| From: Matt
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| Date: 13-Jan-21 |
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This seems so simple, but I don’t know the answer. When you’re tuning arrows and you’re in the process of gradually shortening the arrow to stiffen it’s dynamic spine, how do you do that with glue-in inserts on carbon shafts? If you’re bare-shafting, you can shorten from the nock end, but if you’re pairing with a fletched arrow of the same length, you have to cut the fletched arrow from the tip, lest you get too close to the fletchings. But the insert is glued in. If you don’t glue it, the tip stays in the target.
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| From: Orion
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| Date: 13-Jan-21 |
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Yep. That's pretty much the case. Can use a hot melt glue for the inserts. A pain, but they are removable. Some folks take plumbers/thread tape and wrap that around the insert before pushing it into the shaft. That's sometimes enough to keep it from pulling out.
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| From: fdp
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| Date: 13-Jan-21 |
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I go the plumbers tape or plastic wrap route.
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| From: TB
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| Date: 13-Jan-21 |
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Use the blue low temp. melt glue. Just heat up the field point, put it in the insert, wait a few seconds and it will pull right out.
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| From: The Whittler
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| Date: 13-Jan-21 |
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Big Jim's hot melt. Easy to use and holds great and you can remove the insert easy with heat. He has a video on it also.
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| From: GF
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| Date: 13-Jan-21 |
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I just used the blue hotmelt for the first time the other night, and BOY, is it easy to use.
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| From: nock nock
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| Date: 13-Jan-21 |
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remove the knock cut the arrow put the knock back in.
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| From: Matt
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| Date: 14-Jan-21 |
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Hot melt! It’s not just for sandwiches. I’ll give it a try. Thanks fellas.
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| From: deerhunt51
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| Date: 14-Jan-21 |
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Blue glue stick and only heat insert hot enough to melt glue, then cool with water.
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| From: opr8r
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| Date: 14-Jan-21 |
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Big Jim’s hot melt...do not put the heat directly on the shaft.
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| From: Shakey Jake
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| Date: 14-Jan-21 |
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Blue glue Hot water to remove from arrow. Flame to put glue on insert. Heat only the inset
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| From: Bowmania
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| Date: 14-Jan-21 |
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I don't like heating carbon more than once. Yea, you can tell me you've never had a problem, but you will before I do. ARROWS ARE EXPENSIVE.
I use cellophane and a bag target. One wrap of cellophane makes it snug enough for a bag target although I wouldn't shoot into excelsor.
Bowmania
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| From: NY Yankee
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| Date: 14-Jan-21 |
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This is one reason I dislike carbon shafting.
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| From: northerner
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| Date: 14-Jan-21 |
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I do the same as Bowmania. I have a bag target I made by stuffing a doubled up burlap bag with any plastic bags or sheet plastic I can get. I pack the burlap bag so it looks like a very thick pillow. The cost is under $2 for a burlap bag and the plastic is free. You can zig-zap a string through the open top with a yarn needle. Use cellophane or light tape to wrap around the insert to hold it on. If the tip pulls off in the bag, just pull out the string, reach inside and get it out.
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| From: Steve P
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| Date: 14-Jan-21 |
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Plastic/cellophane works well with bag target. These days I don't cut a lot of shafting, but if I need to, hot melt glue and remove with hot water.
Bowmania, do you believe the hot water removal affects the integrity of the shaft?
Steve
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| From: marco
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| Date: 17-Jan-21 |
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I have always used hot melt with an insert tool. To remove an insert easily, screw in the tool, put tension on between the tool handle and the arrow shaft with your hands and heat the tool shaft. Yhe insert will come out before the shaft is heated.
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| From: Car54
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| Date: 17-Jan-21 |
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Big Jim’s hot-melt.
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