CB Range discussion

hey everyone As you all know my wife keeps me locked up around the clock in a cb2000 with the meduim POI. The POI isn’t a bad design, but there are moments when those sharp points really hurt (pun intended), mostly during the early morning hours while I’m trying to sleep and knowing that i have a 200km drive coming up in just a couple of hours. Plus, they have been known to pinch me once or twice!! Being typical Kiwis, we are a nation of “tinkerers,” so I decided to see if I could improve on the POI’s main purpose (keeping the cb2000 secure) without quite as much pain for those weekdays. after some trial and error ive come up with this .. using the spacer from one of the cb3000 split rings and adding the rest by modifying, cutting, sanding, and dremiling 40mm pvc pipe. [Image: 1_spikes.jpg] The ‘spikes’ are larger and flatter than normal POIs and don’t dig in quite as cruelly … what is hard to see in the photo though is that they are tapered. This means they will slide along the shaft easily one way (when putting it on), but if you try to pull out from the back, they tend to dig in and cause quite a bit of pain. By bringing the spike down further than the normal poi, it rests against more of the shaft, making it much harder to pull out. Even if I could manage to pull it out, i seriously doubt if I could stuff it back in afterwards. This leads me to my next prototype; im looking at the possibility of creating something simular but on a small sliding rail that is spring loaded … this way the poi can ride up and down the shaft as it contracts and enlarges (as much as it can anyway). However, if someone pulls out from the back, the POI will spring off the rail and won’t be able to go back on unless the cage is taken off. This idea could even be spike free since it wont need the deterent of the spike to stop pullout … trying to explain why the spacer isnt between the A ring and the cage would be:sex020: anyways what do ya’all think??… back to my corner to carve more plastic