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Title: fiberglass shafts - what are they?
Post by: Oregon Okie on October 04, 2008, 05:41:00 PM

Hate to be this guy again. Got some fiberglass shafts - no markings. Ring any bells with anyone?
 (http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll70/harrelr/Rio%20Bravo/shafts/IMG_0755.jpg)
 (http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll70/harrelr/Rio%20Bravo/shafts/IMG_0754.jpg)

Title: Re: fiberglass shafts - what are they?
Post by: Orion on October 04, 2008, 09:35:00 PM

Micro-flites were yellow like that.  Each shaft was marked with the word micro-flite followed by a number, designating the size which corresponded to spine.  Ranged from 0 to 10 initially, and later to 12.  For example, a micro-flite 7 was about 55#@28 inches. Looks like someone might have taken off the identifying information in cleaning them up.

Title: Re: fiberglass shafts - what are they?
Post by: wadde on October 04, 2008, 11:06:00 PM

Those look like old Martin Archery A20 glass shafts.

Title: Re: fiberglass shafts - what are they?
Post by: PAPALAPIN on October 05, 2008, 08:53:00 AM

Unusual that they would not be marked.  As Orion said, they look like Micro flite, but with no markings they coulf be something else.

I never kew about Martin A20.

According to my recollection a Microflite 7 was for 45-50#.  I used to shoot 8's out of my 50# and everyone said I was shooting too heavy a shaft.  When I consulted the charts, they were right.  This was back in the late '60's.

Title: Re: fiberglass shafts - what are they?
Post by: Oregon Okie on October 05, 2008, 11:10:00 AM

I bought a big lot of archery supplies and much of the stuff was Martin so maybe that's another indicator. I need a CSI to find some markings    :knothead:

Title: Re: fiberglass shafts - what are they?
Post by: wadde on October 06, 2008, 12:24:00 AM

Trust me those are A20 Martin shafts. They are ot Microflites