Golf Club Repair – Pulling a graphite shaft

A customer from West Virginia brought some Artisan Irons with MMT shafts and wanted them replaced with AXIOM shafts from Fujikura. We talk about the different types of pullers and techniques to pull a graphite shaft properly. making it ready for a new shaft install

we have a boutique Club in the house it’s from Texas the club is and we are going to pull some graphite shafts from it this is going to be how to pull a graphite shaft and if you stick around a little bit we’re going to show you how to put them back in all next on boxes to builds at MC [Music] golf welcome to the golf shop Jim mclear here and this is where we do golf club repair Golf Club reviews and golf club fittings also your scores can go low if you would like subscribe hit that stuff across the bottom and that way you get more of this information when we launch videos also we have a YouTube live stream it also is on Facebook and x and Linkedin and it’s what called what’s my doors golf talk it’s the same exact stuff only live happens on Mondays happens on 5:30 at the east coast and 17:30 for those of you across the pond all righty so what do we have we have a group of heads that are from Artisan Artisan golf all right Artisan golf is out of Texas now I’ve heard of these guys before but I not until recently did they surface as far as being to my attention Okay back in the day when Nike was a thing uh they had what was called the oven the oven was the testing facility for Nike or Nike as the case you want to call it just like everybody else had their testing facility Callaway has the elely center uh Taylor Maid has the kingdom all this stuff they had the oven well Nike went under and Two Fellas decided that was a really good place to set up shop I believe it is and they started Artisan Golf Now Artis golf offers three right-handed only models in irons basically your blade your what I would call a a uh a cavity muscle back or a shallow cavity and then a cavity back club now all of these are in a players what I would call a player shape they all have very little offset on them they have what in this one being the cavity back all right this one being the cavity back has a what I would say a not a narrow but it’s certainly not any more than average in width has very little offset as we talked about the the face is very very I won’t say small but the it is at Players Club to be sure and if you look it is a shallow cavity making it that players cavity all right The Lofts on all of these clubs are all the same so there’s not one that gets stronger or gets weaker as the case may be they’re all the same okay they also have a fitting session that you can go through which I would recommend recommend highly as far go at least getting go fit I wouldn’t necessarily go all the way down to Texas to go get fit but if you’re down that neck of the woods maybe they can do you right that’s up to you okay uh so what we’re going to do is these are actually for a repeat customer from West Virginia and we are going to take out a set of the mmts and we are going to put in a set of axtion axioms okay uh we’ve done this before and the cool thing about axioms is it’s a fujiura product and it what it does it is sold in the long irons the mid irons and the short irons now they only come in a 370 tip oh no they come in a 370 tip that means they won’t go into most of these irons wrong answer the tip section on this thing is thick okay it is very very thick right there and and what they tell you is that on the website that you can cone these things so that it would fit into a taper tipped hosle so unless you’re really not skilled in that particular area then you can either re them out or send them to somebody that can do that kind of stuff and that’s what’s happening here so if we take a look at this the The Artisan has this humongous feral on it that’s not going to happen again and and we’re going to take this feral off and then we’re going to pull it on the shaft puller to show you how to pull a graphite shaft and then what we are going to do uh we’re going to install it now whether we put at the end of this one or make it another one you’ll see at the end so stay with us and let’s go to the bench 12 seconds later all right so we’re going to use a shaft puller to pull the graphite shafts now if it was a steel shaft you probably just heat it up and get a good hold on it and twist the thing off and nobody be the wiser however with graphite graphite is a lot of times is wrapped around a mandrel and you have this a grain that’s in a graphite shaft it kind of tends to want to do that sometimes it layers around not all the time but it tends to have layers and Grains so when you go to twist it off you have a real tendency to take and go against those grains and and open it up and it basically Destro always the tip now I know there’s videos out there where there’s some guys and they’re pulling heads and they’ve done it forever and honestly that’s just pure luck and because of knowing how this shaft is made now it’s all in the application of heat you get this thing cherry red and it doesn’t matter what’s in there it’s all going to melt the idea here is just to get enough heat onto this club onto the apoy to break that Bond and not get into the golf shaft itself because the these fibers are held together with epoxy as well so you don’t want to get it so hot that these things come a uh apart so that you don’t you can’t use the shaft anymore there’s the real trick all right so shaft pullers there are several types of shaft pullers there are hydraulic shaft pullers there’s spring shaft pullers and there is what I would call leverage shaft pullers this one’s a hydraulic I think it’s the easiest one to use there are several designs and before you ask me no they do not make this one anymore it is old like me and is still a Workhorse hopefully it’s still like me now the uh spring loaded ones you’ll see that they’re basically it’s a clamp that you put the golf club in and you hold that and it’s clamp the shaft is held in Sp in space and then you squeeze this spring and you get it behind the head and then you heat it up and the spring pressure will push it out now there are other things that will do that but and it’s the most basic of tools so if you’re only going to pull one two three shafts ever then that’s