Fencing Skills - Rewiring an Epee
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- In this video the process of rewiring an epee is shown. if you break a wire the blade is still usable, you must only rewire it.
to do this there are eight small steps:
1. Strip all of the glue from the blade. This is most important, as any residual glue will mean that the new glue will not bond directly to the blade and you will find that you need to carry out another rewire very soon! In this video I use a dremel tool, this ensures that all glue is striped from the blade. if you do not have a dremel tool, you have the option of using a standard kitchen blowtorch to burn the glue away, in this situation you should follow the blow torching step with a sanding step to ensure any burned carbon is not left on the blade.
2. The next step is to screw on the barrel. make sure that the internal walls of the barrel are smooth. this is paramount to ensuring the tip slides smoothly into place when the blade is complete. ensure that the barrel is tightened fully at this point as you do not want it to ever loosen.
3. Straightening out the blade wires this step is necessary, all blade wires come in a coiled form, and straightening out the wire ensuring there are no kinks should be done slowly and precisely so that there is no chance of breaking the wires.
4. Feeding the wire into the barrel. this should be done carefully, this step is where you have the biggest chance of breaking your wire, so do it slowly and take care to push the contacts into place rather than using the wire to pull them down into the barrel.
5. lining up the wires and wrapping them at the end of the blade. make sure the wires are in the groove of the epee, and taught. when taught tape the wires in place, this will allow the wires a little more movement when the blade is bent, however be tight enough to stay low in the groove.
6. Inserting a piece of plastic into the tang of the blade. This is an added step which i like as it stops the glue running too far down the tang. I use a Qtip that has been cut to size for this (keep the other half of the Qtip as it will be used later
7. Bending the blade. this step is important as if ensures the wires are held down in the blade and that when the blade is bent the wire does not undergo any undue stress which may cause it to break while fencing.
8. gluing the blade. You will need to source a mildly runny glue which works well on metals. I like to dab a small dot of glue at 1 inch intervals (i have worked out that this is about the extent to which the quantity of glue flows). once i have covered the blade i then go back with the Qtip and spread any excess glue up and down the blade. this ensures that the glue is spread evenly. Points to watch here are that there is not too much glue around the barrel or the tang. if there is too much glue around the barrel it could seep around the contacts and act as an insulator, in this case you may loose a connection. if there is too much glue around the tang it may run down past the plastic you have inserted and cause difficulty in taking out the plastic as well as gluing the wire too far down the tang which will cause difficulty in building the blade.
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A video like this was well overdue!
Fantastic video. Long needed.
thanks!!!! saw some usefull tricks looks like new! in stead of the door we use a wooden block plus a rope
I always put the glue into the blade and wait 3 minutes before I line in the wires. So I have an additional isolation between the wires and the blade, because sometimes the textile isolation of the wires is insufficient. And it sticks the wires better in its position.
After that I twirl the wire from back of the tang towards the blade so the wire holds itself in position.
For bending the blade I use a a cord with a narrow loop on one end and small hook on the other end. I put the loop over the tang then bend the blade and hook the hook into the barrel. The blade then looks like a bow with the cord as its string and I can put it anywhere for drying over night. No risk of anyone opening the door and accidentally tearing down the bended blade.
What kind of glue you use?
I'd be VERY careful of using a fibreglass wheel to clean the groove...that will actually cut through the steel.
A diamond wheel does the cleaning job just fine and does not cut through the blade.
There are also a lot of things missing from the vid. It's generally good, but you skip over a number of things like leveling the contacts, bending the blade backwards to look for popouts, properly stripping the wire for assembly, etc.
I've lost count of how many foils and epees I've rewired over the years....when yo do as many as I do, you learn things.
You must be used BSI Adhesives BSI-120 and BSI-151
Or bend the blade using a chain instead of the door frame.