Aluminium Ferrules

conetip

conetip

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Has anyone tried using 2024 or 7075 Aluminium for a cue tip ferrule?
If so , what was the outcome.
I think Brass looks nice but is too heavy.

Neil
 
Why would you want to? There is nothing to gain. There are already light & bulletproof materials. Aluminum would have no advantages.
 
Pimp your cue with a bling kit from CRAPCO.
If you will buy this you will buy anything.
 
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Great moneymaker for googans.
 
good answers so far, but why waste time with machining and such on aluminum ? just go to WalMart and buy one of their titanium ferruled cues. they are already polished and have a "brown" tip on them.

tap them a few times on the table rail and they will come off, then you can put them on your high-dollar cue....:D
 
Varney Cues said:
Why would you want to? There is nothing to gain. There are already light & bulletproof materials. Aluminum would have no advantages.
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This from the man who cored a cue with PVC :rolleyes: I thought you may be a little more open minded about alternate materials.

The one issue I might suggest with aluminIum is that it can be tricky to glue. The other is why 2024 or 7075 and not 6061 T6 (the most common alloy imo) ?

I have made a 6061 ferrule for an experimental jump cue built from a graphite golf shaft. The ferrule works (ie the tip stayed on), but at about 3oz I think the jump cue was a bit light ... and it would not fit in my case :eek:

My cut-down-dufferin jump cue has a bantam-jack ferrule for a ferrule :) It's nice and shiney and has a lovely knurled ring to boot !

Dave, accidental bling-boy and apparently also a googan

PS to the OP, well spelled !
 
Not to be a pest but... aluminium is a chiefly British variation of aluminum. Aluminum is the American English version... and actually isn't even the original version.

www.etymonline.com said:
1812, coined by Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), from L. alumen "alum" (see alum). Davy originally called it alumium (1808), then amended this to aluminum, which remains the U.S. word, but British editors in 1812 further amended it to aluminium, the modern preferred British form, to better harmonize with other element names (sodium, potassium, etc.).
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Aluminum ferrules are nothing new. Over the years I've worked on dozens of shafts with aluminum ferrules. Back in the sixties and early seventies they came out with all aluminum cues but they never caught on. The really bad thing with an aluminum ferrule is the oxidation. After putting on a tip you must be very careful while polishing the ferrule, not to contact the tip or shaft or the black oxidation will contaminate the tip and shaft and is very difficult, if not impossible, to remove. The same with very small brass ferrules on Snooker shafts.

Dick
 
rhncue said:
Aluminum ferrules are nothing new. Over the years I've worked on dozens of shafts with aluminum ferrules. Back in the sixties and early seventies they came out with all aluminum cues but they never caught on. The really bad thing with an aluminum ferrule is the oxidation. After putting on a tip you must be very careful while polishing the ferrule, not to contact the tip or shaft or the black oxidation will contaminate the tip and shaft and is very difficult, if not impossible, to remove. The same with very small brass ferrules on Snooker shafts.

Dick
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Aluminium oxide is white, perhaps these ferrules/cues were anodized and dyed black.

Dave
 
I was thinking of 2024 as it is alot harder than 6061.
Also the loctite 380 glues very well to 2024. 7075 is a little harder again over the 2024 , but 7075 will corrode and have black spots. It is the zinc in it that causes the black corrosion.
 
conetip said:
I was thinking of 2024 as it is alot harder than 6061.
Also the loctite 380 glues very well to 2024. 7075 is a little harder again over the 2024 , but 7075 will corrode and have black spots. It is the zinc in it that causes the black corrosion.
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Thanks conetip. Of course my answer to everything is 6061 T6, unless it's one of my own special alloys (melt a bit of this, a bit of that, pour into mold).

Dave
 
DaveK said:
Aluminium oxide is white, perhaps these ferrules/cues were anodized and dyed black.

Dave
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No, I'm talking about white aluminum. Anytime that a rubbing compound is used on metal the slurry that is formed is black.

Dick
 
rhncue said:
No, I'm talking about white aluminum. Anytime that a rubbing compound is used on metal the slurry that is formed is black.

Dick
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Ah ha ! I know what you are refering to ... I should have known, my hands get very 'dirty' after working on nice clean aluminium for a while. Sorry for my confusion.

Dave
 
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