probably the way to go it’s time consuming but it’s for the investment fine now there’s another one there’s what I would call a screw type and that is a lot of very it was very popular on the Tour Vans and what it was it was a instead of having this you had a handle that had this screw mechanism that would push this unit this way it was is very easy to use now there’s another one made uh called reverse thrust by golf mechanics I think it would work just fine in the same application the last one is a lever action and what it is it it depends on just like if you’re throwing torque on a bolt the farther out you get the easier it is to pull Golf Works makes that one and it has an articulation in it where you have about a 3ft or a 4ft bar and you just pull on it and it just forces it out whatever fits your application as long as it’s getting it off there not a problem now one more I failed to mention was Mitchell Mitchell makes a shaft puller and is also the screw type in the past it only had about a 2 in or 2 and 1/2 in grip section which made it kind of hard to do on tougher pulls but it was still a quality unit all right so let’s get P let’s get in pulling this so what do you need you need a knife and you need some heat okay again this is a very specific application of heat so we’re using the butane torch uh what is it burn burnomatic and what we’re going to do is we’re going to take off this feral and we’re going to take this monster feral off of here and again we really don’t need to you do a lot maybe you know 15 20 seconds maybe a little bit more since it’s a monster feral you see it’s starting to Bubble a little bit okay we’re going to lay this just just down on it and then pull back as you can see it’s already starting to pull back and the whole idea is we’re Mis making room so that this my my puller will be able to get in between these two pieces and then we can pull this off later okay so we got that so now what do we do about 1 minute and 20 second applications around the perimeter of the hosle so okay that was that I’m going to give it just a few more CU I’m going to talk about this here in a minute okay I have some painted uh press in here and what you want to do is stay away from that you don’t want to put the heat right to that particular point for fear of burning the paint so you want to start on each side and get to that 360° all right we’re in there let’s get this thing going there we go there it comes now the real trick here is that we got to clean this thing out really really quick so we can use the heat that we put in here to help get the epoxy out that’s pretty good you see we still have stuff coming out so if we have stuff coming out that means there’s probably some stuff at the bottom yeah there it goes there we go now normally what gives it away is while you’re doing any of this stuff the bottom will get shiny and if it doesn’t that means there’s probably some epoxy in the bottom we need to get all the epoxy out out there we go now it’s all gone now the question of the day does artisan make taper tip or do they make parallel got my new gauge got it from Golf Works and as you can tell there’s numbers around the outside this is 370 and this is the taper tip with the te on it so we got to figure out which one it is it does not fit that one at all and there we go 355 it is so it is a taper tip that’s what they use all righty so we got this one I’m going to do this one’s actually pretty clean there’s one of them it looks like he’s hit a couple of times so I’m going to run it across the wavy wheel just to kind of give it a clean up outside of that one we’re going to uh I’m gonna polish this one real quick all righty so it does have a really nice coating on it I will give them that the reason why I polished it is because I saw some discoloration up here at the tip where we were heating it and I didn’t want it there when we put it together so there we go easy enough to pull it apart right now let’s pull this out there we go now we’re going to take this thing off there we go now we got a we have a good shaft that we can recover for later if we want and it’s all good to go so we’re going to do the other three in very fast motion so stick [Music] along [Music] n [Music] a [Music] he [Music] all right and so that’s pulling the shafts now pulling a graphite Shaft or even pulling any shaft is not just pulling a shaft number one is you’ve got to get rid of the ferals because you don’t leave the ferals on the shaft just because they’re going to be melted and they’re junk and you don’t want to keep them there because it’s going to be work the next time just get it done and get it over with it doesn’t take but a second the other one is is that when you’re all done pulling the shaft you have to you must clean out that hosle clean out that hosle particularly if you’re going to reuse it again and you want to get all the stuff out you you saw me use the drill and that was to bottom out because a lot of epoxy accumulates at the bottom got to use that drill to get it out of there use the wire brush that cleans all the rest of it and then you got your then you got your hosle taken care of now the rest of it is did you use too much heat or not enough or and in this case I think I used just the right amount of heat but it discolored the outside of it just ever so slightly uh it it caught me by surprise that it discolored and it was just a little bit so we polished it because the coating on this thing is actually pretty good and it polished up real fine and it’s gone now if you do that like it happens on pings and other types of you know harder type golf clubs you can just go to a wavy wheel or a polisher and polish that stuff up if you don’t have anything like that than like a chrome polish or a barkeeper friend something that removes verree from maybe a copper all that kind of stuff would tend to work really really good now we got to go on to the installation however what I’m going to do is I’m going to make this kind of a two-parter and we’ll show you what’s done at the end because the installation in of itself is very very important and we’ll talk about that so if you like what you saw hit that like And subscribe tell your friends so we can get more subscribers how about that one for just straightforward always don’t forget about our live stream and let’s see your scores go low