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    For those of you that use a hanging weight system on your furling boards....would you mind sharing:

    How much weight?
    How you decide ?
    Do you furl to 10% or where?
    Do you furl to just before breakage?
    Do you furl to just pigtailing?

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    How much weight?
    I have 4 weights-2.25#, 1.5#, .75#, and .50#. For thread leaders and 6/0 Uni, I use the 2.25# weight. When I am furling 4# floro or 2# mono, I use the 2.25 and the 1.5# weights together.

    How did I decide?
    Trial and error. Not enough weight, too loose of a furl. Too much weight, a leader that will not "relax" when you take it off of the board, or breakage before the furl is completed. I try and keep detailed notes for the material used and the weight needed.

    Do you furl to just pigtailing?
    Yes, this is the goal for me.

    Here is a picture of my weight system on my current board...



    Remember, YMMV

    Brad

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    As i see your setup, tension on the leader legs is half of the weight you use? And your setup still uses the disk system?

    Karel

    Just a small clarification of the background of duckstermans question, we are trying to establish some kind of formula for the tension to use on your leader legs when twisting in a V setup. Ideally it would be something like a percentage of the theoretical breaking strength of your leader material. So the data we'd like to know are:
    - what material
    - how much strands in the tip section
    - how much weight
    - how much length reduction you get
    Last edited by karelgol; 10-16-2009 at 09:52 PM.

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    As every material has "0"(Zero) twist point, this is the desired end point for furling. It is perhaps defined best by stating that it is that point for a specific material beyond which further twisting will NOT occur, under proper tension (weight). If it is not under adequate tension, it will begin to pig tail. For a furled leader, it will be that point at which it will break before either pig tailing or twisting further. This will be that point with the tightest twist possible for the material.

    Using the info Karel mentions will be a big help in determining (calculating) what the appropriate weight is for any given material. Once it has been calculated, then it is a matter of doing an actual test, using that material and weight, to confirm the calculation.

    aged sage
    Last edited by aged_sage; 01-13-2011 at 11:49 PM.

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