Equipment
How to remove an OEM adjustable sleeve for later use
Most golf equipment companies offer metal woods with adjustable features that allow golfers to change the loft, lie and face angle of the clubs. These clubs are made to be easy to adjust, but there are hurdles for golfers who wish to change the shaft of an adjustable club.
All of the current metal woods on the market that offer loft and face angle adjustability do so through an adapter or sleeve that is called an “adjustable tip.” So if golfers want to change the shaft of their adjustable clubs, they need to do one of two things:
- Buy another adjustable tip and install it on the new shaft.
- Remove the adjustable tip from the old shaft and install it on the new one.
Buying another adjustable tip is the best plan of action for golfers who want to try a new shaft, because it will allow them to compare the results of the shafts quickly and easily. But they’re not as cheap as many golfers might think — most OEM adjustable tips sell for between $25 and $40 each.
That’s why a lot of golfers, especially those who know the current shaft in their adjustable club isn’t right for them, might prefer to save the money and have their old adjustable tip put on their new shaft.
But removing an adjustable tip can be difficult due largely to the fact that the ferrule (on which most OEM’s print the loft adjustments) on can be ruined ruined in the process. That’s why I am going to share with you one method that I have found to work very well.
Supplies Needed
- Club Shield Paste (Jelly like substance that prevents burn marks)
- Small washers and a small screw
- Shaft extractor
- Bore Brush
- Torch or Heat Gun
- Small Strip of Cotton
Prep
Apply the Club Shield Paste all around the ferrule. Place the washers on the small screw, and thread them into the tip of the sleeve. Secure your shaft in the shaft extractor. Take the small strip of cotton and soak it in some water and then wrap it around the ferrule. The club shield paste and wet cotton strip will protect the ferrule from heating up and getting damaged.
Step 1
Position the shaft extractor firmly against the washers to start just as you would to the head of a club for typical removal.
Step 2
Apply heat to soften the epoxy and slowly apply pressure to the washers as you would when removing a club head (patience is the key for success). Slowly continue repeating this process. After a few applications, the adjustable tip will start to slide off the shaft. When there is enough room between the tip and the ferrule, reposition the shaft extractor to the top of the tip and continue to remove.
Step 3
Once the tip is off, clean the inside of it with your hosel brush. It is best to do so while the epoxy is still heated and soft.
Step 4
Remove the cotton strip and slide off the ferrule. Note: You may want to clean up your tip and ferrule before installing it onto the new shaft.
There are many ways to skin a cat. This process has yielded the best results for me. Take your time and you will be able to save most tips through this process.
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- Wesley Bryan what’s in the bag accurate as of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson.
Driver: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Max (9 degrees @10)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana GT 50 TX
3-wood: TaylorMade Stealth Plus (15 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana GT 60 X
Hybrid: TaylorMade Stealth 2 Plus Rescue (19.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus HB Blue 8 X
Irons: Titleist T200 (4), Takomo 101U (4), Takomo 101T (5), Takomo 301 CB (6-9)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (46-10F, 52-08F, 56-14F), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks Proto (58-A)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: L.A.B. Golf DF3
Grips: SuperStroke, Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
More photos of Wesley Bryan’s WITB in the forums.
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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a piece our Andrew Tursky originally wrote for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. Head over there for the full article.
…Flash forward to THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson 2024 at TPC Craig Ranch in Texas, and Bryan is still playing with a mixed Takomo set, except he’s added a new 101 U 4-iron, plus a Titleist T200 4-iron, and he’s dropping his 5-iron.
That bears repeating: Bryan is switching to an iron setup that consists of two 4-irons and no 5-iron.
On paper, that looks wrong, but when you look at yardage gapping instead of the number on the sole of the iron, things start to make more sense.
As Bryan explained to GolfWRX.com on Tuesday in Texas, his Takomo 301 CB 6-iron goes about 195-200 yards. Then, his new hollow-bodied Takomo 101U Driving Iron, which he recently started testing “a couple weeks ago” and bent about 2 degrees weak, goes about 220 yards, and the Titleist T200 4-iron goes about 235 yards.
