When footing carbons with aluminum footing what 's a good length 4 or 5 inches or longer and what epoxy do you use for gluing them on with.
Anyone knows the size that fits a CX 250......stabow
I did find out that a 2114 would fit a CX 250 but need to apply before the insert is applied or it won't slide over......stabow
I do 1.5" and use JB weld.
Benny
Justed (torture) tested out some this morning on a 30 target course. 2" of lap (but a little different story for me as I use an additional 2" to lengthen my arrow, and a cut piece of carbon shaft riding between my full length shaft and the aluminum insert). Glued up with Powerbond. I lost one in a repaired foam target - that repair material is brutal.... and bulged one on a steel drum - thanks Brent for putting that image in my head. I use 2216's on Heritage 250's. My prep work may have not have been stellar on these. I usually like GoatTuff for my glueing. I don't like the "mess" of JB Weld.
Ya only want the footing to be a bit longer if any than the regular insert or else you just move the breaking point farther back. I use 1.5"s. Shawn
I know what you are saying Shawn, but my failures on plain carbon shafts are "mushrooming" and "end splits". We hunt a few rocks around here....lol.
Bob
I did a few today on my CX 90 I used 2114 1.5 '' long and use beyond bond to glue them to the shaft will see how that works......stabow
I just do enough to keep the ends from splitting. My footings were 1" but I'm now experimenting with 3/4" and haven't had any problems yet.
Ray ;)
I'm with Ray on this one. It just seems to me that the whole idea of the footing is to stop splitting and mushrooming so a footing of an inch or less is good enough.