What experiences has anyone had with bows that have been stored in non climate controlled environments? I'd like to hear them, good and bad.
For example, a bow stored in its original box unstrung for 20 years in an attic. :knothead:
Mine endure temperatures in the mid-thirties most days in storage, and into the high-forties on some days in the bush. The humidity is high here for more than half the year. Those temperatures are in degrees Celcius; I don't know what that is in degrees Fahrenheit. Anyway, my bows are fine. Incidentally, I don't leave them strung.
Hello Raineman, I have stored my bows unstrung, in the back room (no A/C or heat) unstung on a horizontal bow rack. I rotate shooting them about once a month. They get a good coat of wax about twice a year. Temperatures vary from realy cold to realy warm+ (Oklahoma dontcha know) and have not experienced any problems with my bows.
35Deg C = 95 deg F; 45 deg C = 113 deg F.
I am similiar to Ben Kleinig. I also live in the heat in Western Australia. I have probably had a few more problems.
One of my T/D bows developed a crack on the riser. The riser was not Dymondwood but a solid piece of hardwood. I just gets so hot there that the ambient temperature feels like you are in an oven.
The main problem I had was with humidity. When I was recently living in Chiangmai in Thailand, I had to go back to Australia for about two months. I stored my Vision in a PVC tube in a cool place in the house. Remember that Thailand gets extremely hot and humid in the Hot season.
When I came back I nearly died to discover that the finish on the bow had turned to mush. I could scrape it off the bow and it came off in lumps of goo underneath my fingernails.
Was probably my fault for leaving it in a sealed tube - unable to breath.
I never leave my bows in the heat of the car or somewhere in direct sunlight.
Sutto
I had my recurve stored in my father's attic while I was in RVN. when I came home, I was stationed in CA and called him to send it to me so I could hunt Catalina. It had de-laminated in the attic (Kentucky). Rmwember the box they glue up in is 160 degrees and attics and cars in the sun can arppraoch those temps, and the glue loses it bonding