Speaking of making things fit, I had a reshaft job yesterday that the guy was in a hurry for. Problem was I didn't have a 1/4" ferrule for woods. All I had were wrong size wood ferrules. The guy insisted upon a 1/4" ferrule. But I had iron ferrules - about 200 1/4" of them, complete with "lips" to fit in the coned hosel top (mazel tof?) I got the ferrules from a guy who was selling out his business. So what to do? Well, the new shaft was a relatively sloppy fit - it needed a little help to fit snugly. I have a few hundred yards of mono fish line that I've been using for shims for years. So, I epoxied the inside and top and bottom edges of the ferrule, epoxied the hosel and the coned section, set the ferrule on the hosel extended the line through the ferrule and into about 1/2" of the hosel and shoved it all together. When the shim "caught" I clipped it off at the ferrule top and shoved the head on. I worked some black epoxy into the tiny gap at the top of the ferrule and wiped it clean. Today, when it all dried I turned the ferrule smooth with the linen belt, wiped it with acetone, double checked to make sure there were no gaps. Perfect! The guy's happy and I'm a few bucks richer. There's always a way. TFlan
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 15:05:31 -0700 Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Making .370 shafts fit into Pings From: [email protected] To: [email protected] You have to get the tip snug against the hosel wall. T On Friday, May 16, 2014, Don M <[email protected]> wrote: OK, I've done the Callaways, I just didn't guess you'd do that in this case. Thanks. -Don M From: Tom Flanagan <[email protected]> To: Shop <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 3:12 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Making .370 shafts fit into Pings If you have reshafted a Callaway bore through you would have noticed a plug in the tip of the slit tip shaft. The plug is bashed into the split tip to expand the tip against the hosel wall to insure a firm fit. You do the same thing in a Ping or other taper tip blind bore taper tip hosel. Slit the tip, put a plug in the tip (you have to experiment with the diameter to get the correct size, and glue it in. TFlanOn Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Don M <[email protected]> wrote: You're losing me on the plug. What are we plugging? -Don M From: Tom Flanagan <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 10:26 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Making .370 shafts fit into Pings Measure the hosel depth. 2 slits and a plug. Epoxy. Done.TflanOn Friday, May 16, 2014, Don M <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it just trial and error as far as how deep to make the slits? 2 or 4 > slits? >> There are so few affordable taper shafts today that it's crazy.>> -Don M>>> >> ________________________________ > From: George Huson <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 7:39 AM> Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Making .370 shafts > fit into Pings >> I agree Tom, I have done several single irons never had a failure. >> George >> Huson> ByGeorge Custom Clubs> On May 15, 2014, at 8:28 PM, Tom Flanagan >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Oh well, I've done several - a couple dozen or more, by slitting the shaft >> tips and never - never, not one time, did I have a failure. All the maybes, >> mights, could be's may happen. If you do it right, it won't. Slit it, plug >> it, epoxy it and don't worry about it. Now if its a full set, then sure, >> ream them out to .370. Or send the club to Ping and let them do the job. For >> me? I'll slit the tip and do the job fast. > TFlan>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Studio | Golf DNA > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I agree with Don J ream the hosels. If I am not mistaken, most Ping irons > are 17-4 stainless.> I have reamed 3 sets of Ping i20 irons for my son, a fr
