Bud, >only thing I noticed at the higher temp is the glue > oozes out of the hosel and can lead to a mess if you don't keep and eye on > it and mop it up before it is too late...
Sure does. I screwed up an S450 reshafting yesterday by not checking after 1-1/2 hours and closing that expansion gap between the ferrule and hosel before the epoxy got too hard to do it. Had to pull the head and re-epoxy it. One way to avoid this problem that seems to work for me, is to stand the club head up against the wall (in a corner, wrapped in the heating pad) and put a Bed Buddy on top of it. A Bed Buddy is a heavy sock-like bag full of a sand-like substance you heat in a microwave as a winter foot or bedwarmer. I guess a longish sand bag or any kind of weights would work just as well. If I use the medium temperature and not a lot of epoxy, I don't usually get any expansion, but the temp probably never gets much over 100� and setting up takes twice as long...maybe 4 hours. I need to get some of the halogen work lights that Chris uses for heat curing and make a rack to set the clubs in. The back of the rack would have a shelf to hold the lights about a foot from the heads. The grip ends would go into a base with holes, and sand bag (or Bed Buddy) would lay right across the soles of the heads on top. Just haven't had time to do that kind of stuff, nor the room, until I figure out some new space arrangement. My garage is full of peritoneal dialysis paraphanelia...boxes of fluid, fill and drain kits...over 30 boxes of 10,000 ml fluid bags, 3 cartons of drain kits and 1 big carton of fill kits (including lots of tubing, clamps and drain bags), plus a pile of manual 2000 ml fluid bags and miscellaneous items...takes a space about 4' x 8' x 5' high plus space for the pile of empty cartons....and that's just for one month! Had no idea that I'd need a whole 'nother room on the house for this stuff. Sure am feeling better, though...but still haven't got my leg strength back (after a month) and have trouble sleeping with 2500 ml of fluid in my gut for most of the night. If I go to bed at 9:30 PM, the computer operated machine finishes up the four fill and drain cycles about 4:15 AM and I usually don't get to sleep (unaided) much until 3 AM. If I use a sleeping aid like Tylenol PM, I'm too groggy to even play... so early morning tee times are tough. :-) Getting old is such an inconvenience. Bernie Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
