When using the built in screw-in model broadheads what do you guys do,if anything, if the threads of the shank were to get stripped or banged up? Do you just chalk it up as a lose or fix it.
When that happens to adapters or field points I just toss it not knowing an remedy.
What say you?
Never had that problem. Guess if I did I'd throw em in the reject draw, don't hardly throw anything away, figure I might use it for something some day.
Buy a thread file or a tap to chase the threads.LCH
If they are just buggered a bit, you can chase them with a die, 8-32 is std. If stripped, you are SOL. When using alum threads on both ends, be sure to use some sort of thread lube; string wax works well. Alum threads can gall up with each other and you won't get them apart.
I'm with Fletcher. Just run an 8-32 button die over the threads. I use Muzzy Phantoms, and to toss them for the sake of a buggered thread is kind of expensive.
Looks like the guys beat me to it, but I was just going to tell you to talk with a local machinist or machine shop. You know, someone had to BUILD that threaded head/insert, it ain't no trick to FIX one.
I can't believe somebody would throw away one of the "super duper" new type broadheads (that cost an arm and a leg and part of your forehead) just for a dinged up thread....but then I still save scraps of wire because they "might come in useful" sometime...
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x2 on chasing the threads, its easy and your not tossing an expensive bh.
Never had a steel broadhead get buggered up by an aluminum insert, not sure as I've ever heard of one either. Had aluminum adapters strip/rethread but just heated and pulled them then installed a new adapter. I would think a steel broadhead that gets messed up by aluminum would get sold/traded quickly out of my gear.
I'm with JC, if it was the last broadhead on earth may go through all that hassel. I'm assuming you have more than one, toss it.
I just put them in with string wax as a tightener / thread lube and have never had a steel broadhead messed up by any insert. I have had a few inserts messed up when I hit a bone on the way thru an animal and had to either replace the arrow or the insert.