el-ninio
Contributor
grunzster:
have you tryed to use the original jetfin hardware? you may be able to do so by taking a block like the one you made, and cuting, using a sharp knife, from the top (where the spring comes into the block) to the hole you now use for the wire. If the material is stiff enough, once you pass the wire and it ends up in it's drilled hole, the two sides would close up nicelly. You will need to first put the spring on the hardware "frame", move the frame so the moving bar can be placed into the "ear", and then slide the block over the spring and frame, and turn it so it faces the right direction (see pictues of my delrin version some pages back). the small moving bar locks the blocks into place, and prevents any chance of the blocks sliping off.
(I really have no idea how hard the hockey pucks really are, we tend to have very little ice here - so what i'm suggesting may be not problematic. so don't try this with your nicest blocks. But if it works, you save all the truble with the wire + you get a much nicer looking finish (and you can always remove the springs and sell the fins on ebay with rubber strups if you need to switch to other jetfins))