Speaking on his new Takomo 101U Driving Iron, which sells for $119, Bryan had this to say:
“It’s super forgiving and launches high, and it has a bit longer of a profile to where it looks really good,” said Bryan. “If people are willing to play something that doesn’t have an expensive price tag on their club…[I started testing it] in the last couple weeks and it’s in the bag.
“I just made it like 2 degrees weaker. Basically that gap from 205 to 225 I was in a little bit of a dead space, so I’m going to try and fill that gap better.”
Check out Wesley Bryan’s full WITB here.
Read the rest of the article at PGATour.com.
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In our forums, our members have been discussing players irons. WRXer ‘NorthTXGolf’ is on the hunt for some new irons but is putting a priority on forgiveness, and has reached out to fellow members who have been sharing their thoughts and advice on the subject in our forum.
Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.
- Sam217: “i230 has got to be one of the most forgiving players irons available. Cobra King Tour another. Don’t sleep on the New Level 480 DB coming out soon.”
- RangeBaller: “ZX5/ZX7 and i230 should definitely be in your testing pool.”
- YAMS49: “Another I210 homie here… Very highly recommended if you want/need spin and a consistent yardage.”
- golf-RN: “I second the Cobra King Tour irons. I am not the greatest ballstriker by any stretch of the imagination and I find the King Tours very forgiving. Toe strikes might lose 5 or 6 yards with no directional loss. You definitely feel the miss though lol but mishits from the center aren’t punished too hard regarding distance.”
Entire Thread: “Most forgiving Players irons? – GolfWRXers discuss”
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May 15, 2014 at 3:24 am
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Golfer X
Sep 6, 2013 at 8:14 pm
You young guys have it way too easy. In my day, we played golf with the VC shooting at us. No time to waggle…
Regis Staley
Sep 5, 2013 at 9:00 pm
I’ve probably removed and re-used 20-30 tip adaptors. Mostly TM .Best result I’ve achieved is to use a torch and focus the flame on the very tip- The more pinpoint the better. The heat migrates up the adaptor at a reduced intensity. I can get sufficient epoxy breakup in less than a minute. Then if necessary Golfsmith or Billy Bobs sells just the plastic collar for about $4. You can either melt or cut off the damaged collar.
Freddy V.
Sep 5, 2013 at 9:58 pm
Seriously…spend the 20-30 bucks for a new TM tip or another 5 for a new ferrule. Trying to save the plastic tips are a waste of time and NEVER come off without damage in some form to the plastic. Stores don’t do it for 2 reasons. 1 the chance of pulling it cleanly is slim to none and if they gaurantee they can do it, they are on the hook for damage. 2. It takes more time to do and costs almost the same as a new tip. Kind of like paying 3-5 bucks to save a grip when it cost that much for a new grip. Don’t let this article fool you into thinking it is a flawless process. The plastic always gets damage on a TM tip because the plastic melts at a lower temp than the epoxy used by TM. Goodluck regardless.
Cody_gateway
Aug 14, 2014 at 1:43 pm
Freddy V sounds like the type of person with no patience. this tip worked out great don’t let this hot head tell you otherwise
Linkerpan
Sep 5, 2013 at 12:34 am
Both Golf Galaxy and Golfsmith have ruined the adaptor on my Callaway. The lesson I learned is that if you buy a new shaft, you buy a new adapter. I hope all store managers print this article and quiz the employees later.
cha4218
Sep 5, 2013 at 9:18 am
I guess it all depends on who is working on it. I recently had the adaptor for my Nike Covert Tour taken out and installed in another shaft. A guy named Tom (Paramous, NJ) did a killer job on it. I couldn’t thank him enough. Kudos to him at Golf Galaxy.
Ross Bailey
Sep 4, 2013 at 5:49 pm
I would recommend using a heat gun and not an open flame to get the
adaptor hot enough to remove. The rest of the sequence is great.
Ga
Sep 4, 2013 at 5:27 pm
9 out of 10, that plastic degree sleeve gets melted. They should just make it out of aluminum. I don’t understand why they didn’t.
