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[cecil]

I LOVE it Jack.   Mr. James did a 100 foot wire walker, and I want to leave him in my Trompo wake.

[Kirk]

I thought that you would hit the parked car!
Very cool.
It was nice to have the camera follow the top so we could see it better.

[cecil]

This is with the Spintastic, just to see what it would do. The best so far 54 1/2 feet. Standard tip, and top. It's fun. This is the plastic $ 12.00 top with stanard tip, with 12 pound fishing line with ten foot long large spintastic line.

[lincolnrick]

Now that's something I can try! Great work Cecil, thanks.

[the Earl of Whirl]

That does look like fun!

[ta0]

Wow! 
I guess you used a Quick Silver hybrid. I did not think it was possible, extrapolating from my experience with wire walkers with normal tops. I guess the fishing line makes a big difference (besides your ability).

Thanks for posting it. Now I don't have any excuses not to try it!

The association should definitely certify some record for this event. Or at least we could have a contest at meetings.

[cecil]

Now how to go straight up like 30 feet, like they do in the circus?

[lincolnrick]

Cecil, can you confirm or clarify Ta0's statement on which Spintastic top you used?

[cecil]

 I used the large Spintastic, with standard tip (C tip is for tricks = you go slow) Ten foot long Spintastic large line. Throw underhand tip is up, to the palm, 12 pound fishing line, ( I used Trilene ) try to find the lowest length like 300 yards. Go as cheap as possible. Because you don
't know what will work for you. After Christimas, I want to see what the five inch tall Komo will do. When you go to the longer line it just makes tops more fun.

[lincolnrick]

I used the large Spintastic, with standard tip (C tip is for tricks = you go slow) Ten foot long Spintastic large line. Throw underhand tip is up, to the palm, 12 pound fishing line, ( I used Trilene ) try to find the lowest length like 300 yards. Go as cheap as possible. Because you don
't know what will work for you. After Christimas, I want to see what the five inch tall Komo will do. When you go to the longer line it just makes tops more fun.

Thanks Cecil!!

[cecil]

I put a Spintastic C tip in the large top. I pushed tip in till it stopped a 1/16 away so I would ride on the .390 diameter. The top would go twenty feet and fall off every time. So then I filled of the plastic corner and tried it again. Same thing it fell off at twenty feet. Next I put the C tip in a hand drill and filled a V grove in the .390 diameter. It looks funny but this is just a test. I glue the tip in. Here are the pictures of the tips. I will try it today.

P.S I went from 54 feet to 64 feet with the stock blue top.

[ta0]

I like your experiments: you are going to figure out the optimal wire walking tip. I look forward to your results.
Good work!

[cecil]

I took the red spintastic out today. It was dropping off at 20 feet, with the v-grove it went 65 feet. Stock neck is .250 the v-grove is .325 so if you make a new tip with the neck .400 and use 10 pound line you might get 75 feet. I hope some one tries this - it's fun.

[ta0]

Thanks a lot for the information.

I was curious if there was any slippage at the tip, so I made some calculations.
For your 97ft wire walker the video gives a walking time of about 22 seconds. The tip is 0.4" diameter or 1.26" circumference.
Using the average speed of 4.41 ft/sec = 52.9 in/sec, that corresponds to 42.1 revolutions per second or 2,500 RPM. I am surprised that the average rotational rate for such a large top is that high. Definitely there is very little or no slippage.

For the 54.5 ft wire walker in 13 seconds with the Spintastics, using 0.25" tip diameter, it gives about 3,850 RPM average for the walk. Again, much faster than what I would have expected. You have a strong arm, my friend!

[cecil]

Tao, get some fishing line and try it. I think we should try to outdo every Trompo thrower in the World. Why? Because it's FUN. Can't waite till we start going straight up, like in the Circus.
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