Insert glue?

daniel reynolds · August 22, 2015, 08:58:00 PM

What do you guys recommend for gluing inserts in Gold Tips?

Alexander Traditional · August 22, 2015, 09:13:00 PM

I use Big Jim's hot melt.

yeager · August 22, 2015, 09:13:00 PM

I have only use Ferr-L-Tite for years. Easy to use and also makes removal of the insert just as easy if needed.

daniel reynolds · August 22, 2015, 10:18:00 PM

Is that the clear hot melt Alexander?

Orion · August 22, 2015, 10:56:00 PM

I've used hot melts of several different types. Never had a problem.

August 22, 2015, 11:02:00 PM

Big Jim's Quick Stick hot melt. Best insert glue on the planet!!!

It is not clear. It is a yellowish color.

Bisch

Bud B. · August 22, 2015, 11:08:00 PM

I have begun using two part epoxy. It seems to work best for me, but is permanent. I've had good luck with various super glues, but the epoxy allows me some work time to align broadheads if fletching is already glued on and seemd tohold up well with impact on various targets while hunting. I made the switch recently.

Alexander Traditional · August 23, 2015, 05:42:00 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by daniel reynolds:
Is that the clear hot melt Alexander?

No,as Bisch said it's sort of yellow in color. They now sell it in the same formula,but it fits in your glue gun. That's what I'm going to get next time. I use it for all my glue on broadheads also. I've never had one come loose pulling one from targets.

Alexander Traditional · August 23, 2015, 07:02:00 AM

Here's the link to his website and the glue itself.

http://www.shop.bigjimsbowcompany.com/Quick-Stick-Hot-Melt-Glue-QSHMG21443043.htm

kevsuperg · August 23, 2015, 07:19:00 AM

I was skeptical of hot melt on carbons, but have used big Jim's for a little over a month now , been to several 3d shoots and had no problems.
It's also much easier to get an insert out than with other glued.

Doc Nock · August 23, 2015, 08:35:00 AM

Saunders brown stick hot melt is good, too.

This comes up periodically and is a good review.

I worked at a shop and they were so pressed to get arrows cut and out to customers, all they did was cut to length, tap on counter to knock out the black dust and use hot melt.

Their backstop was layers masonite...dangdest stuff to pull arrows from I've used. We had 2 pull outs in the 2 yrs I worked there... and that was within MINUTES of people receiving their just cut arrows and inserts glued in! Go figure!

bulldog18 · August 23, 2015, 12:50:00 PM

Big Jim's hot melt. Great stuff.

Stump73 · August 23, 2015, 02:30:00 PM

BigJim hot melt glue is all I have used for several years now without a problem.

tracker12 · August 23, 2015, 02:33:00 PM

Big Jim Glue

Dorado · August 24, 2015, 10:58:00 AM

I have tried two part epoxy on my GT Trad blems. I've found that it's a bit too brittle. I took a snap shot at a plastic bag blowing in the wind. Arrow when through bag and hit a rock or something hard in the dirt. It came straight back at me, when I checked the arrow the insert was missing. It was as if I never glued it in to begin with.
Hot melt may be a better option. I understand that they make a cooler melting stick now. It should be more flexible so that it won't break off like mine did.

Wheels2 · August 24, 2015, 02:33:00 PM

Ferr-L-Tite low temp, blue stick. Inserts and tips do not come loose but are easily removed if needed.

Doc Nock · August 24, 2015, 02:41:00 PM

Dorado,

I use a type hot melt...probably much like Big Jim's.

I overshot a gator with a rock wall behind it...

Flattened the field point, nock blew out but it did not "blunderbuss" the arrow or the insert loosen...New point and it was A-ok...fwiw...

So that wasn't any "cool melt" type, just hot melt brownish... I've made a puddle on the work bench of it once...it stays somewhat rubbery (?) like the stick... so maybe that helps, eh?

Yellow Dog · August 24, 2015, 03:20:00 PM

Big Jim hot melt. I use the stick with a glue gun and preheat the insert with a small alcohol burner. Best I've found so far and I've tried pretty much everything else without finding anything that would hold up as well.

I used Easton Quick Hit Adhesive for years and stored it in the back corner of the refrigerator until my wife found a nasty old black tube in the fridge and pitched it. Can't find it anywhere now but I believe it was some form of rubberized LocTite