Bernie,
Yup, I'm going to
have to get me one of those!
The picture looks
great, thanks.
Dan
Dan,
Are digital cameras great or what! I just e-mailed you a pic of my shaft
puller. At your request, I took the camera off the shelf, walked out to the
garage, shot 3 pics, walked back and plugged the camera into the
computer, picked the best angle and sent it...all within about 2 minutes. Not
the greatest lighting, but just a few years ago that would have taken several
days, using special flash lighting, usually a press camera and messy
developing in a pan. Maybe I'm showing my age to remember that old
stuff. :-)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:11
PM
Subject: RE: ShopTalk: Inexpensive
stepless steel shafts
Bernie,
You'll be happy
to know that in a recent plotting of deflection over frequency on 4 Rifle
shafts (4.0, 5.0 and 7.0 iron and 5.0 wood) seem to indicate 1 cpm
equals about .0035" deflection on my NF2. I don't yet know if that
will be the case for everyone, or necessarily with all types and brands of
shafts, but it appears to be for Rifle's.
Dan Neubecker
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some chaff for the wind, since it sems to be slow around here
lately...
Lately, several suppliers have been selling inexpensive stepless
steel shafts. Elta (Golfsource USA) has the Supreme Gold and Tour Golf has
the Tour Series Stepless Steel, both of which I've tried on my
irons.
The Supreme Golds ($5) seemed pretty good...the two sets I bought
were all were within 3 grams and a little lighter than Rifles...maybe
114 grams for a 39" shaft. They played well. But were they as good as they
seemed?
Since I built those sets, I have begun using my Neufinder 2 to sort
the shafts by deflection, choose a base shaft and match the other shafts
to it by deflection. I generally use the softest NBP in the longest
iron and stiffest NBP in the shortest iron. (Although Dan wants me to try
it the other way around.) The other day, I tried Tour Golf's Stepless
Steel and, again, they were pretty much within specs for weight. But
WOW, some of them seemed way off in the NBP and spine magnitude
when I sorted them on my NF2. The normal NBP deflection for an R-flex
shaft on a 35" beam length appears to be 0.545"-0.549"...at least 5 of the
8 shafts fell within that range. Spine deflections on the 5 normal shafts
were between 0.552" and 0.555"...seemed pretty good. But of the three
outliers, two NBPs were 0.512" and 0.517" and the third was 0.558". If
0.004" equates to about 1 cpm (I'm no mathematician...I was
given that number and hope I'm using it appropriately.), two were off by
at least 6-8 cpm and the other by more than 2 cpm. Not so good. You
couldn't use the manufacturer's recommended tip trim and come anywhere
near a matched set with these unless you got lucky. And, you'd even have a
hard time with a frequency analyzer, unless you took your cpm readings
directly on the NBP and spine.
Just thought it was interesting that shafts that look OK by weight
can have an almost unmatchable spine magnitude.
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