THE WHITE BLOCK MYSTERY

[gillybert]

Just got today my first ever pair of PJs.  Absolutely brill!!!!!!
Been reading up thru posts and everyone talk about the 'white blocks'.

I followed some posts and it seems they go between the spring and the top hoof bolt to spread the bolt edge load onto the spring more evenly.

I don't have any white blocks from new.  What I seem to have is a larger bolt boss with a flat on it facing the spring.



I think this is the latest fix for the White Block saga.

If I'm wrong, and I should have some blocks, could someone please tell me.

Thanx

[webmaster]

Don't worry if you don't have it as it looks like you have got one of the earlier gens. We are going through stock fast now and so some people will be getting the earlier versions that are left.

Before you start paniking don't worry they just as good as the current ones or many may say they are actually better than the current ones 

Have fun

[gillybert]

Cheers for the reply

If mine is an early gen, and looks like it does, why was it changed? Was an improvement needed?

I'm not overly concerned, as I'm not going to be performing breath taking stunts, but I'm a mechanical designer by trade, so I always admire good engineering.

Cheers 

[Kiola]

IMO earlier Gens are in fact Better!

so you've got a better set than if you had 2nd Gens

take a few more pics of your stilts for us please Dude!

[x_Rave_Dave_x]

lucky bugger now if you had been send gen 3 instead then it would be even cooler lol put some more pics up like kiola says id like to see the gen 1's have run remember your wrist gaurds tho =]

[gillybert]

I'll put sum more pix on l8r then i'd be interested to no wot the differences ar to 2nd gen. £rd gens do look kool.

And yes, I did fully pad up for my first trot round.  No probs though  , in under a minute I was wobbly, but walkin round the house unsupported.

Great fun .  Goin to get outside this week and try not to break somethin (on me).

Cheers

[Bbmthbloke]

Actually its safer outside. You will have noticed you need to keep moving all the time. If you fall inside ( and there tends to be not much room  and lots of clutter-maaybe thats just my flat) - now you know its going to be onto the edge of the coffee table or a door handle and Not onto the sofa

The most important difference between gen1 and gen2 ( it is alledged). Is that the rubber used in the hooves of gen 2 is softer and wears out alot quicker.  So basically you got a good deal. ( and you have prob given webmastwr a headache cos peeps will order and ask if they can have some of the old stock gen 1's )

Having said that the gen 1's sold for £40 more!!!!!  So u have got a very very good deal

[Dark Knight]

The most important difference between gen1 and gen2 ( it is alledged). Is that the rubber used in the hooves of gen 2 is softer and wears out alot quicker.  So basically you got a good deal. ( and you have prob given webmastwr a headache cos peeps will order and ask if they can have some of the old stock gen 1's )

My Gen1 lasted hours ( no tyre boots ). 
I ordered a new pair of hoofs and these have a metal plate and then the rubber on them !?
But tyre booties are a must ( not for long  !? )

[gillybert]

 : I know its safer outside but I had to try them and it was chucking it down and hailing outside - I couldn't wait.  Yes, door frames do seem lower in PJs .

Seems I may have got a good deal then - Gen 1s sound the biz. Makes me wonder why things get changed if they work well.  And there's that difference where the white block should be (see earlier in post).

Anyway, I'll put some pix in the gallery of my PJs, cus I'm quite proud of them.  I'm trying to making some booties for them out of some old thick conveyor belting I found, similar to the 'Hoofies', but not as neat. If that fails, my mountain bike will loose a tyre

Will also wrap the springs in I think a long wound strip of an inner tube.  Its thick, flexible and stretchy and won't half protect against knocks.  Will post wot it ends up like.

[webmaster]

The Gen 2 (so they have come to be known!) introduced the Plastic T-Shape peice for few reasons:

It acts as a shock absorber so that it distributes the "shock" of the bounce evenly on the spring

and also acts as a gap buster so that there's less movement of the spring and thus making them less noisy

Having said that your "silver tube" looks slighty bigger than the one on my projumps which are an earlier gen too. Mine has a black tube insted of a silver one but never had the shock absorbers as well.

here you go pic of mine:

[gillybert]

Cheers for that webmaster

Yes the silver tube on mine is much bigger than your black tube, as on mine you cannot see the brass bushes.  My silver tube is not ultra tight in the frame but the bolts are. I think I probably have the black tube/spacer inside and the silver tube is to reduce the gap to the spring. The gap is around 1mm.

  ;DThanx for all the comments

p.s. I've just posted in the Stilts gallery the wrapping of my springs with an inner tube strip.

[webmaster]

Yeah you will probably have a black one behind - hang on I'll take a pic for you

[webmaster]

Please would someone be kind enough to post a picture of the current pro-jump stilts that have the White Shock absorber so we can use it to show the difference in this thread plz 

Thanks in advance!

[gillybert]

Yep, got that. At last I've got something someone else has

Cheers

[carlgreen]

thats wat i got but its red cos i got the 1st gen powerisers

[webmaster]

Found a pic of the current pro-jumps with the shock absorber or white plastic piece in place - not very high res but does the job!

[gillybert]

  Cheers, now I understand, but still not sure which version might be better

[Sx Nutta]

I am going to work away round the white cards!! Naz I lost 2 of the new ones, need to be wider on the hooks!!! Only got 2 spare not, may be in either Gravesend, or Rochester, after meeting up with 2 bockers from Kent!!

[Locky]

* Uncle Matt! is still waiting for some pics of naz on bocks

come on girl

[Dark Knight]

Please would someone be kind enough to post a picture of the current pro-jump stilts that have the White Shock absorber so we can use it to show the difference in this thread plz 

Thanks in advance!

I have Gen1's but I have both big tubes and white bricks and the "black one" is a white one under the rubber !?
This show both one that fell out the the other with it in place ?
you can see the back one in the above picture through the spring 

Front and back ( I've taped it but you can see them !? )

[webmaster]

cheers DK

[gillybert]

Now stripped all the bushes out to grease them and photo'ed the large silver boss I have at the top of the hoof



This is all there is at the front of the spring, and the riveted black rubber at the back.

Has anyone else got the same setup

[webmaster]

My set up is the same at the back but I have the black tube at the front!