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Knows Whats Up!
Rapier stroke options?
Just picked these up.
got some questions on the rapier.
Is it a rapier II or just a 1?
There are 2 screw holes were the crank arm joins the motor. Is that for different strokes? It looks like it might change it a little.
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Knows Whats Up!
How does the Paco run,,,looks like a Med stroke set-up, but could be the angle of the pic...
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Knows Whats Up!
I didn't really pay much attention to be honest.
Looks like the stroke on the rapier is currently about 4.5mm.
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Senior Member
If it is one of the long stroke rapier 2's I would say it is 4.2mm , but the vice looks different than my rapiers, so maybe it is a first edition. Do you wanna get rid of it?
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Knows Whats Up!
I've been told is a 1/2 hybrid and does have 2 stroke options just by moving one screw.
Must be something like 4.3 and 3.2.
Seems pretty cool.
Dont think I'll be selling it..... well not yet anyway.
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Senior Member
Ha cool if you do lemme know I have a lot to trade with and would definitely buy it that day!
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Machine Builder
as far as i can see from the pics the back end can is the rapier1 with updated rca,the the front slider/chuck frame housing is a rapier1 the bottom crank shaft attacment is a newer rapier 2.
The original chuck/vice slider does not have a back hole in it-the screw went from the front end-the frame had a shorter front end-cary has used two different front front nuts -one looks like a lrage tophat the other is the contactscrew nut you would see on a fki coil machine. That looks like a aftermarket vise know like nedz sometimes use.
I have had a bunch of rapiers so this is based of this and talking to cary for a few hours.
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Knows Whats Up!
Had chance to have a go with it over the weekend. Left it at it's longest setting, which is about 4.2mm.
My initial setup with a needlerunner on a 0.32 7rl bogged the motor down a bit and had to run it at about 8v, so I re-bent the needle a little less and it ran nice around 6.5-7v.
Have to say I was instantly impressed with how nicely it lined. I look forward to trying it on something bigger.
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Knows Whats Up!
Wonder if that's what it's got. It had recently been serviced by Cary and I can adjust it from 3.somthing to 4.2
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