[Konrad]

Breaking in bands (Pre-stretch)

In the interest of making the subject clearer with a better title, I will credit the original subject Band Warm Up? by Biker_Bob.

The best comment by treefork;
"Brand new never stretched latex needs to be pulled about ten times to break it in and loosen it up . Think of new latex balloons which are next to impossible to inflate by mouth unless pulled several times to soften the latex . After latex break in I think it's more our muscles that need to warm up before shots get on target than the latex warming up . "

This is a great tip that has helped a lot. Thankyou treefork and Biker Bob.

Band Warm Up?

I think I've noticed that bands take a few shots to warm up at the start of a session. Have I imagined that? Is it in fact me that's warming up at the start of a session? I was wondering if excercising the bands a few times (by stretching them out and letting them back a few times) might...

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Salutations.

 

[SteveJ]

thanks good topic

 

[ukj]

THX treefork and the repost.
Just makes sense.
I break in stretch before pouch attach and after AND after frame mounted,
not only for break in but to load test
connections.
ukj

 

[Konrad]

I can report that the improvement is immense. I heard about it in one of ATO75's video's. But didn't think much of it.
This will be a permanent primer with the slingshot rifle. Thankyou Treefork.

 

[Sandstorm]

You know this is something I knew about, but I’ll admit, haven’t ever done. Thinking about it now though I probably should. About the most I do is stretch to my anchor point after tying everything up to rule out immediate catastrophic failure. As I think someone also stated above.
Thanks guys for bringing this up though, because I’ll definitely put it into practice.