Howdy all,
Does anyone have a good method for removing arrow wraps from both carbon and aluminum arrows?Love this forum, have learned alot. Thanks!

heat them up with a hair-dryer and peel them off.

eze crest makes a utility blade for utility knives that has grooves cut in it so youll not take off any of the cabon...

Just dip the wrap end in hot water for a few seconds and they peel off easily.

I've tried just about everything to get wraps off...some of the above may work for you,think it depends on the wraps & were ya got em as some have a different adhesive on them....the only thing I've found that works on all of em is to take a sharp knife & cut down the shaft the length of the wrap & use your knife blade to raise the edge & them peel it off....then I use some good old Goo-Gone from Walmart to take any remaining adhesive off...

I just take a cigarete lighter and it makes them a soft as butter and easy to peel off.Then I wipe them down wipe alcohol to clean off the residue.

you can heat them over the stove and peel it back
not to close stay 12" or 15" up,don't burn them

It may just be the wraps I have but if you try to take the residue off with alcohol you'll be wiping for a long time cause it won't take it off....lol

I just boil water and dip em in one at a time and then start peeling, it's not fun but thats the only way I've been able to get them off.

I use steam from a kettle on the stove the same way I remove feathers, it dont take long and they peel right off.

Terry

like the two above...except I just use hot tap water....all you really need to do it heat the adhesive, but I've found the water helps to remove the adhesive with the wrap rather then leaving it on the shaft.  oh, and bluegrass.  are you using denatured alc or isopropyl?  I've used both denatured alcohol and acetone and both work well.  I use the acetone mostly to remove the manufacturers label (what CX recommends on their site), but it'll clean adhesive and oil residues as well.

All you using hot water is that with the feathers on? When I have feathers on I have to scrape them with a utility knife and use goo gone to clean them up. Hot water does nothing whenm they have feathers on. At least for me.

Mike

I fought removing wraps for a long time.
 Then I saw on another forum "potatoe peeler" life is good, just clean the residue out every so often and wipe the shafts down with laquer thinner after and your good to go.

                   Pat

feathers on or off, doesn't seem to matter to me.  maybe its just the materials I've used.  but most of the commercial wraps are 3m or avery cast vinyl self adhesive....so there really shouldn't be that much variation in adhesives.

I guess it could depend on the shaft material and prep as well.  I using CX carbon shafts, and as said before always wipe down with acetone or den. alcohol before application.

QuoteOriginally posted by hickstick:
  but most of the commercial wraps are 3m or avery cast vinyl self adhesive....so there really shouldn't be that much variation in adhesives.

I've got 2 different wraps from 2 different places & I know there's quite abit of difference in them....denatured alcohol will take the residue off one & your wasting your time trying it on the other...

I fill a glass bottle with acetone, pull the nocks out of my carbons, cut the bulk of the feathers off, then stand the shafts up in the bottle for about 10 minutes.  If you cut a strip off the wrap on each side (think potatoe peeler), in 10 minutes the wrap has come loose and settling to the botton of the bottle.  Then, I just wipe the remaining residue off the shaft.
Here is my disclaimer..Try this at your own risk.  I have heard this can effect the shaft although I have not seen any ill effects on my CE carbons.  The acetone will remove paint though so keep it off the labels if you want to keep them!

I tried the boiling water and it didn't work on my wraps.  Denatured alcohol didn't help much either.  I can do about 6-8 shafts at a time in 15 minutes with a lipton iced tea bottle and some acetone.  I'll do 2-3 dozen shafts before needing to change the acetone (buy it by the gallon).  Just put the top on (metal top) and set it aside until you are ready to refletch again.