Pulling a Stability off a shaft

[finchi5]

Just had an interesting question from a guy asking if I you can pull a stability shaft off the steel shaft and refit to another putter. I know the manufacturer doesn’t recommend pulling the stability off due to multilayers of material but it would be great to be able to transfer it from

One club to another especially at that price.

[03trdblack]

It's actually really easy if you take your time. The easiest way I've done it is to heat up a metal rod until it's red hot and stick it up inside the steel tip. Let it sit inside for a bit and then you can usually pull off the steel shaft from the Graphite tube. If it won't budge then repeat a few times until it's free.

[finchi5]

I have a rod suitable so I was thinking that just didn’t want to cook the graphite

[jblough99]

Possibly another option would be to just heat the existing metal shaft that is still attached to the head, heat well below the stability adapter and let the heat transfer up the shaft. Wouldnt really matter if you damage/discolor the shaft "stem" as it would need pulled from the head and a new steel shaft installed anyhow to use the existing putter.

[finchi5]

All sorted! Worked a treat

 

[SizzFractor]

No telling if that would alter the performance though?

[pschmitt712]

I'm in the process of doing this as well.  I got the stability shaft's tip out of the stability shaft, but the normal putter shaft won't come out of the tip.  Anyone have a trick on how to grip onto that thing hard enough to pull it off without damaging it in the process?

[Phabs]

I’ve never had the balls to pull the steel shaft tip out of the coupler.  I’m terrified it’ll kill the feel of the shaft.  I’ve swapped a stability into multiple putters just with the same hosel bore 

[stingera3]

is it possible to do it with a simple heat gun  ? i don't have professional tools. i would like to put if on another putter. I don't getting rid of the normal putter shaft... do you think it would work to heat it carefully ?

Edited September 25, 2021 by stingera3

[5hort5tuff]

Yeah...the company 100% says not to do it so you buy another shaft. 

 

I've used mine on multiple putters. 

[stingera3]

actualy, i pulled it off two days ago and it worked. but for this price it is unbelievable that it is such a hustle. not sure i would buy again.

[5hort5tuff]

I've installed and uninstalled mine multiple times. I don't separate the collar from the shaft. I just remove it all together. 

[olson]

On 9/30/2021 at 4:07 AM, 5hort5tuff said:

I've installed and uninstalled mine multiple times. I don't separate the collar from the shaft. I just remove it all together. 

What's your process about this? I've got the first gen shaft with a chrome tip, I've had some rattle in the collar the last months and want to rebuild it with a black tip.

[5hort5tuff]

The easy part is removing the whole shaft from the hosel.  Remove it like any other shaff.

 

The hard part is removing the steel tip from the joint of the stability shaft. I have removed multiple shafts, but on at least 1 occasion i couldn't separate them without risk of ruining the shaft. 

[mikewohlwend]

On 3/25/2022 at 8:11 PM, 5hort5tuff said:

The easy part is removing the whole shaft from the hosel.  Remove it like any other shaff.

 

The hard part is removing the steel tip from the joint of the stability shaft. I have removed multiple shafts, but on at least 1 occasion i couldn't separate them without risk of ruining the shaft. 

 

I had a buddy ask me about this over the weekend.  Good to see that you can remove it like any other shaft from the head.