So can you us hot melt glue for carbons if you don't heat the shaft just the insert with the glue hot and apply into the shaft? Reason I ask is that I used some Smooth On epoxy for my inserts and have had a couple kick out a little with hard hits. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Allan
The beauty of inserts is to be able to use them over again if necessary. I have used hot melt on carbons a few years ago (Carbonwoods) and it worked fine. Every now and then you pop one loose with a hard hit, but you can glue it again.
It doesn't take much heat to melt hotmelt, just use enough to get the job done and you will be fine.
I'll only use hot melt for the same reasons George stated. I don't care if I lose a head every now & again. But I sure like the ability to remove the insert easily if needed with out destroying the shaft with too much heat...Doc
You can use hot melt on carbons. I have for probably the last 10 years.
Do Not just heat the insert alone...
screw in a field point and heat only the field point.
use the search function on here for holt melt on carbons and it will give u some good pointers on how to do it.
I've been using hotmelt on carbon since I shot the old Beman Hunters back in '93. No problems so far.
I use it too. I do as everyone else and heat the point. Once inserted though I stick the tip in a bottle of water to disipate the heat. Brass inserts stay hot a long time and heat is what messes with carbon. I don't know if that makes a difference or not but it can't hurt and I do it every time. Mine hold fine.
I forgot to mention what westtnman suggested.
I have an old flower vase full of water, as soon as i'm done mounting, it goes straight in the water and stays there until I have completed all the arrows.
after that, any excess glue that was sqeezed out can very easily be peeled off of the insert/point with your fingers.