RE: ShopTalk: SAVING OEM FERRULES?

[Letourneau, Henry J AM1(AW) (VAW120)]

I used the tecnique using the wet paper towell and it worked perfect!!!
after i twisted the head off i just cleaned the tip and pulled it of with a
piece of rubber grip. 
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> Arnie:
>  
> You wouldn't be able to work a ferrule up the shaft toward the butt with a
> taper tip shaft, would you?
>  
> John B
> 
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>       You can use the wet towel method or as I do it  with a tool I made
> by drilling, filing, grinding away the teeth on a cheapy imitation 5"
> visegrip plier. Warm the ferrule with your heat gun, grab the ferrule with
> the tool and twist the the shaft freeling the ferrule. The ferrule can now
> be moved up the shaft, pull the head in normal manner, sand off old epoxy
> from tip and slide off the ferrule.
>       The tool will work to save ferrules on steel or graphite shafts. 
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