3/8*10 pin size

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Franco0277 said:
Question,
Which custom cue makers use the pin size as McDermott (3-8*10)?
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Many can if they are building you a cue.

Diveney's old stuff circa 2012 used to be some type of surgical or radial... but I think anything within the last decade has been a modified 3/8-10. A Diveney shaft will fit on a McDermott and a McDermott shaft will fit on a Diveney. I'm not really familiar with other makers, but 3/8-10 is pretty common as is radial. My advice is to avoid any oddball or proprietary type pins as it just makes getting a new shaft a pain in the rear.
 
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Many cue makers use the 3/8x10 modified pin.
In most cases, the modified version shafts will fit the old pin.
Old shafts may fit the mod pin, if not, the could be tapped to fit all.
 
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skor said:
Many cue makers use the 3/8x10 modified pin.
In most cases, the modified version shafts will fit the old pin.
Old shafts may fit the mod pin, if not, the could be tapped to fit all.
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It may or may not fit……sometimes it doesn’t work out so just be mentally prepared if that were to happen.
 

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Kim Bye said:
There's definently makers that use the regular style 3/8-10 pin. I've seen Jerry Oliver and Jim Pierce cues with regular 3/8-10 pins, probably other makers as well.
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Most cue makers use the regular 3/8x10 pin but could accommodate requests for other pins, like modified 3/8.
I don’t it make a tinkers damn difference between the two pins but radial pin is always a very good alternative.
 

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Bavafongoul said:
Most cue makers use the regular 3/8x10 pin but could accommodate requests for other pins, like modified 3/8.
I don’t it make a tinkers damn difference between the two pins but radial pin is always a very good alternative.
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Absolutely. It all depends on how you are set up I guess. I offer radial pins as one of my options, but I've always been a fan of 3/8-10 Modified as I have the ability to live tool the threads, which I feel give superior thread quality to using a tap. For Radial this is obviously different as it's a ball thread and I think just about every cue maker uses the taps made by Uni-Loc corp. I did however convert a Mezz Radial shaft yesterday and that only had a 1.8" deep hole that tells me that they probably do live threading on a CNC or have a modified tap as the official specs says drill 2.3" deep and tap 2" deep.
 
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Kim Bye said:
Absolutely. It all depends on how you are set up I guess. I offer radial pins as one of my options, but I've always been a fan of 3/8-10 Modified as I have the ability to live tool the threads, which I feel give superior thread quality to using a tap. For Radial this is obviously different as it's a ball thread and I think just about every cue maker uses the taps made by Uni-Loc corp. I did however convert a Mezz Radial shaft yesterday and that only had a 1.8" deep hole that tells me that they probably do live threading on a CNC or have a modified tap as the official specs says drill 2.3" deep and tap 2" deep.
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Unless they're using 2 taps, one that bottoms.
There was a time when they weren't so expensive.
 

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