G10 pins and piloted joints?

DAVE_M

DAVE_M

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Has any ever attempted to make a G10 pin with a diameter smaller than 0.375"?
Could a G10 5/16x14 piloted joint be made? Or, would it be too thin and weak?

I do not know much about G10 tolerances in cuemaking.
However, I'm willing to explore with my next cue build.
 
DAVE_M said:
Has any ever attempted to make a G10 pin with a diameter smaller than 0.375"?
Could a G10 5/16x14 piloted joint be made? Or, would it be too thin and weak?

I do not know much about G10 tolerances in cuemaking.
However, I'm willing to explore with my next cue build.
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Never seen one that small........ but I have never seen a 3/8 G10 pin break ..... I have broken a 3/8 brass pin.............

Kim
 
Kim,
" I have broken a 3/8 brass pin..." :eek:
So is that incident the source of your AZB name Whammo?
;)
Gary
 
GBCues said:
Kim,
" I have broken a 3/8 brass pin..." :eek:
So is that incident the source of your AZB name Whammo?
;)
Gary
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no,,,, haha..

I actually was spinning a cue in my sanding/finish spinner and I did not realize that I had a mis alignment problem between the headstock and tailstock..... I left it spinning and the pin backed out of the threaded mandril and snapped off flush with the joint end of the cue.

I fixed everything and put in a new pin.................

Kim
 
I've seen smaller versions of pins made from G10. One that comes to mind is a 5/16-14 radial type pin that Paul Drexler had several years ago. Its a pretty cool pin.
 
ratcues said:
I've seen smaller versions of pins made from G10. One that comes to mind is a 5/16-14 radial type pin that Paul Drexler had several years ago. Its a pretty cool pin.
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So in theory, it would be possible to make a 5/16x14 piloted joint?
 
G-10 Pin

The Pin I had made was actually a 5/16 X 10 thread pin and it was NOT a Radial configuration . . . it was in fact a "sine wave" . . . I had the pin made in Stainless Steel first and then had diamond tooling made to cut the pin configuration in G-10 . . . I referred to this a a MAXX Pin - since it had virtually 100% contact between the threads of the pin and the threads in the wood in the shaft due to the sine wave profile of the pin geometry.

And NO - the G-10 version has not broken . . .

pfd
 
pfd studios said:
The Pin I had made was actually a 5/16 X 10 thread pin and it was NOT a Radial configuration . . . it was in fact a "sine wave" . . . I had the pin made in Stainless Steel first and then had diamond tooling made to cut the pin configuration in G-10 . . . I referred to this a a MAXX Pin - since it had virtually 100% contact between the threads of the pin and the threads in the wood in the shaft due to the sine wave profile of the pin geometry.

And NO - the G-10 version has not broken . . .

pfd
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Do you have any pictures? Would it be possible to have this as a piloted joint?
 
pfd studios said:
The Pin I had made was actually a 5/16 X 10 thread pin and it was NOT a Radial configuration . . . it was in fact a "sine wave" . . . I had the pin made in Stainless Steel first and then had diamond tooling made to cut the pin configuration in G-10 . . . I referred to this a a MAXX Pin - since it had virtually 100% contact between the threads of the pin and the threads in the wood in the shaft due to the sine wave profile of the pin geometry.

And NO - the G-10 version has not broken . . .

pfd
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^^That's what I meant^^:D
 
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