Thanks for the feedback. Felt pretty stupid yesterday. I don't have any type of mechanical puller, but will obviously need to get something. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Tutelman Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Removing Clubheads At 11:48 PM 8/24/03 -0500, you wrote:
>I am new to this forum and relatively new to clubmaking. I have a basic
>question. How do you remove clubheads using a heat source, without
>damaging the ferrule or the shaft? What am I missing? Apparently, I am
>realizing, up till now, I have only *removed* heads that did not use
>ferrules. Today I attempted to remove a steel clubhead from a graphite
>shaft and ruined the ferruled AND the shaft!
I'll be interested to see if anyone has a way of doing this for graphite
shafts. I don't.
The reason is that you MUST use a straight pull to remove a graphite shaft
without ruining it -- no twisting. That pretty much demands a mechanical
puller of some sort; you can not exert enough pressure with just your bare
hands. And the mechanical pullers that I have seen require cutting away the
ferrule to allow pressure directly on the hosel. It would be theoretically
possible to build a puller that holds the head somewhere other than the top
of the hosel, but I have never seen one.
OTOH, if the shaft is steel, it is easy to preserve the ferrule. That's
because you can remove the head by twisting, which allows hand removal. I
wet a strip of rag, and secure it around the ferrule with a rubber band.
The wet rag keeps the torch flame from the ferrule, so it is protected. (If
you also need to get the ferrule off the shaft, that may be a lot harder --
or not, depending on whether the ferrule has epoxy to secure it to the shaft.)
Hope this helps.
DaveT
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