ESSX SLIDE SHOW

[Bruce Caldwell]

Bring your POP CORN
Vaulters on ESSX
Earl Bell
A great shot of Jan's daughter inverted
Pics of the our landing system
Pole making equipment
What a sail piece looks like.
OK compared to NEO Vault this one is Boring but informative GRIN
ENJoy

Bruce

http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/essxsp ... CS&.src=ph

[KentStatePV]

Man, that blue and gold colored ESSX landing system would look great in our fieldhouse! Very nice slideshow.[/b]

[jhesch]

very nice slideshow. haven't yet seen any at neovault, maybe i'll check 'em out. its nice to see behind the scenes, take a look at how stuff works, is made, etc. much appreciated.
quick question. is the sail piece extra, shaped fiberglass or a seperate material? the picture either right before or right after the 'sample sail design' looked as though a pole without wrapping was getting a sail that looked like butcher paper or cloth rolled on it, but poles ive seen without wrapping have no such look which lead me to believe its a part of the glass?? perhaps inside the pole? whoever can explain it id appreciate it.

[Bruce Caldwell]

If you have not seen the NEO vault you have to buy it, the excitment and action is great for the vaulting mind
YES in some cases, depending on the make up of the total pattern, a pole can have the body piece and the sail piece all in one matrix. If the stiffness of that pattern calls for a load support of the same weave of material.

If the body and the sail are both E glass or S glass this can be done.
With wider matrix sections rolling must align the fiber through the whole procedure. Any piece if not aligned can twist, as the poles are prepared fro the fusion process.

We had a pole for Irie Hill England’s premier vaulter the other day, that when we used a pattern made a year ago the pole under today’s process came out stiffer than before. To get her the size pole she needed were we used all S glass before we had to make one of the matrix pieces E glass to produce a lighter stiffness pole (Note: same pattern as before for consistency).

This is further proof of why we say you cannot set a flex number to a weight rating. The very same pattern of one pole made a year ago, as compared to one today had changes in types of glass to arrive at the same safe load and flex.

We attribute this increase in stiffness anomaly with the improvements we have made in the fusion process of our system.

Yes, an adjustment in the time, the temperature, and the cycle process has yielded stiffer vaulting poles with the same amount of glass.
Results lighter poles.

Jody we extend an open invite for you to visit our factory when in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.