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A heat gun helps a lot, put it on the low setting and warm up the adhesive and it should come right off.

 

I've heard of people soaking the old tape in lighterfluid and literally burning it off, but I've never had the intestinal fortitude (or open space) to try. If you do this, you should try on an old club, because there's a chance you can burn the chrome plating on the shaft.

 

The golfsmith and golfworks double sided tape is usually pretty easy to take off, I don't even have to use a heat gun, it just comes off in a few nice strips and doesn't leave any residue behind.

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I take a torch to anything by titleist (they seem to have the WORST tape for trying to remove) ... just light it on fire and then scrape it off, drop a few drops of solvent on the leftover mess and wipe it right off. You're looking at under 30 seconds a club.

 

If you go a little crazy w/ the torch you could discolour the finish of the shafts, but that's about it ... I've enver had a problem using this method...

 

That being said, this method is messy (as the leftover tape becomes a paste) .. so I only do it when dealing with real PITA tape.

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On 4/6/2006 at 3:38 AM, NWILLIAMS said:

I take a torch to anything by titleist (they seem to have the WORST tape for trying to remove) ... just light it on fire and then scrape it off, drop a few drops of solvent on the leftover mess and wipe it right off. You're looking at under 30 seconds a club.

 

If you go a little crazy w/ the torch you could discolour the finish of the shafts, but that's about it ... I've enver had a problem using this method...

 

That being said, this method is messy (as the leftover tape becomes a paste) .. so I only do it when dealing with real PITA tape.

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Heat gun for sure. Makes it so much easier. 

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Heat gun all the way.   Sooo much easier.  Try it once and you’ll see why so many are recommending.  

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On 4/5/2006 at 3:22 PM, taylormadefan said:

A heat gun helps a lot, put it on the low setting and warm up the adhesive and it should come right off.

 

I've heard of people soaking the old tape in lighterfluid and literally burning it off, but I've never had the intestinal fortitude (or open space) to try. If you do this, you should try on an old club, because there's a chance you can burn the chrome plating on the shaft.

 

The golfsmith and golfworks double sided tape is usually pretty easy to take off, I don't even have to use a heat gun, it just comes off in a few nice strips and doesn't leave any residue behind.

I highly endorse the Heat Gun. They can be had for $20 (for a decent one). It just works. 

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On 4/5/2006 at 5:18 PM, bpalmer21 said:

I have been doing my own grips for a long time, but always have a hard time getting the old tape off.

 

I use 3 wraps of tape, so it can be a PITA...

 

What do you guys do to make it easier, thanks in advance.

On steel shafts, the blowtorch gets the tape hot in a few seconds max and I can usually get the tape off in a few additional seconds. 

 

On my wife's graphite shafts, I use the heat gun and the tape remover tool I got from Golf Galaxy.  It's not great, but it works well enough.

 

It's a lot easier if I'm trying to reuse a grip, because the solvent + heat = fast removal either way.

 

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I switched to air installation, so I never have to do it again.

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