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A few weeks ago I bought a regripping kit, with grips, solvent, tape. It was a disaster. I stripped the old grip off one club and carefully cleaned the shaft, and...couldn't get the new grip more than halfway down. No matter how much solvent I put on it. I ended up cutting the new grip off. I cleaned it again. I used steel wool to clean the shaft, until it was smooth as silk. I tried again. Same result. I tried one more time, with no success. The grips just wouldn't go on.
I went back to the store and saw this kit called "EZ grip -- no tape, no solvent, no vise. Uses our patented 'shrink-wrap' technology". I asked the sales guy about it, and he said he didn't know anyone who had ever used it. He advised me against it. It was $13 for three grips. I figured it couldn't be any worse than the conventional method, so I bought a pack.
The trouble was, all three grips came in one sealed pouch, and it said you have to use them all immediately once you open it, because the shrinking starts right away. That meant I had to strip the old grips off two more irons, and *that* meant that if I couldn't get this to work, I'd be without those irons until I could find someone to do it.
Oh well. Who needs irons anyway?
So I stripped the old grips off the 7 and 9 (I'd already been experimenting with the 5) and cut open the pouch. The EZ grips were coated in some slimy stuff. I followed the instructions, which said to put the grip on the shaft and *push* it down slowly until it was all the way on. This turned out to be easy, because the grips were quite large at this point. One, two, three, all of them slid on effortlessly.
Step two: place the clubs leaning vertically against a wall or something. Wait 24 hours. Well, it's only been4 hours now, but they've already contracted visibly. I'll let you know how they seem in a day or so, but so far I'm impressed.
I went back to the store and saw this kit called "EZ grip -- no tape, no solvent, no vise. Uses our patented 'shrink-wrap' technology". I asked the sales guy about it, and he said he didn't know anyone who had ever used it. He advised me against it. It was $13 for three grips. I figured it couldn't be any worse than the conventional method, so I bought a pack.
The trouble was, all three grips came in one sealed pouch, and it said you have to use them all immediately once you open it, because the shrinking starts right away. That meant I had to strip the old grips off two more irons, and *that* meant that if I couldn't get this to work, I'd be without those irons until I could find someone to do it.
Oh well. Who needs irons anyway?
So I stripped the old grips off the 7 and 9 (I'd already been experimenting with the 5) and cut open the pouch. The EZ grips were coated in some slimy stuff. I followed the instructions, which said to put the grip on the shaft and *push* it down slowly until it was all the way on. This turned out to be easy, because the grips were quite large at this point. One, two, three, all of them slid on effortlessly.
Step two: place the clubs leaning vertically against a wall or something. Wait 24 hours. Well, it's only been4 hours now, but they've already contracted visibly. I'll let you know how they seem in a day or so, but so far I'm impressed.
) Good on ya for finding a solution that worked.
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