Hot Melt for gold tips???

[Bullfrog 1]

I know the whole heat and carbon thing but hate inserts to pull out. I use a 24 hour epoxy and prep the shafts but it is such a timely process. Anyone use hot melt for them?  Thanks.   BILL

[karrow]

thats all ive ever used works great

[BWD]

Yep, works just fine. Just don't apply heat directly to the shaft. Get my hot melt from Big Jim.

[Pat B.]

Go to Big Jims web site, he has a tutorial on using hot melt with carbon shafts.. Works very well, it all I use now..

Except on my stumpin' arrows, I use epoxy on them after loosing a point or two in stumps....

[Gdpolk]

I use hot melt on mine.  I foot with epoxy but use hot melt on the inserts so I can heat them up and align my broadheads easily.

[xtrema312]

I just use hot melt.  I use a rat tail file to rough up the inside.  GT's are about the slickest inside of any shaft.  You can clean them inside after that, but I just blow them out and glue them up. I use feral-tite. Sometimes on a real hard hit I will have one back out a little, but that is about it.  Easy to change out when needed for cutting or replacing bent ones.

[Wheels2]

I use hot melt but only the Ferr-L-Tite low temp, blue stick.  holds as well as epoxy and to remove or replace an isert, you heat a tip, screw it into the arrow and allow the heat of the tip to melt the glue.  Do not apply heat to the carbon arrow shaft directly.

[Tomas]

Hot melt is ok, but remember to clean and prep the shafts.

[Benjy]

Here is a link to Big Jims video on You tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjODkfFXWlw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbWfiWHcYhs

[Kris]

Yes...I absolutely do.  That is all I have ever used for carbons...it allows for flexibility.  I use Kimsha Kwik-Stik.  

You never heat the shaft, only the insert with as heavy of mass field  point screwed into it as you have (I use 300 gr.), the mass of the point conducts into the insert, thereby  releasing it for the inner walls of the carbon shaft.  

Reverse the process to insert by heating hot glue onto your insert then pushing  into you carbon shaft.

Hope this helps -

Kris

I shoot Gold Tips and had problems losing inserts in targets with hot melt. I have tried lots of different glues and have settled on the Bohning Insert Iron. It is heat reversible just like hot melt but seems to work better for me,

Bisch

[Cecil]

I got some hot melt from Big Jim and have not lost any since I switched.

[Fanto]

yes i do i use bohning cool-flex really good results

i use a heatgun with temp dial on it so i don't get everything too hot