removing epoxy from shaft tip

[Golf Pig]

The epoxy is in the tip end of the shaft near the head. If a builder used way too much epoxy it might be up the shaft longer than your drill bit can reach to punch through. In that case drilling from the butt end might be necessary. The 6" bits I mentioned above have always been plenty long enough.

[Ger21]

Try at your own risk, but I've found that you can use a hammer and punch to remove the epoxy from the tip of graphite shafts. The inside of the shaft  is very smooth, and the epoxy does not bond well to it. I've removed3"-4" of epoxy this way, but you need to hit it fairly hard when it's that long. All my current iron shafts had ±3" in them, and I punched them all out. THey come out as perfectly smooth plugs.

No ill affects after 2 years of playing them.

[Hot Rod 71]

On 8/15/2022 at 4:26 PM, dlovage said:

Long bump here but I have to echo the confusion around anything having to do with the butt end of the shaft. Is the epoxy plug or build up not just in the distal (end) tip of the shaft near the head? I'm confused why someone posted a massively long drill bit and someone else was talking about entering through the grip hole??

Distal end, huh? You must have some medical background. 😉

 

Without going back and reading every comment, I think what is being discussed is drilling out old epoxy from a graphite shaft tip.  Sometimes when the cub is built and too much epoxy is used, it will extend into the shaft and further up toward the grip than normal.  We're talking an inch or two, max. Nothing crazy.  However, a standard drill bit may not be long enough to clear it out, so a longer one may be necessary.  The inside diameter of a graphite shaft is much smaller than a steel shaft so an extra epoxy will rise higher up the shaft in graphite over steel. 

 

One issue that can occur with removing heads from graphite shafts is the remaining epoxy plug can break loose and move up and down the shaft.  The best way I have found to prevent this is to let the plug cool and then drill it out.  Otherwise you will need to remove it through the distal end 😜.

[ignitewvu]

You want to attack this as SOON as you pull the head from the shaft (while the epoxy is warm).  You should be able to push it towards the but end with a punch or a drill bit.

Drilling this can get a little hairy as if your angle isn't good & the epoxy is hard you can drill right into the tip & not even know till it's too late.

 

I have no clue what the post talking about drilling from the butt end was all about thats not only impossible it's dumb.

[J13]

Echo the above, do it as soon as the head is pulled and if need be grab a 12" drill bit.  Makes easy work of it plus you can make sure the shaft isn't clogged higher in the shaft for reinstall.  Nothing worse than putting a head on a pulled shaft only to have air push it back.

[Ri_Redneck]

I keep a 4" piece of STRAIGHT metal coathanger on my bench for this. With the grip removed, drill about 1/2" of the epoxy out of the tip, place the b u t t end of the shaft on the floor with the tip pointing at the ceiling, insert the coathanger piece in the tip and tap with a hammer. All of the epoxy should fall out the b u t t end of the shaft. Done this a thousand times.

 

BT