gluing carbon arrow inserts

[Shinken]

I glued a bunch in yesterday with J-B Weld after using my brass cleaning brush inside the shafts, sandpaper on the inserts, and cleaning everything with denatured ethanol.

They are ready to shoot today!

Shoot straight, Shinken

 

[TOEJAMMER]

Ditto on low temp hot melt and with the same results as Bowmarks.

[illianabowhntr67]

I use a bore brush,clean with denatured alcohal and j.b.weld them never had one come out.

[Yolla Bolly]

I have had a lot of inserts "pop" out when using epoxy and a stump turns out to be a lot harder than it appeared when I shot.  A switch to the Quik Stik that Mookie suggested seems to have fixed the problem---I think it is flexible enough to allow the carbon tube to expand under impact without breaking the bond.

[Bear Heart]

I have tried gorilla glue on my arrows before.  It holds pretty good at first but eventually becomes brittle.  One good hit and you next arrow pull finds you sans a point and insert.
I did a few up with low temp hot melt and good arrow prep as described by many on this thread.  I will test them out and see how it goes.
If hot melt doesn't hold up I will go to the long setup epoxy.

[Rob DiStefano]

there is NO comparison to using a quality slow set epoxy for inserts.  prep the insert and shaft properly, use good goop, and those inserts will NEVER come out, which is what you want.