Re: ShopTalk: Grips and compressed air

[tflan]

I mentioned this about 2 years ago. After years of screwing around with old golf tubes, hoses, towels, and whatever else I could think of to keep a grip from exploding, I made a "wrap" that works.     I acquired of a piece of upholstery leather (Naugahyde works also) roughly 12" x 12". I sewed a length of 2" wide velcro along one edge of the leather. I sewed the "loop" piece of velcro on the opposite side of the leather, about 3 1/2" from the edge that the first piece of velcro was sewn to. To use the "tool" I start by wrapping the non-velcro edge around the grip until the two velcros meet. Then I blow the grip off. I've yet to have a grip explode. However, not all grips will pop off. Thin walled grips, like some of early Callaways and most all the big butt grips simply don't want to come off with compressed air alone. Squirting a little solvent usually helps but again, not always.   In the same post, I mentioned that air from a compressor causes more problems than it solves. I have a 120 V. Sears tire inflator that works better than a shop compressor simply because the air is "pulsed" rather than a steady stream.   However, I also said that generally speaking, blowing a grip off is pretty much a waste of time. Unless the grip is an OEM or a relatively new one, I just cut them off. But if I absolutely have to save a grip, I've found the easiest method is to slip a thin, flat, narrow metal strip, lubricated with a little solvent, under the grip. GS and GW sell ready made tools. Mine is home-made. I have never failed to remove a grip, including Winn's, using this method.   TFlan   BTW: Believe it or don't, but a towel wrapped around the grip works as well as most other compressed air methods.   ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 9:32 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Grips and compressed air In a message dated 3/21/04 6:56:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (1) The GolfPride Tour Wrap Midsize went on fine, but the last 2" at the butt never gripped the shaft properly. I was still able to twist it back and forth in that section more than 6 hours afterwards. So I blew that one off again and just regripped it conventionally.     Maybe it would have worked with a new grip of the same model. I suspect the grip had been stretched enough that it couldn't hold by compression and friction alone.