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Originally Posted by buzz lite beer  If the limbs had "flew off down the hall" the forces required to not only throw them there would obviously be immense but along with that they would have to continuously rattle to and fro in the limb pocket about the dovetail dowel to get out in the first place subjecting them to huge stresses in one particular area. Any limb made from any material would be lucky to survive without any internal structural damage occurring. |
So anybody who has had a string break at full draw COULD expect their limbs to break? How many people in that instance would put those limbs to one side, and buy another set?
As already said, my technical knowledge is sparse so forgive me....when you release the string , the arrow tip moves directly forward, not sideways , not rattling about.The string prevents the limb tip from moving upwards out of the limb pocket as its attached to the bottom limb, doing the same job there.
Without the string to restrict its forward movement, the limb tip will continue to travel at speed away from the riser.Whether the limbs leave the pockets is don to the depth of the pockets.As the limb leaves the pocket, its under very little stress sideways, most of it is backwards and forwards.
I say it again, my limb has broken across the thickest part, where the bolt is.I assume its the thickest part in order to deal with the stresses it suffers, and equally, I would have assumed that the weakest bit, and therefore the bit most likely to break, would be somewhere else.