Post by barndoor on Aug 16, 2008 0:51:37 GMT 1
The product is called "Trident 180" it has worldwide patents and is due for official launch in the next few weeks...
Basically the concept is very simple and extremely effective. Due to modern manufacturing techniques all darts manufactured since the mid 90's using CNC machinery have a flat face at the point end about 3.5 - 4mm diameter, The point is then pressed into a hole in this face leaving a square shoulder where the point meets the dart barrel. This shoulder is the cause of the vast majority of bounceouts and deflections due to the shoulder hitting the hard edge of the flight or barrel.
Trident 180's are small inexpensive dart point cones that slide snuggly onto a standard point and blend the shoulder between the point and the barrel smoothly thus causing an incoming dart to glide past the flights already in the board and into the target.
The concept has been tested extensively using an area on a dartboard about 8 inch diameter packed with about 30 darts. Thousands of darts were then thrown into the pack of darts over a number of days (darts missing the area were discounted) and bounceouts were recorded using "Trident 180s" and without and results showed that bounceouts were reduced by more than 50%
Another key feature of this particular test was the life of the flights was dramatically increased using the tridents.
Another test we did was to put darts into a wind tunnel to see the deflection on the point as air passes over the dart. The airodynamics of the darts using the tridents was dramatically improved, reducing the wobble at the point by up to 8mm. If you think about it, how can a dart like Phils, apparently designed by a rocket scientist still have a large right angle shoulder at the front?? I was lucky enoygh to win some of these and have used them for a few weeks now and yes they do work
Basically the concept is very simple and extremely effective. Due to modern manufacturing techniques all darts manufactured since the mid 90's using CNC machinery have a flat face at the point end about 3.5 - 4mm diameter, The point is then pressed into a hole in this face leaving a square shoulder where the point meets the dart barrel. This shoulder is the cause of the vast majority of bounceouts and deflections due to the shoulder hitting the hard edge of the flight or barrel.
Trident 180's are small inexpensive dart point cones that slide snuggly onto a standard point and blend the shoulder between the point and the barrel smoothly thus causing an incoming dart to glide past the flights already in the board and into the target.
The concept has been tested extensively using an area on a dartboard about 8 inch diameter packed with about 30 darts. Thousands of darts were then thrown into the pack of darts over a number of days (darts missing the area were discounted) and bounceouts were recorded using "Trident 180s" and without and results showed that bounceouts were reduced by more than 50%
Another key feature of this particular test was the life of the flights was dramatically increased using the tridents.
Another test we did was to put darts into a wind tunnel to see the deflection on the point as air passes over the dart. The airodynamics of the darts using the tridents was dramatically improved, reducing the wobble at the point by up to 8mm. If you think about it, how can a dart like Phils, apparently designed by a rocket scientist still have a large right angle shoulder at the front?? I was lucky enoygh to win some of these and have used them for a few weeks now and yes they do work
