Reporting back....

Talk about a helpful guy... Bob at Ace was great.   I had missed his response (above),either because his and mine crossed in cyberspace or because the messages had gone to a page two and I missed that.   Anyway, I got the phone number off of the manual for the tester and called.   Not knowing about his reponse on-list, imagine my surprise when he says, "Hi, is this Dick in Seattle?  I've been expecting your call..."    To which I replied, intelligently, "Huh?"

Anyway, he went over the machine with me, testing several arrows while I was right there with a phone in my hand.   The machine is fine.   The problem is apparently a combination of operator timidity and atmospheric humidity.   Being a first batch of arrows, I guess I was looking for absolutes... to the ounce kind of stuff.   Bob reassured me that things are really OK, and I can proceed to keep doing what I'm doing and the arrows will keep going where they're going.

I want to thank all of you for your responses and help.  This is a great list and resource.

Dick in Seattle... who is going to go downstairs, turn the light off over the meter, and just shoot the silly arrows, which seem to go into the orange stick-on in spite of most things I do...

That's what you call customer service    ...Van

Carlos,


The deflections on the James Hill tester are deflections by calculation.  The formula is: 26\\(poundage)= shaft deflection.  According to this 26\\50 lb=.520 deflection.  Most testers will agree on this.  But not all testers agree that a specific deflection equal to  specific poundage.  For example 75 lb spine is .347 on an Adams tester, .354 on a Rothar, .346 according to calculation, and AMO spine charts are something else yet.  Like Bob Burton posted earlier "this isn't rocket science"        dino

Thanks Dino.

I'm pretty impressed with Bob at Ace taking such a personal interest in this case and helping Dick with his questions.  Gentlemen, and Ladies, that's a great example of excellent customer service and someone who cares.

Guy