Digital manufacturing and today's bowhunters

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Shadowhntr
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Re: Digital manufacturing and today's bowhunters

#16 Post by Shadowhntr »

Thanks for clearing that up. 8-)

The longbow drop away rest was a bad joke..lol :D
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Ron Kulas
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Re: Digital manufacturing and today's bowhunters

#17 Post by Ron Kulas »

No worries.
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#18 Post by Ron Kulas »

A little long distance testing of our 3D printed AAF (annular Airfoil Fletching) (for compound users.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJFB9sqp-7I
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Re: Digital manufacturing and today's bowhunters

#19 Post by Ron Kulas »

We have a family friend that has a degenerative disorder that has resulted in her having to spend the bulk of her time in a motorized wheel chair. She is able to get out of it only to use the restroom. She can use the chair to get upright and then use a walker to transfer herself to the toilet. Sadly she is unable to bend over to reach the foot pads to swing them up and out of the way. She asked if we could design her an aid to allow her to reach the foot pads to lift them out of the way. Right now she must have a family member at home with her to lift the foot pads for her.

The criteria were that the aid has to have a large handle so she could grip it, it has to reach 24” but be able to be compressed into a smaller footprint to allow it to be stored in a bag attached to the chair and it had to be light weight. We began the project Friday night and completed it on Sunday morning so we were able to turn it around in less than 48 hours.

We were happy to help and to find another use for the 3D printer and to allow her to regain more independence. The final product weighed only 13 Oz.

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Re: Digital manufacturing and today's bowhunters

#20 Post by Captainkirk »

Cool beans! Nicely done, Ron!
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Ron Kulas
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Re: Digital manufacturing and today's bowhunters

#21 Post by Ron Kulas »

More AAF testing This time at 80 and 90 yards. 90 yards is really a poke for my ability as I don't practice or hunt at that distance and don't have a pin for 90.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDlNQgND49A
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Re: Digital manufacturing and today's bowhunters

#22 Post by Ron Kulas »

Just playing around with the 3D printer again. We modeled up the parts for a Carabiner with our logo.

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Re: Digital manufacturing and today's bowhunters

#23 Post by Ron Kulas »

Now dressing AA batteries in C sized outfits so they can be used in trail cams that take C batteries.

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Re: Digital manufacturing and today's bowhunters

#24 Post by Cookies »

Now that's a smooth move! I'd buy that!

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#25 Post by Captainkirk »

What is the advantage?

The C cells have more than double the A/H life over a AA cell. See:
http://www.zbattery.com/zbattery/batteryinfo.html

Seems you would have to change batteries 3X as often!
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