Season's Greeting's Everybody, I sure would like to meet the Engineer thta came up with that IDEA because to me he must be the greatest Engineer in the world. (;>]) If you OLD TIMERS, If there is any of us left here on ST, remember back when I joined ST I told everrybody that would listen , Yes I'm refering to you two Tom & Al T, that i bought myself some oversized taps and did that to "ALL" of the clubs that I built for my customers. And a lot of you OLD TIMERS just laughed at me and said that if you built clubs right that that would not be needed, yeah right!!!!!! And I know of NO ONE that ever bought land in FLA that did not end up with SWAMP LAND!!!!!!!!! THAT's right there is ALWAYS that one time that you just had to put those three sets of clubs together so that you can GOLF this coming weekend and had just made up enough epoxy to put together about 2 1/2 sets of clubs "sooooooooo" you skimped just wee bit on every club head so that yes you could go play golf on Saturday and one or two of the heads came off and ended up in the bottom of some forgotten pond on some forgotten gollf course somewhere's out in the country.
No I always used a tap down thw hosel then follow it up by running a raemer down the hosel bore to get rid of the burr that the tap kicked up when you ran it down the bore. I always got "OVER SIZED TAP's" for this job and used only the reamer that was needed for that szie hosel, and that is another good reason for using reamers, you can buy them in DECEMIAL SIZES lke .370 or .373 or maybe .381 if those are the sizes that you need, lets see anybody go out and buy a drlll those sizes right off of the shelf RK Hope that your new years goes as good as your XMAS did, unless something BAD happened to you, then I hope that your new year is better ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve "Cub" Culbreth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 9:51 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Notes on Srixon Forged Irons Jay, No es problema. Threaded is a good thing. Instead of being smooth on the inside of the hosel, these heads have groves cut similar to bolt threads. It helps the epoxy take hold. The pins I was referring to are swingweight pins. Some were in the shaft tips, as they should be, but others were reversed at the bottom of the hosel. Think of how a tip pin is shaped. The OD of the body is the same or less than the ID of the shaft, and the head is the same as the OD of the shaft. When you turn it around with the body facing down in the hosel, press it in and epoxy it with the head looking up, it is a pain in the arse to get out. Hope this helps. Cub ----- Original Message ----- From: comgolf To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 2:36 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Notes on Srixon Forged Irons Thanks Steve for the tip !! Since i'm new (it seem), could you explain what you mean by threaded? I'm punch'd out pins from an old set of Tommy Armour blades but what do you mean by the pins being expoxied upside down?? I'd like to continue to learn something :-) Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve "Cub" Culbreth To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 11:51 PM Subject: ShopTalk: Notes on Srixon Forged Irons Jents, Just thought I'd pass on the trials of working on Srixon 302 Forged Irons: The hosels are tapered and threaded, brass tip pins were in some shafts, some brass tip pins were epoxied upside down in the bottom of the hosel and were a bear to get out. Not much material in the way of specs available from Srixon. Nice looking set of irons but the first real pain in the ass I've had in a long time. Mele Kalikimaka, Cub
