The Club did have an old set of the bungee type floor cords, with elastic cords providing the tension for the body wires. What if we turned the setup on it’s side and hung it all from the roof?
We had plenty of steel channel and some convenient building portal frames. The end of piste locations were relatively easy, adjusted to always have some tension on the elastic bungee and the body wire hanging down within reach.
The control box presented a problem. It needed to be accessible yet clear of the action to prevent damage. Our old control box did not need a remote to work, just switches to set the weapon. So this mounted at a high level would suffice. But, how to reach it to switch it on and off and change weapon? Answer, yet more of our spare steel channel and the use of elasticated bungee cord.
In the up position Pulled down to set
The bungee cord provides just enough tension to keep the box up yet allows it to be pulled down when needed.
As we have an increasing number of epee fencers we try to reserve this central piste for them. They do not (as a rule) tend to fleches which fully extend the elastic system.
Heath Robinson lives!
(You’ll have to Google him if you don’t know about Mr Robinson)
