Checking Arrow Clearance

[Huffy]

In many of the tuning manuals the advice to use foot power is given. What brands of foot power available in the U.K. are suitable? Are there other methods that are more suitable Thanks in advance for any answers

Mark

[Armchair Archer]

I think you mean DRY foot powder.</p>

One I know of is called Daktarin and is available from any chemist, works pretty good on athletes foot too !!</p>

Other manuals advocate the use of a dry anti-perspirant deoderant, like 'Sure'. Any of the one's that leave a nasty white mark on the inside of your clothing will do and your arrows will smell nice too !!</p>

The idea behind it is that any point of contact will show up as a scrape in the powder like substance of the above, although you only need to spray from the nock (not the nock) down to an inch below the fletchings</p>

[Tobytoolbag]

I'm also told that putting lipstick on the riser is also a good method of checking for clearance problems...

And that's the reason why I've pinched the girlfriend's 'lippy' and keep it in my archery case - honest!!!

[cliveanne]

Huffy - 27/5/2005 6:30 PM



In many of the tuning manuals the advice to use foot power is given. What brands of foot power available in the U.K. are suitable? Are there other methods that are more suitable Thanks in advance for any answers

Mark

I used to use talc that I had for Christmas cheep & cheerful , it is also good to sprinkle some on your finger tab, it gives a smoother "Loose".
I don't use talc on me, it dries me up

[Murray]

Yep, Daktarin is what I use... leave it for a minute or so after application and it dries to a fine white skin.
Not very good on white fletchings or white bow though!

[geoffw]

i use a red white board marker it works fine

[rohenwto]

Originally Posted by Huffy

In many of the tuning manuals the advice to use foot power is given. What brands of foot power available in the U.K. are suitable? Are there other methods that are more suitable Thanks in advance for any answers

Mark

I prefer a thin wall of plasticine on the bow window, powder only indicates if you have contact or not. Plasticine shows path of each fletching and how much of a clearance issue there is or how close to a clearance problem you may be.

[Cimbian]

A bit of lippy on plastic vanes works great...

[Duss]

Since I use a Beiter arrow rest, I find it easier to put some lipstick on the rest. It uses less lipstick and it is less messy.

[grimsby archer]

be careful with the spray foot powder.
at a coach training session recently, the subject was arrow clearance. Liberal amounts of foot poweder were applied to the bow (causing one senior coach to retire hastily as the spray affected his respiration)
The bow was expected to show clearance problems, but when arrows were shot, there was no sign. The test was to be repeated so the candidate went to "wipe" off the foot powder residue. It virtually took a chisel and sandblasting to get the residue off. No surprise that the fletchings didnt leave a trail.