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ihab said:

Can I ask what type of Dyneema do you use and where to get it.


Cheers,
Ihab

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I'd like to get some too, thin stuff to work with Rob Allen grooved spears, and possibly some thick Dyneema for loops to go in the toggles. Nearest source of genuine RA dyneema I have found is Bulgaria & shipping is prohibitive. Would prefer to buy something from UK (failing that maybe USA/Fr/It). Wondering if eBay might offer something suitable?

(The hot water idea sounds good to me too).

The Spectra I use for wishbones is 3 mm Spectraspeed. It has Spectra filaments in a dacron sheath, and is made by Marlow, a British company. The guy I get it from is Masahiro Mori (morifish@aol.com) in Montebello, California. He makes and sells all sorts of spearfishing equipment, and became a Marlow dealer simply so he could offer this line for use on reels. The company makes it in 2 mm and 3 mm thicknesses, but he got them to make him a special run of 2.5 mm as a compromise between ease in handling and reel capacity.

For those of you in Europe or the Middle East, a British source might make more sense.

ILDiver said:

...I need to find whipping twine to see if it works better for tying the constrictor knots.

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Got mine from a chandler/rope maker, included it free when I bought some rope & bungee. A local canal boat chandler also tries to sell it at 10x what it is worth ($9).

Søren said:

... Second - what do you mean "prohibitive"? Like taxes or something? I just got a gun from them and the procedure was like any other euro country except cheaper

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No tax issue, minimum shipping charge to UK was something like 22 euro (or was it pounds?!). Crazy. The US Mail does a much better job shipping across their larger continent than european shippers and mail services, and MUCH MUCH CHEAPER.

Bill McIntyre said:

The Spectra I use for wishbones is 3 mm Spectraspeed. It has Spectra filaments in a dacron sheath, and is made by Marlow, a British company. The guy I get it from is Masahiro Mori (morifish@aol.com) in Montebello, California. He makes and sells all sorts of spearfishing equipment, and became a Marlow dealer simply so he could offer this line for use on reels. The company makes it in 2 mm and 3 mm thicknesses, but he got them to make him a special run of 2.5 mm as a compromise between ease in handling and reel capacity.

For those of you in Europe or the Middle East, a British source might make more sense.

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Probably not available in the UK then. I think the RA wishbones use 1.8mm dyneema, possibly thinner, in order to fit the grooved notches of the SA spears.

Søren said:

When ordering from US there is an import duty here in Denmark. Isn't there something like that in UK?
It really makes it a hassle ordering from abroad as prices can DOUBLE if your parcel is picked for control.
Are things different in the UK?

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Yes a rather strange Kenyan engineer living in Denmark complained to me about how awful taxes were in Denmark. He was planning to leave for the USA.

There probably are - and I've heard of people being stung with excessive charges when placing fairly large orders with Carbalas for example -- which is horribly protectionist & non-productive in this day and age (how do they live with themselves?). I tend to buy small items and/or used items, which don't seem to attract additional charges (costs more to collect than they'd collect) - I think there is an £18 limit, at least there is for the Channel Islands. I did buy a couple of very large items from the USA but they were classed as commercial samples which apparently didn't incur additional charges. Ditto Malaya.

When we lived in the USA people used to send us birthday and Christmas presents and, depending on how they declared/documented/valued them, we'd often end up paying extra taxes on them, sometimes quite large. Silly really considering how much more expensive stuff was/is in Britain to start off with. It all seemed pretty random though. We learnt to tell everybody to ensure they write "GIFT" on them, apparently they're not supposed to tax gifts, or have some higher limits. We also told them not to over state the price (folk think it's for insurance purposes but it is for taxing purposes, or possibly both - best to be fairly accurate).