Looking for advice from those who've had a couple builds/been through this.
Im about 6 weeks into playing on my DIY sim, had a few incidents and I'm losing trust in it.
I thinned one bad today and it taken out a monitor thats behind me ~13 ft back and 4ft high so it rebounded at chest height fairly badly and could have hit me in the wrong spot and been worse.
I've probably hit 2k shots and have had a handful come back but thought I'd solved it with the wedge and slack.
Lot of money time and effort so keen to solve but don't know what other than a wedge would work. It's medium density foam wrapped loosely with leather. 7cm tall and 10cm deep so angled less than 45 toward screen, I've offset any rigid structure so the ball can't really hit anything solid, just foam and leather, it's been hit plenty more or less in one section, mostly works fine, but occasionally scary.
My only idea is to cut the screen along the stitch line above the grommets and lower the screen to the floor, maybe a shallower wedge to keep raw edge tidy, but unsure how well that'd work. Mostly need to feel safe using it even if it's slightly unsightly though I'd like to try and keep it tidy.
Any tips from people who have had sims a while longer and been around the block are welcome.
by Radiant_Fan1735
8 Comments
I put pipe insulation around everything and that’s really reducing kickback.
I have oversized pipe insulation and i think extra gap allows it some time to slow the ball down more. Just something ive noticed.
So it’s bouncing off your foam wedge? Sandbag would be less bouncy.
I put pipe insulation around all the emt piping, and also used gutter foam that I wrapped in white fabric from Michael’s. Works for me pretty well. Once in a while, one will make between the top of the foam and the bottom of the screen if I really hammer a worm burner, but I have a net behind the screen just in case. I don’t get ricochet shots though
I used two of these sandbags and it solved the problem for me
https://a.co/d/aKgxCgc
So you need more angles, it doesn’t stop the ball, just makes it fly into the enclosure. Packaged enclosures have an angle covering all edges, not tight foam. I used a king mattress pad stopper for ground angle. Gutter foam angles good too.
Really nice work on the panels fyi, add angles
Have you tried laying the turf on top of the wedge? Effectively make the bottom of your screen “recessed” behind the turf/raised wedge