Oh yeah make sure the wire you wrap around the shaft adapter is solid wire not stranded wire and the thickest gage you can find!
Sincerely, Robert Devino 14252 Delano St. Van Nuys, Ca. 91401 (818) 908-1691 (818) 770 -0475 cell ________________________________ From: Robert Devino <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:37:04 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Taylormade R9 Sleeves Rap the plastic piece in a cold wet towel before applying heat to the lower piece. If the rubber o - ring really doesn't have a functional purpose cut it off before applying heat and get a small piece of sheet metal thin enough to slide into the slot left by the o - ring and create a heat shield with it. Apply heat to the metal piece in the most cautious manner a good way to do this would be to create a direct coil electric heating apparatus. To do this first get a strip of bare copper wire long enough to coil around the metal part of the shaft adapter enough times to cover the area the shaft is inserted in the metal piece. Have enough extra wire coming off to solder too. Get a large ten ohm 110 volt heat resistor. Solder this resistor to one end of the wire rapped around the shaft piece, Solder one end of a wire with a plug to the other end of the resistor and the other end of the plug cord to the other end of the wire coil. Plug it in and it will heat up. It will get very hot and the heat will be very local to the metal part of the shaft adapter. This will create the most localized and concentrated heat application possible. Warning please observe safety precautions when trying this. Like don't touch the bare wire parts of the apparatus while it's plugged in. Have a parent present ! Once you have the materials this procedure won't take as long as it sounds. Charge a premium for your time and blame it on TM for making such a problematic contraption. Or sell them an Alpha driver head that will out perform the TM. Tell them TM has finally ran out of bogus marketing gimmicks and in order to produce a new model head every six months it has now turned to the hosel in order to con golfers into buying the latest and greatest $400 - $600 driver that won't really change much in their games! Sincerely, Robert Devino 14252 Delano St. Van Nuys, Ca. 91401 (818) 908-1691 (818) 770 -0475 cell ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:45:54 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Taylormade R9 Sleeves I re shafted my 1st one a few days ago. The bottom of the hosel adapter is steel or Ti, but the top of it is some kind of very hard plastic with a little rubber ring on top, the rubber ring is not worth trying to save, I can't see that it serves any purpose, not even cosmetic. The plastic portion did deform just a wee bit from the heat, I was judicious with the heat and I am the only one who can even notice the deformation, but on the next one I will be even more cautious with the heat. I tried to point out the deformation to the customer and he couldn't see it so it was small, but I can easily see that if someone were not very careful they could cook it. David In a message dated 4/16/2009 6:05:14 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Any suppliers of the R9 sleeves yet? Or is TM keeping the reshaft business. I checked Billy Bob's web site and didn't see the interchangeable hosel. -- Thanks! John Muir shoptalk ________________________________ Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar!
