So how do you get HIT inserts out?

[MikeW]

I don't know what these were installed with,probably epoxie.

Boiling water?
Field tip and a torch?

I don't want to cut them..no room left for that.

I read you can just pull the nock and put the new inserts there if I have to but I'm not sure what that will do the spine.

Anyone have any luck or tricks to getting these out?

[MRD]

I've tried it, and had no luck.  The epoxy is permanent and strong.  Heating it enough to loosen the insert ends up damaging the shaft.

I've put the insert in the nock end, and it worked fine.  I just trimmed a little off the length of the nock to get it to seat all the way in.

Mark

[KY..Rob]

I have had pretty good luck getting them out of my MFX arrows.

I put the tips in and heat them on an electric stove and have my vise grips ready and pull them out.

Just make sure you keep the shaft off the heat and just let the point lay on the burner and roll it back and forth, you can smell the epoxy start to cook,  take your nocks out also and you will see a tiny bit of smoke come out the other end.

Then I put some alchol on a Qtip and clean the inside of the shaft before installing my new ones.

Rob

[jacobsladder]

not to hijack the thread...but can these hit inserts be installed with hotmelt.?

[sunny hill archer]

Take the nock out and put in a steel rod about 8 to 10 inches long in the arrow. Point the insert end at the ceiling then bring that end sharply towords the floor. You may have to do it several times but it will eventually come out. I only mess them up if I try to use heat.

[MikeW]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Point the insert end at the ceiling then bring that end sharply towords the floor

Not following you here. Wouldn't the rod just fall out if you have the insert end pointed at the ceiling?

[sunny hill archer]

The idea is to get the inertia of the rod  inside the shaft to hit the back of the insert and knock it out. Hold the shaft at 12 o'clock the swing it sharply down to 5 o'clock.

[BigRonHuntAlot]

Kind of like a slide hammer...

[MikeW]

OK got it...thx

[SL]

Only way I have to recommend is to turn the shaft around. You have to strip the fletching and refletch though. They look abit weird until the writing where off too. I've tried everything else and mostly end up ruining the shaft any other way.
SL

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

Wouldn't it work better to have a rod a bit longer than the arrow, so you could just tap it on th floor?

[JRY309]

I've done the rod sliding down the inside of the arrow shaft and I have also very carefully drilled out the H.I.T. insert,but only the aluminum inserts.

[oddan]

I heat a tip up with a torch, then screw it in real fast and pull stady with vise grips. Keep a cold rag on the outside of the shaft.

[Dawn Patrol]

I put them in with low temp. hot melt and they are easy to remove with a heated field point.

[BroknArrow]

I agree with using low temp hot melt.  I screw in an aluminum BH adapter and heat it with a torch to remove the insert.  Never lost an insert using hot melt.

[Steertalker]

MikeW,

Curious.....why are you wanting to remove the inserts???

Brett