All you ever wanted to know about shafts

[golfshooter]

Re: All you ever wanted to know about shafts

No worries DaveGord.Thank you very much for the time you have given me LP. I pretty much had it and your explanation simplified and confirmed it. I can see he is advocating this to maximise the flexibility, particularly in the tip. I just don't see it working practically over the full set, given the bores will be at all different depths with a little lead here and there. I think it would be a nightmare.
Speaking of different depths, when I cleaned out the bores, I came to a point where they seemed to be right as I had come to a narrower part, a kind of step an inch in. Fearing I would go to far I stopped there. Something just didn't look or weigh right. I got hold of a magnifying glass a could see the bottom was a different colour. So you guessed it ,lead. I cleaned it out with a drill and dremmel and found an extra .25" I also found it almost impossible to go too deep as the metal is so hard. So is that step to mark the minimum shaft depth allowed? One more, when using lead beads, I assume it is mixed with epoxy?


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[LowPost42]

Re: All you ever wanted to know about shafts

It's possible you just converted your .355 taper hosel to a .370 parallel - that lip may have been the taper. In some heads a weight can be dropped into the "hosel weight port" and there's a bit of a lip at the bottom of the hosel.

If you're looking to add powder to adjust swing weight, there's a couple methods. One is to simply pour the powder in, then ramrod a cork down there; the other method is to ramrod a cork down first, then add powder, then another cork.

[golfshooter]

Re: All you ever wanted to know about shafts

Thanks for the info on the lead LP. The clubs are Powerbilt TPS with 92gms graphite shafts. The club heads are in as new condition but the shafts have the flex of a broomhandle and a 92 gm weight. They are being replaced with Dynamic Gold Lite S400 , the set came perfectly matched at 111gms. I have thoroughly cleaned the hosels and they all have this little ridge 1 1/8"in from the top.The ridge is 1/8"deep. The old shafts fitted the same with the tip stopping at the ridge.When I say clean ,I mean spotless. I finished with a pointed grinding fitting in a "dremell" at 30,000 rpm, man the steel is hard, didn't even mark the ridge, sure got the rest of epoxy and lead though! Thanks for the info on the lead LP. If anyone has a theory on this quirk I'd be glad to here it.
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