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Old 11-05-08, 05:55 PM
Cimbian Cimbian is offline
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Riser: Winact
Limbs: Winex
Sight: Summit
Stabilisers: W&W HMC
Button: Shibuya DX
Bow String: TS-Plus
Arrows: 3L-18, FlexFletch

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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Bognor Regis, UK
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Tollgate, Fletch-tite platinum and a cheap digital timer.

A bottle of isopropyl is a good investment. Mine was a fiver from the local chemist three years ago.

Clean all your shafts and don't touch the fletch-area again.

Get into a sequence (hey, this is archery).

Clean the fletch whilst in the clamp using above and a cotton bud, apply glue, fit the fletch, press start on the timer and go back after FOUR minutes.

When it beeps, remove the clamp, clean the clamp with a scalpel, insert ext fletch and clean the base as above. THEN check the last fletch and clean up excess with a fingernail or matchstick, put the arrow back in the jig and rotate tot he next position, meanwhile the alcohol on the van has dried and is ready for glue.

In the last month I have fletched five dozen ACCs this way with no problem.

Use the four minutes to clean up the previous arrow, put the kettle on, row with the spouse etc.

Fletch-tite platinum will last you ages, you only need a little or you'll spend an age cleaning-up.

Another useful bit of kit is a table-clamp vice (one with a ball-joint for angle). This is much more useful than the angled mouning plate that you can buy for the tollgate.

Superglue and all other cyanoacrylates are useful when at the field but do not use it on a vane that has been cleaned with isopropyl... the glue goes very brittle.

All this is IMHO, of course.
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