stringing rope sleeve

fredbeer · Post by **fredbeer** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:01 pm

The plastic sleeve on my stringing rope is getting chewed up by the claw hooks. Anyone just remove it and use the bare rope?

roly · Post by **roly** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:30 pm

Yuup, or just push it to the side.

vixenmaster · Post by **vixenmaster** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:30 pm

I have & it chews up the rope a lil slower

strum · Post by **strum** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:00 pm

fredbeer wrote:The plastic sleeve on my stringing rope is getting chewed up by the claw hooks. Anyone just remove it and use the bare rope?

took mine off and put serving on it..no problems since..

Dereck · Post by **Dereck** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:38 am

Send me your address and I will send you a replacement that will last a very long time

Gamikatsu · Post by **Gamikatsu** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:02 am

Being active duty military, i have a near endless supply of 550 paracord. i take a section, tie a few loops in the end, no serving and use it away... when it starts to show wear due to no serving, i toss it and tie a new one... my bow was used and didn't come with a stringing aid....

Perforator · Post by **Perforator** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:53 am

Shouldn't that be an indicator that you have some rough edges that could use some touching up with fine sandpaper?

Dereck · Post by **Dereck** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:08 am

Perforator wrote:Shouldn't that be an indicator that you have some rough edges that could use some touching up with fine sandpaper?

Not neccessarily the sleeve is soft as far as plastic goes and do wear very quickly due to the pressure of the claw

But cleaning up the claw will help your serving life

bob1961 · Post by **bob1961** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:15 pm

i took that sleeve off as soon as i seen it wareing out and have no troubles with just the string....i'm even going to replace that string with the rope i sell for the cocker rope

........bob

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miller1buc · Post by **miller1buc** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:03 pm

I cut the sleeve off as soon as I pulled it out of the pack due to the advice I had seen on here from others. Bare string has been working perfect for me so far with no wear that I can see.

awshucks · Post by **awshucks** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:52 am

miller1buc wrote:I cut the sleeve off as soon as I pulled it out of the pack due to the advice I had seen on here from others. Bare string has been working perfect for me so far with no wear that I can see.

X2......

fredbeer · Post by **fredbeer** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:50 pm

Thanks for the help everyone. I have polished the hooks with fine sandpaper per Boo's tutorial. Guess I'll use the original, minus the sleeve, until it shows wear then use one from Dereck, thanks Dereck. Never thought of paracord, might try it down the road.

Cossack · Post by **Cossack** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:15 am

I too serve mine with inexpensive serving material.

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