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Tom, I too hand hold a callaway and use my drill motor. With a Callaway metal wood head that is the only way you can get the job done. On any head where there is not enough hosel to get a hold of I always hand hold. Tell you what Tom 150 RPM spining right next to your hand sure looks like its going 2000 RPM.
RK
Manufacturer's of World Class Golf Club Repair Equipment
-------Original Message-------
Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:21:44 PM
Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Callaway x-14 reshaft
Hah ;-)
Who's afraid of the big bad RK? Not me. Not as long as in in CA and he ain't
;-)
Seriously though, reaming out the tiny bit at the bottom of a Callaway can
be done a lot more quickly by sticking it in a vise and using an electric
drill motor/reamer. Hell, if you think that's bad, get this; the guy I
part-timed for after I retired didn't have a drill press. He had one of
those universal lathe/drill machines. The drill chuck was at the end of the
turning section of the lathe - horizontal! We reamed and drilled all heads
hand-held and shoved into the bit. This was a high-volume shop - we
specialized in Callaway and Titleist bore-through reshafts - as many as a
dozen a day at times. I don't know what the power of the machine was, nor do
I know the rpm's, but that sucker turned fast and strong. Anything other
than a straight shot into the hosel and goodbye head - and hello hand cuts
and bruises. I wasn't a particularly good way to ream out hosels but . . .
like they say in the Mexican Marines when I complained about it . . . "El
Tougho Shitto."
TFlan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl McKinley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Callaway x-14 reshaft
> Tflan,
>
> Say it aint so. In a vise, free hand no less.
> Wait to RK reads about that. I can see another
> lecture coming;-)
>
> Carl
>
> --- tflan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > They actually do have a little hosel and you
> > can clamp them in a shaft
> > drillpress vise. Mostly I just clamp them
> > between two rubber pads and do it
> > freehand with an electric hand drill and
> > reamer. You only need to remove a
> > few 1/1000" to clear out the hosel bottom.
> >
> > TFlan
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tim & Karen Cardoza"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 12:47 PM
> > Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Callaway x-14 reshaft
> >
> >
> > > I haven't done this myself yet and now that I
> > have a drill press I have a
> > > simple question.
> > >
> > > What's the best way to clamp no-hosel heads
> > for reaming. Is it to clamp in
> > > a regular vice and then tilt the table to get
> > the proper angle?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > TC
> > >
> > > At 12:16 PM 3/10/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> > > >Parallel but there's a smaller diameter at
> > the bottom of the hosel. Note
> > > >that Callaway slits their iron tips and
> > shoves a tip plug in them. The
> > > >slit/plug allows the shaft to be firmly set
> > - and no doubt there's a
> > > >cosmetic effect as well. Your choices are to
> > ream out the hosel to .370"
> > or
> > > >slit the tips. Reaming is easier.
> > > >
> > > >TFlan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >----- Original Message -----
> > > >From: "JB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 6:19 PM
> > > >Subject: ShopTalk: Callaway x-14 reshaft
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Do the callway X-14 Pro irons take a
> > parallel or taper tip shaft?
> > > > >
> > > > > TIA
> > > > > John B
> > > > >
> > > > >
> >
>
>
> =====
> Carl Mc Kinley, PCS Certified Class 'A' Clubmaker
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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