glue the ends to keep from fraying (don't know if vectran melts good)
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