Chester
Sep 4, 2013 at 1:46 pm
I work at a golf store, and run the club tech department. I’ve found that heat gun is much more tip friendly when it comes to saving the plastic ferrule on the TM adaptors, although I do cover the plastic with heat shield as well. I recommend pointing the heat gun away from the ferrule, and towards the tip to avoid melting the ferrule at all. The tips that are first time pulls from the manufacturers are much easier pull, than 2nd time installs that potentially use stronger bonding glue. Great article though.
Kadin Mahmet
Sep 4, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Thank You! I agree first time pulls are much easier.
Mo
Sep 5, 2013 at 3:28 am
That’s not necessarily true. It also depends on the kind of epoxy used and how much of it got to seal up the very top of the adaptor. For example, if, in this case of the TM adaptor, if the adaptor is fairly stuck on with a lot of hardened, strong epoxy near the top, no amount of heat shield or wrapping is going to break the bond of the epoxy enough to be able to pull that thing off safely without melting the numbers on the plastic, let alone the plastic itself.
It all depends on the amount of epoxy, what kind of epoxy and how much of the hard epoxy was used to make the shaft really hold firm inside the adaptor.
At some point the adaptors will become cheap enough like ferrules, as this is where everything is headed, and, they will also have figured out a way to do away with the plastic so we don’t keep ruining these things.
Mateo
Sep 4, 2013 at 12:11 pm
Not bad. You should never use a blowtorch though. Use a heat gun to avoid damaging the tip. The tip that was pulled is not the same as the tip in the final picture. You can see the damage to the paint in the second to last picture. Looks like he pulled the old switcharoo.
🙂
leif
Sep 4, 2013 at 1:09 pm
Actually, that is the Hear Shield residue still on the tip after it dried…just need to wet it down and wipe it off.
leif
Sep 4, 2013 at 1:10 pm
Heat Shield…sorry.
Joe Golfer
Sep 5, 2013 at 12:08 am
Yes, I think Golfworks.com sells that stuff to protect hosels and such that are painted, so I can see why it would be used here.
If using a torch, use Butane and not Propane, as butane burns at a lower temperature.
A heat gun will work, but it sometimes seems like it takes forever to get the job done. And some epoxies simply won’t break down with a heat gun, so then you wind up resorting to the torch anyway.
Mateo
Sep 4, 2013 at 3:21 pm
Oh. Didn’t think of that. I don’t use heat shield because I’ve never really needed to. 😉
Kadin Mahmet
Sep 4, 2013 at 1:11 pm
Thanks for taking the time to read and post…
This is the tip that was removed…
“Note: You may want to clean up your tip and ferrule before installing it onto the new shaft.”
I see now that it’s a little vague. I clean the tip and use a “sharpie” style marker to touch up any scratches or paint blems.
Deck
Sep 4, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Heat shield is a wonderful thing. You might want to try it. Agree with the above poster. Residue. Have you ever used it before you comment on it?
Mateo
Sep 4, 2013 at 3:22 pm
Don’t use it because I don’t need to. Only amateurs do. Lol
kirk
Sep 4, 2013 at 11:49 am
any golf store can remove to tip and put onto another shaft
Brian
Sep 4, 2013 at 12:02 pm
Actually, ‘many’ stores will not remove the tip and put it onto another shaft. Either because they don’t know how, have had an issue with customer being satisfied with the result, or just prefer not to. Good to have this bit of ‘how-to’ available when the stores won’t do it.
Kadin Mahmet
Sep 4, 2013 at 1:14 pm
The shops in my area will not provide this service though a lot of shops will.
The idea behind this topic was geared towards the DIY’er
Thanks for taking the time to post! 🙂
kirk
Sep 4, 2013 at 2:48 pm
well every store around me will do this, rather pay some 10-15 bucks,than n screw around doing in my self
AJ Jensen
Sep 4, 2013 at 4:10 pm
And I’d rather do it myself. This was a great step-by-step article for a guy like me.
AJ Jensen
Sep 4, 2013 at 11:46 am
OK, for what it’s worth, I’m giving this one the award for “How-To Article of the Year.” Very well done, sir.
Kadin Mahmet
Sep 4, 2013 at 1:06 pm
Thanks AJ ! I appreciate that!