<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">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.<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#4040ff>Atlantian Archery. Nothing exists within 100 yards without our permission.</FONT></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> John Atkins <cogworks@triad.rr.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> 'Fen & Michelle' <mobishob@yahoo.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, September 14, 2012 9:18 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: [Archers] PVC Pipe Bows<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=yiv154934230187500801-15092012><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial> 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. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us class=yiv154934230OutlookMessageHeader align=left><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org [mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Fen & Michelle<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 14, 2012 8:30 PM<BR><B>Cc:</B> archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Archers] PVC Pipe Bows<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>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 exercisin<VAR id=yiv154934230yui-ie-cursor></VAR>g "due diligence" protect us?</SPAN></DIV>
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