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Arsenal Platform

Fl Canopy Stalker said:
Do you wear a saddle and use ropes? If so, you trust plastic to hold your weight in a tree :sweatsmile: as nylon and polyester are thermoplastics
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It’s not an injection molded plastic platform or sticks. Even when using my carbon pros I was deathly afraid of dropping one. After several weeks of testing them I took them apart and they had stress fractures around the screw holes. Injection molding? I have less trust in…
 
enkriss said:
It’s not an injection molded plastic platform or sticks. Even when using my carbon pros I was deathly afraid of dropping one. After several weeks of testing them I took them apart and they had stress fractures around the screw holes. Injection molding? I have less trust in…
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That makes sense. Honestly I was just giving you a hard time because you specified plastics :sweatsmile: of course keeping in mind that not all plastics are created equally
 
enkriss said:
It’s not an injection molded plastic platform or sticks. Even when using my carbon pros I was deathly afraid of dropping one. After several weeks of testing them I took them apart and they had stress fractures around the screw holes. Injection molding? I have less trust in…
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Yep you're right,, every hole in Carbon fiber that holds a bolt should have a brass, steel or aluminum bushing.....
 
Samcirrus said:
There will be a major weight saving for anyone wanting a much larger platform. But everything has a price...
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Really? Tethrd was estimating 3 lbs for the Vader. They said the Vader is the same size as the Predator XL - 15 1/2" x 12 3/4". The Arsenal Magnum is 15 3/4" x 11 1/4" and is 3.29 lbs (going off of @enkriss scale). That's not major.
 
skyjacker said:
Really? Tethrd was estimating 3 lbs for the Vader. They said the Vader is the same size as the Predator XL - 15 1/2" x 12 3/4". The Arsenal Magnum is 15 3/4" x 11 1/4" and is 3.29 lbs (going off of @enkriss scale). That's not major.
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Yes, you are right, the word 'major' is hyperbole... without teasing or hyping up I simply hope, yet am also confident we will have some weight savings larger than that...along with other improvements.
 
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