If you go in with a few people and you order at least 25 rolls, 1.25 size mono is under $20. bucks for a 400m spool thru Emc-Vega and that's including shipping. This is for the good stuff.
There easy to deal with and they take credit cards. I received my order in 2 weeks. I wouldn't think it would even be worth using cheap and heavier mono. You want good quality mono and use the thinnest you can to get good results. I have over a hundred launches on some spools without one line break. It will last if you take care of it, but it does depend on your milage on what your field surface is. Dave Hauch Mich. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hall, Stuart A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jo Grini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <soaring@airage.com> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 7:58 AM Subject: RE: [RCSE] Re: Winch Line > www.atagulf.com was the place recommended to me for cheap Korean mono. Approximately $9 per kilometer. Apparently, however, the stuff is not particularly stretchy so I plan to use it just for sport flying without much zoom. If it knots up while I am learning to handle a winch on mono, I will strip it off and throw it in the garbage and restring some more since the stuff is cheap. > > You could potentially buy it directly from the chinese factory as well... http://www.richn.com.cn/products1_en.htm was a link that popped up on a google search. > > It is said around here that gliding friends don't let other gliding friends fly on braid. It is also said that flying from non-stretchy Korean mono is a better alternative, any day, than braid. :-) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jo Grini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mon 3/7/2005 4:27 AM > To: soaring@airage.com > Cc: > Subject: [RCSE] Re: Winch Line > > > A little late but it takes time to read it all :-) > > You can actually buy fishing line... It is almost the same and the cost is nothing compared to the mono they say. Personally I have not tried it. It IS the same line as you can buy in hobby shops but the there is a possibillty to buy a line that might have been produced with another spec than you wanted. > So if you need cheap line go to a a shop or company that sell thick fishing line for commercial use. Expect to buy a lot at the same time. > > Normally I use 1,25mm to 1,45 deppending on the conditions. For competition that matters I always put on a new line. Most common places to buy is Emc-Vega or Fischer. Earlier we also bought some "japan-line" but the contact seems gone. Fischer line is a bit more "strechy" so you can use thicker line and still have a good bungee effect in the zoom. > BTW I use different line for F3J than F3B... Then I use a "pentagon-line" from Emc-Vega. And yes it looks like Pentagon :-) 5 edges to cut the air faster. But on a winch it will run old very fast. > > Hilsen (Regards) Jojo > www.grini.no > > > > D.}zy2xvmvzjjjjmzÆ0Ây|myjj8zzN{ RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
