"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
*(not sure, never actually tried one. Doesn't SOUND too dumb though)
I would have to disagree also with about everything that has been said on this topic. I'm running over 80 chase frames and over 40 newmans. The main thing to keep in mind when remeshing these frames is to have them super clean on the ends where you need to soften the corners. As for keeping the mesh straight when doing it, i've never ran into that problem period, you can see if its crooked or not. Another tip, if the locking rods that your using are old and chem. soaked toss them away...get new ones from eino...just like old locking strips from newmans...new ones have an are a lot easier to get in there they flex more when using the rolling tool...Aways use the rolling tool also...as for corners i dont like using the rolling tool to soften like in there video...I use a plastic ink scraping tool cut down to 2.5"...the easiest method that i've found is work on the locking rod closest to the mesh..i put the plastic piece right on that rod and rock back and forth and you can loosen that all day long...newmans are great dont get me wrong. I like em...lol same guy had a hand in designing them both...what i dont like about my newmans when your tighting the bolts every other one tightens in the direction that you loose tension...not true with chase...there reverse thread helps keep the tension there...I dont have near the mesh breaks in the corners like i do with newmans due to knicks and such...And to top it off i Paid $5 per frames when buying over 40 of them...that makes me like em even more! unlike the $20 i pay for newmans...just my two cents worth...
Quote from: hoogie on April 02, 2014, 07:44:45 AMI would have to disagree also with about everything that has been said on this topic. I'm running over 80 chase frames and over 40 newmans. The main thing to keep in mind when remeshing these frames is to have them super clean on the ends where you need to soften the corners. As for keeping the mesh straight when doing it, i've never ran into that problem period, you can see if its crooked or not. Another tip, if the locking rods that your using are old and chem. soaked toss them away...get new ones from eino...just like old locking strips from newmans...new ones have an are a lot easier to get in there they flex more when using the rolling tool...Aways use the rolling tool also...as for corners i dont like using the rolling tool to soften like in there video...I use a plastic ink scraping tool cut down to 2.5"...the easiest method that i've found is work on the locking rod closest to the mesh..i put the plastic piece right on that rod and rock back and forth and you can loosen that all day long...newmans are great dont get me wrong. I like em...lol same guy had a hand in designing them both...what i dont like about my newmans when your tighting the bolts every other one tightens in the direction that you loose tension...not true with chase...there reverse thread helps keep the tension there...I dont have near the mesh breaks in the corners like i do with newmans due to knicks and such...And to top it off i Paid $5 per frames when buying over 40 of them...that makes me like em even more! unlike the $20 i pay for newmans...just my two cents worth...After spending more time with the frame yesterday I'd like to know how you insure that the mesh is in straight? I got lucky and got one pretty straight but nowhere near as straight as on a newman. So many times when I put the bars in the channel the mesh did not load consistently down the channel and sometimes it was downright awful. I felt like if I had one or two more hands I could deal with it better but last time I checked I only have two arms and three legs .