Fix your shaft with a beer-bottle...

[Peer]

Well well well...
..yesterday I proudly showed up at the hall with a spanking new break/jump cue -- a phenolic tipper J&J. As I was trying to get used to it (jumping balls all over the place) a prodigy kid came up to my table and asked if we could play. Sure. But as he moved his stuff over to my table, he managed to knock over my newly acquired cue onto the entrance tile-floor. Since it wasn't intentional, it wasn't much to do than just shrug it off.

Anyways, last night my buddy James told me to use a glass bottle to smooth out the nicks that the shaft suffered. To my surprise, this bottle trick worked very well -- and after a few strokes with steel-wool, the shaft now feels like new again.

So there you have it folks -- a beer-bottle and some steel-wool can do wonders to a banged-up shaft.

-- peer

 

[Double-Dave]

Unfortunately you haven't removed the dent from your shaft. What you have done is make it a lot bigger by compressing the wood surrounding the dent. Don't do it again. Steel wool? Arrgggghhh!

gr. Dave

 

[RiverCity]

Unfortunately you haven't removed the dent from your shaft. What you have done is make it a lot bigger by compressing the wood surrounding the dent. Don't do it again. Steel wool? Arrgggghhh!

gr. Dave

Bingo
What burnishing with a bottle, shot glass etc does is feather the little dent out to a big dent which you cant feel as easily. But you are doing damage.
Better ways are out there, steaming, etc to get the dent to swell back out to where it used to be.
Chuck

 

[RBLilly]

Unfortunately you haven't removed the dent from your shaft. What you have done is make it a lot bigger by compressing the wood surrounding the dent. Don't do it again. Steel wool? Arrgggghhh!

gr. Dave

Yea I agree! I would rather swell the wood up with water and an iron then sand the shaft down to where it should be. Much better alternative.

 

[TheBook]

Unfortunately you haven't removed the dent from your shaft. What you have done is make it a lot bigger by compressing the wood surrounding the dent. Don't do it again. Steel wool? Arrgggghhh!

gr. Dave

Good advice. This is one of the worst things to do to a cue. You should use a drop of water on the dent to swell it back. Then burnish it to smooth out.

 

[Flipmode]

How do you use a steamer? Should you put a towel over the shaft or just apply the steamer directly onto it.

 

[DaveK]

How do you use a steamer? Should you put a towel over the shaft or just apply the steamer directly onto it.

There have been several good discussion on this topic. Search using 'dent remove' or 'dent steam' and you'll be rewarded with a bunch of good threads. Some of the better ones were in the Cuemaker sub-forums.

Dave

 

[Peer]

Maybe I need to explain that the damage to my shaft wasn't just dents, but there were both protrusions and indentions (next to each other) so the bottle smoothing probably just pushed down the protrusions into the indentions.

In any case, even if the shaft now feels perfectly fine, I wouldn't try this bottle-hack on my Longoni.

-- peer

 

[seymore15074]

Anyways, last night my buddy James told me to use a glass bottle to smooth out the nicks that the shaft suffered. To my surprise, this bottle trick worked very well -- and after a few strokes with steel-wool, the shaft now feels like new again.

So there you have it folks -- a beer-bottle and some steel-wool can do wonders to a banged-up shaft.

-- peer

Awesome, I use a glass rod from time to time myself...after all, it's just a shaft; they don't last forever anyway.

 

[Roy Steffensen]

I normally just drink the beer instead, and then I can't feel the dent. Works perfect

I agree with those who said use a drop of hot water and let the wood heal itself.

 

[DaveK]

Maybe I need to explain that the damage to my shaft wasn't just dents, but there were both protrusions and indentions (next to each other) so the bottle smoothing probably just pushed down the protrusions into the indentions.

I didn't think that wood was that malleable.

Dave, likes Roys first suggestion

 

[Ralph Kramden]

I think it would be best to use a bottle of 'Lite' beer. I don't think any one brand would be better than another tho'.

 

[BANKONIT]

Steam

Put Aluminum Foil Over Pan Of Water Held On By A Rubber Band. Punch A Pin Hole In Foil. Boil Water, Instant Steam Jet.

 

[bruin70]

Well well well...
..yesterday I proudly showed up at the hall with a spanking new break/jump cue -- a phenolic tipper J&J. As I was trying to get used to it (jumping balls all over the place) a prodigy kid came up to my table and asked if we could play. Sure. But as he moved his stuff over to my table, he managed to knock over my newly acquired cue onto the entrance tile-floor. Since it wasn't intentional, it wasn't much to do than just shrug it off.

Anyways, last night my buddy James told me to use a glass bottle to smooth out the nicks that the shaft suffered. To my surprise, this bottle trick worked very well -- and after a few strokes with steel-wool, the shaft now feels like new again.

So there you have it folks -- a beer-bottle and some steel-wool can do wonders to a banged-up shaft.

-- peer

CHREEST, MAN !!!

you probably steel wooled the shaft down to the nick!

 

[bruin70]

Awesome, I use a glass rod from time to time myself...after all, it's just a shaft; they don't last forever anyway.

shot glass is good,,,and it's concave.

 

[Peer]

Roy Steffensen wrote:
> I normally just drink the beer instead, and then I
> can't feel the dent. Works perfect

Seriously, do you actually think that I hadn't drank that beer prior..?

Kom igjen da -- jeg er jo Norsk, tross alt.

-- peer

 

[Roy Steffensen]

Roy Steffensen wrote:
> I normally just drink the beer instead, and then I
> can't feel the dent. Works perfect

Seriously, do you actually think that I hadn't drank that beer prior..?

Kom igjen da -- jeg er jo Norsk, tross alt.

-- peer

Obviously you had too many based on the comments from some of the people on here, after your use of steel-wool

 

[LAMas]

Put Aluminum Foil Over Pan Of Water Held On By A Rubber Band. Punch A Pin Hole In Foil. Boil Water, Instant Steam Jet.

Why not use a pressure cooker to develop the steam jet?

 

[bwxd]

Why not use a pressure cooker to develop the steam jet?

because pressure cookers are extremely dangerous, where as steaming from boiling water cant really hurt you

 

[Dawgie]

Put Aluminum Foil Over Pan Of Water Held On By A Rubber Band. Punch A Pin Hole In Foil. Boil Water, Instant Steam Jet.

What do you think about a Tea Kettle. Seems like a lot less work. But I bow to you on this issue.