In a message dated 4/17/2009 7:43:50 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
OK, I finally got to a golf shop and looked at the R9 and the Nike STR8-Fit. I do not see any o-ring? I don't think most people are going to be able to do the extraction without damage to the plastic. It does require care Although Robert D, your resistance heat thingy is a neat idea. But the extractor is still going to be pushing on that plastic, and even if it is cold, I dunno.... The danger is that your extractor will ride over the edge and really foul up the plastic, mine has a tapered channel so that the slot opening is about .500 at the top and .250 at the bottom, and it's screwed in so you can loosen the screw and move it up or down to get a sung fit just touching the shaft walls. Your not working with the head on it so you can aim your heat gun so that the heat just approaches the very tip of the metal portion and works its way up to the epoxy, it takes longer but it beats cooking the plastic. D Billy Bob is coming to the rescue, from what I've heard. BTW just this AM I was fooling around with the Billy Bob adapter ferrule dealie that lets you use a .335 shaft in late model TM or Ping .350 heads and get ~2* change in shaft angle. It works. That is darn cool. I gripe at having to pay $13 for a ten cent piece of plastic. But the "value added" is there, I have to admit. -Don M **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003)
