Ron's reply makes a lot of sense if you are just trying to reshaft a single club. However, if you were doing a set I'd ream them. Very easy if you follow Richard Kennedy's invaluable advice at [1]http://clubmaker-online.com/rk.drillpress.html
/Ed On Thu, May 15, 2014, at 04:08 PM, Ron Blanchard wrote: I have seen quite a few bent shafts RIGHT AT the hosel on older PING irons due to the hardness of the head (17-4). I would be really concerned that a split shaft would present a serious danger of breakage and the head flying off which would be a liability. I think you're better off just finding a similar discrete-length shaft for PING irons, especially those older ones. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Don W Johnson <[2][email protected]> wrote: With any taper hosels splitting the shaft is not a recommended way to put a .370 in a .355 hosel. It will work but I would do only in the case of an emergency. Customer realizing it may come apart. If you really have only one choice of shafts I would bore out the heads to .370. I don't think Pings Taper is that much different than the standard. Don Johnson -----Original Message----- From: [3][email protected] [mailto:[4][email protected]] On Behalf Of Don M Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:23 PM To: [5][email protected] Subject: ShopTalk: Making .370 shafts fit into Pings Other than reaming the hosel, I mean. Didn't we have a conversation years ago here about how to slit the tips of .370 steel shafts and force them into tapered hosels? If yes, will it work on a Ping Eye2? I don't know the particulars but Ping's taper is a bit different than most. Any enlightenment welcome! -Don M -- Shoptalk ** Sponsored by the new Aldila Voodoo. Learn more at [6]http://aldilavoodoo.com/ -- Shoptalk ** Sponsored by the new Aldila Voodoo. Learn more at [7]http://aldilavoodoo.com/ References 1. http://clubmaker-online.com/rk.drillpress.html 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. http://aldilavoodoo.com/ 7. http://aldilavoodoo.com/
