[Archers] PVC Pipe Bows

[Fen & Michelle]

Goggle "PVC pipe injuries". It appears that when a PVC pipe filled with compressed air explodes, it sends jagged plastic splinters in a 360 arc. Several searches return injuries to hands and eyes. Granted, compressed air is not the same stress on the material as a spanned bow, but I advise testing to destruction, preferably from behind the safety of a wall.
 
Fen 

Atlantian Archery. Nothing exists within 100 yards without our permission.
 


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From: John Atkins <cogworks at triad.rr.com>
To: 'Fen & Michelle' <mobishob at yahoo.com> 
Cc: archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org 
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 9:18 PM
Subject: RE: [Archers] PVC Pipe Bows

 
 Having worked to a great extent with PVC piping I can tell you that one year in the sun and it becomes very brittle.  However when a bow breaks during full draw arrows do NOT fly off at 90 degrees or do any of the stupid things stupid marshals think they will.  They simply fall at your feet as the bow now has no power to deliver to the shaft.  It becomes a product of physics and mechanics.  
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>From: archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org [mailto:archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Fen & Michelle
>Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 8:30 PM
>Cc: archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
>Subject: Re: [Archers] PVC Pipe Bows
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>What are the legal/insurance ramifications if we inspect and pass a non-standard bow type and it fails on the range and injures someone?  Does merely exercising "due diligence" protect us?
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>Cheers
>Fen
>
>Atlantian Archery. Nothing exists within 100 yards without our permission.
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