String Stretchin Hook / Pic

vixenmaster · Post by **vixenmaster** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:38 pm

I was crankin down on me string stretcher it has the 3/8 dia. hooks. Pow sounded like a dang gunshot goin off. I about peed in me pants & me string popped up in the air! I straightened out the hook. No use puttin in vise to close it back as its shot when it did that. So i went gotstid couple of 1/2 dia. hooks to play wid!

onebigskittle · Post by **onebigskittle** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:47 pm

Good thing you didnt get hurt.

Bullzeye · Post by **Bullzeye** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:12 pm

Wow, you must have really been cranking that sucker up. What diameter hook were you using, I think mine is a 5/16 cloth line hook and mine never did that, but if yours was the same as mine I might get something larger also,

awshucks · Post by **awshucks** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:06 am

use 'neverseize' on the threads of new hooks..........

Ont_Excal · Post by **Ont_Excal** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:14 am

Make sure you get hardened steel!

j.krug · Post by **j.krug** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:16 pm

Glad you didn't pee yer pants!!

I'll buy you a beer if you can do that to one of the half inch hooks.

vixenmaster · Post by **vixenmaster** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:47 am

I was usin a short combo wrench 9/16 talk about torque power!

papa bear1 · Post by **papa bear1** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:01 pm

vixenmaster wrote:I was usin a short combo wrench 9/16 talk about torque power!

WOW !!! Mike !!!!! was the torque in the wrench, or the person behind it,

Glad the string didn't slap ya upside the head,

Dave

Oppie · Post by **Oppie** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:23 pm

Yer "Strong Like Bull"

Hope ya was wearing some kinds safety glasses.

awshucks · Post by **awshucks** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:47 pm

Upon reflection Mikey, if you bent those 3/8" hooks, you are over tightening the jig. That's a lot of metal to move...........

hikerman · Post by **hikerman** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:26 pm

LOL.

I use 1/2" eye bolts x 8". Just cut a bit of the loop out with a hack saw.

Those sucker are loud. I just about did the same the frist time.

vixenmaster · Post by **vixenmaster** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:53 pm

awshucks wrote:Upon reflection Mikey, if you bent those 3/8" hooks, you are over tightening the jig. That's a lot of metal to move...........

I built another stretchin jig rectangular usin 2x4's & it looks like they can hold up to 250 LBs I think i went over 175 lbs when i ruined that 3/8 dia hook. I found a light split in 2x4 today as i cranked down wid the 3/4" combo wrench. I bent both tubes on me brand new servin tool puttin Halo servin on some strings. So i got out me tight leather gloves Y when i pull servin i twist the string 2 wraps. I broke A majesty twice on another string yesterday. Dang lightweight material!

papa bear1 · Post by **papa bear1** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:44 am

vixenmaster wrote:
awshucks wrote:Upon reflection Mikey, if you bent those 3/8" hooks, you are over tightening the jig. That's a lot of metal to move...........
I built another stretchin jig rectangular usin 2x4's & it looks like they can hold up to 250 LBs I think i went over 175 lbs when i ruined that 3/8 dia hook. I found a light split in 2x4 today as i cranked down wid the 3/4" combo wrench. I bent both tubes on me brand new servin tool puttin Halo servin on some strings. So i got out me tight leather gloves Y when i pull servin i twist the string 2 wraps. I broke A majesty twice on another string yesterday. Dang lightweight material!

Hey "HOSS" ya need to light'n up a bit,

your getting too strong draging all those deer out,

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:53 am

3/8" is all I use. Try straightening out the bend just before the hook and close the opening of the hook a bit.
You have lots more to learn and a few strings to break Mikie!

strum · Post by **strum** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 5:12 pm

I use my bow press as a string stretcher..i never dreamed i could bend it ..but i did ..those strings can go a long way before breaking..
Its not bent in these pics

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