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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Alpinbogen on July 12, 2011, 07:37:26 pm

Title: Shotgun
Post by: Alpinbogen on July 12, 2011, 07:37:26 pm: With recent temps in the 90s, I've had several bow projects riding shotgun with me to work. I park in a sunny spot and let them bake all day with the windows up. This is just the trick to drop the MC a few points after bringing them up recently from basement storage. My vehicle gets much hotter than my single bulb hot box and there's no electric bill. Anyone else taking advantage of solar drying this summer?

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Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by: aznboi3644 on July 12, 2011, 07:53:51 pm: I always keep a stave in my car drying lol.
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Post by: toomanyknots on July 12, 2011, 08:09:31 pm: Oh yeah, same here. Only thing is I got a van with take down back seats, so I got a whole lot of wooden friends ridin along with me. :) I do check for checks though, once I see one beginning even a little bit I take er right out.
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Post by: nugget on July 12, 2011, 08:10:44 pm: I have cured several staves by leaving them in a van with a blown engine.
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Post by: Badger on July 12, 2011, 09:29:44 pm: I have at least 20 bows baking in my car right now.
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Post by: LEGIONNAIRE on July 12, 2011, 09:36:17 pm: Ive got one too right now :D just put it out yesterday, ill probably leave it until friday.
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Post by: mullet on July 13, 2011, 12:12:45 am: I cook my lunch on the dashboard. ;) ;D
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Post by: peshikthe on July 13, 2011, 01:39:26 am: thats how i got my molle down to proper m/c and i just got it done before cloverdale, and yes it works very well, mine is a 89 chevy van.
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Post by: tetaxidermy on July 13, 2011, 06:36:49 am: Got some hickory cooking in the car right now.
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Post by: toomanyknots on July 13, 2011, 12:15:10 pm: " I cook my lunch on the dashboard."

HA! You know whats bad, is our windows don't roll down in our van, plus the ac don't work (never buy a car off craigslist, :) ), plus we don't have a garage so it just sits in the sun all day until I have to drive it. So I guess I cook myself in it too. God it is torture to drive.
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Post by: Stickboy on July 13, 2011, 05:35:12 pm: I'm glad you posted this thread -- I thought I was crazy for having a staff in the back of the car! Good to know I'm not the only one.
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Post by: osage outlaw on July 13, 2011, 09:54:31 pm: Did I miss Cloverdale??? >:( For some reason, I was thinking it was later in the year. I've been telling my son we would go again.

I put a roughed out hickory bow in my car today. I have been weighing it so I'm curious to see what it does.
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Post by: Eric Krewson on July 14, 2011, 11:47:43 am: I ruined several osage staves years ago by using a car as a heat box, never tried it again, built a drying box so I could control the heat.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by: ballista on July 14, 2011, 01:41:51 pm: Quote from: toomanyknots on July 13, 2011, 12:15:10 pm
" I cook my lunch on the dashboard."

HA! You know whats bad, is our windows don't roll down in our van, plus the ac don't work (never buy a car off craigslist, :) ), plus we don't have a garage so it just sits in the sun all day until I have to drive it. So I guess I cook myself in it too. God it is torture to drive.
haha yes! finally someone who knows! i got a 96 rodeo and the windows only go down about 20 percent of the time and occassionally if i hit a big bump in the road haha- sitting in 90 degree weather in a black rodeo with no ac and windows, honest to god whe its bad i open my door at the red lights haha
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Post by: dwardo on July 14, 2011, 02:48:22 pm: Not much chance of a stave checking in a car here (UK) if you blink you miss our summer!
Up here there is every chance of a chimp putting your window through and using the stave to pop the steering lock...
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Post by: gstoneberg on July 14, 2011, 03:11:25 pm: Funny this thread should come up now. I carpool with one of our testing technicians. His job yesterday was to instrument 2 cars, one in the indoor parking garage (his), and one in the outdoor parking lot. He recorded temperature, humidity and something else I can't remember for 24hrs. It was 103 degrees yesterday for the high. The garage vehicle stayed at the outside air temperature until he drove it to a dentist appointment. In the hour he was there the inside temp of the vehicle went up to 123 degrees. Returning to the indoor lot it got down to about 80 degrees with the A/C running. It quickly climbed back to 100 degrees and stayed there the rest of the day. Driving home he was able to get the temp down to a little under 70 degrees. In his garage the temp went back up to 100 and stayed there all night. Yikes.

More interesting to me was the car in the parking lot. She never moved it all day. It reached a max temp at 4pm of 183 degrees!! Wow! No wonder they say to keep your laminated bows unstrung in a car.

I've never seasoned a stave in the car.

George
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Post by: Michael C. on July 14, 2011, 06:46:52 pm: When I do that my car looks like a couple of teenagers have been in it out on lovers leap when I come out from work.