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Title: Help with hardpoint handle
Post by: Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach on April 13, 2009, 11:37:43 PM

Hi all.  I want to make my own handle and need a little help with some dimensions.  If anyone can fill them in I would appreciate it. H^^

Title: Re: Help with hardpoint handle
Post by: john e. holliday on April 14, 2009, 08:53:19 AM

Grab your old E-Z just and measure it.  Or better yet, contact Carl Shoupe and get a Fancher Handle kit.  Well worth the money.  The biggest factor I see is making the metal peices for the line clips.  DOC Holliday

Title: Re: Help with hardpoint handle
Post by: Dick Fowler on April 14, 2009, 09:21:23 AM

No real science here... JMBG  (Just my best guess)

Title: Re: Help with hardpoint handle
Post by: Bill Gruby on April 14, 2009, 09:58:11 AM

 Dick;

  Please check my math on this but I think the holes will be too close together at .11875 center to center. I get .0062 between the edges of the holes. .11875 - .11200 = .0062. Or am I wrong here. It would be better to drill all holes .125 and space them .1875. This would leave .0625 between the edges of the holes.

  "Billy G"

Title: Re: Help with hardpoint handle
Post by: Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach on April 14, 2009, 11:08:37 AM

I don't have an old E-Z-Just handle and I want to make my own not buy one.  If anyone has a hardpoint handle that they like, would it be possible to measure it and let me know the size, spacing and amount of holes?  Thank you. H^^

Title: Re: Help with hardpoint handle
Post by: Dick Fowler on April 14, 2009, 12:44:44 PM

Quote from: Bill Gruby on April 14, 2009, 09:58:11 AM

Dick;

  Please check my math on this but I think the holes will be too close together at .11875 center to center. I get .0062 between the edges of the holes. .11875 - .11200 = .0062. Or am I wrong here. It would be better to drill all holes .125 and space them .1875. This would leave .0625 between the edges of the holes.

  "Billy G"

Bill your math is correct. My thinking was that this alum. piece will be clamped between two pieces of wood and as such there should be little load on the holes.and that the closer the holes the finer the adjustment.

Title: Re: Help with hardpoint handle
Post by: Steve Helmick on April 14, 2009, 07:37:06 PM

Glenn...the holes in the (latest) TED Handles are about .070", and the clips used with it are bent from .055" stainless steel wire. The holes are spaced at about .125" apart, and the edge/cl is .125". I could get closer at work, but this is with dial calipeters (sic). There are 10 holes on each 'arm'. Sorry I couldn't answer your email last night, but that 3:45am tends to get in the way. One of these years, I won't be working anymore. I hope I'm still breathing when that happens.  y1  Steve

Title: Re: Help with hardpoint handle
Post by: Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach on April 14, 2009, 10:22:53 PM

Thank you Steve....exactly what I was looking for.