Al,
Yeah. And I'm on the short end of a short life. Probably just as well. I
can't even read the numbers on a cordless phone anymore and have no idea what
all those buttons with the tiny print are for. :-) Geez, call waiting, caller
ID, old messages, new messages, you name it....I'd just as soon not have anybody
call me when I'm gone, but my wife just loves all that stuff.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:34
PM
Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Inexpensive
stepless steel shafts
Bernie, Not to mention the fact that our grand kids are
growing up, never knowing life without color TV, computers, cell phones,
Lasers, space travel etc. My grandma, when she died, had experienced
life from horse and buggy in Cleveland to men walking on the moon. Life
is too damn short.
Al
At 02:40 PM 10/11/2002, you wrote:
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.
:-) Bernie Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----
Original Message -----
- From: Dan Neubecker
- To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
- Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:11 PM
- Subject: RE: ShopTalk: Inexpensive stepless steel
shafts
- Bernie,
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- 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
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- -----Original Message-----
- From: Bernie Baymiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
- Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 12:46 PM
- To: Shoptalk
- Subject: ShopTalk: Inexpensive stepless steel
shafts
- Some chaff for the wind, since it sems to be slow around here
lately...
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- 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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- Bernie
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