ShopTalk: Blowing on grips

[Tom]

There's been a lot of back and forth recently about how to blow on 
grips. I was fooling around in the "grip department" today and decided 
to try something a little different.

I had/have a graphite shaft, .580" butt diameter, and a "Dual Durometer" 
grip with a .600" mouth. I placed a piece of duct tape on the butt end 
to build it up to .600" and began to blow it on, using the "dip the 
mouth in solvent" method. Then I recalled the "old days" of bicycle grips.

I put a little "Ajax" dish washing liquid on the tape and wiped it over 
the first half of the taped area - a really thin coat. Then I put a 
little in the grip mouth. I simply slipped the grip onto the shaft - no 
compressor, no air, nothing other than a simple push/pull. I held the 
mouth end in one hand, and the middle of the grip in the other, and slid 
it on. No problem at all!

So, I tried it with a few others - a couple of Winns, a cord, and a Tour 
Velvet. Every one went right on, and easily.

It worked for me.

TFlan