santa has been and so the tinkering begins!!!

[bigslice]

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...tIG4Bw&usg=AFQjCNG6taxIe267p7uu5qNL3LUIa6Ntjg

woop woop just waiting on my shafts to come and we are nearly there

 

[thecraw]

Don't forget the glue mate!

 

[bigslice]

lol im waiting for that, ordered from a different supplier

 

[Lump]

I find hot air guns heat too much of the shaft and are hard to judge how hot you've got the area. I use a small butane torch to pull shafts.

Enjoy though, I love a bit of tinkering.
I've just this evening pulled a low launch shaft and stuck it into a high launch head.
I'd start with something you done mind damaging, its very easy to damage graphite shafts.

 

[thecraw]

I find hot air guns heat too much of the shaft and are hard to judge how hot you've got the area. I use a small butane torch to pull shafts.

Enjoy though, I love a bit of tinkering.
I've just this evening pulled a low launch shaft and stuck it into a high launch head.
I'd start with something you done mind damaging, its very easy to damage graphite shafts.

Butane can scorch the metal, always use a heat gun.

 

[bigslice]

I find hot air guns heat too much of the shaft and are hard to judge how hot you've got the area. I use a small butane torch to pull shafts.

Enjoy though, I love a bit of tinkering.
I've just this evening pulled a low launch shaft and stuck it into a high launch head.
I'd start with something you done mind damaging, its very easy to damage graphite shafts.[/QUOTE

lol ive got a gas torch in the van, was kind of scared of properly scorching my clubs though

 

[Alex1975]

How do you know you are where you should be with temps then? Add heat and then pressure with the puller and ease it out?

 

[granters]

Use the torch davey! Be a man about this. I light a fag off mine then set about it. In saying that i am getting a heat gun,knackered the paintwork on the neck of my last driver

 

[bigslice]

just doing irons first and will defo use my new heat gun, adjustable drivers make it easier to swap shafts

 

[thecraw]

just doing irons first and will defo use my new heat gun, adjustable drivers make it easier to swap shafts

not really mate, you'll still require a shaft extractor if you want to take the sleave/tip off.

 

[bigslice]

not really mate, you'll still require a shaft extractor if you want to take the sleave/tip off.

lol my smileys arent working

 

[bobmac]

I wouldn't use a blowtorch for graphite shafts. Too difficult to control the amount of heat

 

[GreiginFife]

Heat guns also invariably come with a concentrator nozzle that negates the problem of not controlling where the heat is going to.

 

[MGL]

Heat guns also invariably come with a concentrator nozzle that negates the problem of not controlling where the heat is going to.

Even that can be too much for a graphite shaft.

Butane/Propane blow torch for steel heads and a micro-pen torch for graphite. They fill up with the same stuff used for lighters and the very thin flame is ideal for concentrating the heat. Clarke do one for about £25.