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Question???? Why don't newbee's listen to people that have been doing
this crap for years, 22 years in my case Tom F has over 35 years (I
think). When attempting to remove a shaft from a
975 "PLEASE" preheat the head first. I use boiling
water (approx. 15 minutes) Tom F. uses an old deep fryer filled with
sand. Both do the same job, and both methods save time,
money and keep you from pulling your hair out, which is getting a little
thin on top anyway. A newbee bought a puller
& a drill fixture from me a little over a month ago, called about 2
weeks ago to tell me that there is something wrong with the puller that he
purchased from me and asked if he could return it for a
refund. I asked him what was "IT" doing
wrong. He said that he was attempting to pull a shaft
from a 975 "BUT" the body part that has the finger attached to it was
forcing the body part to skew sideways and that the clamp pad area was all
askew also. He did state that the new 3" clamp was
holding. I asked him if he preheated the
head, "NO" he said, I'm just trying to pull it like I do anyother
shaft. I then asked him if he had any problems pulling
anyother shafts, he said "NO" this is the first try. I then
said "You mean you've had the puller now for a little over 3 weeks and
this is the very first chance to use it???"YES" he said. I told
the guy to preheat ????, he says, either in boiling water or a deep fryer
and get back to me before sending anything back. So
I don't hear a word from him for over a week until Tuesday at which out of
the blue UPS delivered me a package, which I had to sign
for. I took the puller out to the shop and open the box
and there was the puller looking good minus the rubber clamp
pad. I had my worker, yes guys I'm an employer again,
pull a our 975 test piece, 15 minutes in the boiling water, 2 minutes to
get it clamped in the puller, 2 more minutes of the heat gun on the top
section of the head and off it came just like it was designed to
do. We then ran a dry reamer by finger power just to clean out
the hosel and mixed some epoxy up and reglued it.
Yesterday we set up "THE" puller again, and again off came the head in 3
minutes, this time we had the puller in the vise before we tried to
clamp/pull the shaft. Using some SA 2000 we pulled the
head twice again on Wed. Again at
quitting time on Wed, 3:30, we mixed up some more Cadnap Epoxy and
let it set until 1;00 today. Off it came again, little longer
getting it off this time as Marion put the socket wrench away and we
could find it for about 10 minutes, but there was still enough heat in the
head for an easy pull.
What I'm getting at is now the guy wants a
refund. In the first place I gave him a discount
for buying both items, $25.00, and there is "NOTHING" wrong with the
puller, which I now have just over 75 minutes into pulling test shafts @
.65/minutes.. I think that I should give him
back about $35.00, Marion says "GIVE HIM
BACK$100.00. What do you guys think???
Just thought of something that may help out pulling
975's. Why no pour some light cooking oil down
inside the shaft so that when your heating up the shaft the oil inside the
shaft will also get hot and act like a "HOT ROD" like we do when
pulling steel shafts from "WOOD" woods. Just a thought,
something to do tomorrow.
RK
Manufacturer's of World Class Golf Club Repair
Equipment
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