Hot damn RK (you old fart ;-) I completely forgot about that little gem. Yeah, I did that - geez, it must have been in the late 80's/early 90's. I had, as I recall, a club (don't remember if it was an iron or a wood) with a large diameter hosel into which I had to install a .335" diameter shaft. For some reason I recalled that the o.d. of a parallel tip TT Dynamic Gold iron shaft had an o.d, somewhere up the tip, below the first step, that was about .375" or so.
What the hell, I thought, there must be a way to make this work. So, I cut off a section of the shaft tip and using a really slow speed on the old drill press I had at the time, I clamped the cut-off section of the shaft in the vise and reamed it out . . . . .11/64" (?). Probably. I roughed up the inside and outside of the tip and epoxied it into the hosel. Next was what to do with the ferrule? .335 ID, .375 OD. The O.D of any iron ferrule would work, but the ID wouldn't. The I.D. of a .335 ferrule would work, but the O.D. wouldn't. I had a bunch of 1" long .355" taper tip ferrules. The O.D. of those ferrules was pretty close to the O.D. of the hosel - close enough, as far as I was concerned, cuz this job was a pain in the fanny to begin with. The .335" tip that was inserted into the now .375" hosel took the .355" taper tip ferrule to pretty close to the O.D. of the hosel. Actually, it was real close because back then one had to install ferrules, then buff them down to match the O.D. of the hosel . . . we still do that, but to a much lesser degree than we used to do it. So; I made an insert that then is pretty much the same as is the insert in today's Titleist borethroughs. Had I only known ;-( BTW; RK, you old reprobate. You remembered stuff I forgot. Who's older? Thanks pal for the reminder. It's been a long time and a lotta H2O under the proverbial bridge. And, If you recall anything else I wrote, fa crine out loud, keep it clean. TFlan --- Richard W Kennnedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Flanigan severial years had a very good way of > getting the desired tip > dia. What he did was find himself a steel > tipped shaft that matched the > desired tip dia that he wanted, cut it off there and > then ream out the id of > the cut off tip and install it into his golf head. > Sounds very simple > doesn't it, maybe that why good olde boy TFLG > thought of it. (,>])
