I have a local guy install my tips for me and am very satisfied with his work. How ever I picked up a couple a G10 tips for my wife and I's break cues. The tips keep falling off and he tries a different glue each time with no luck. He did the work for free because I had extra tips I gave him in return so I can't complain. My question is what glue seems to hold the best for these tips? I would like to pick something up and glue them back on my self to save him additional expense and to leave well enough alone. Any suggestions are appreciated as I have no idea what he's has tried.
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It's just a cheap old action cue that my wife started with so I have no idea. It was a cheap way for her to still use her cue that she has since upgraded...the other shaft is a mystery shaft...it is on a meucci but is deffinately not meuccithat is ever so slightly warped. Another idea for a cheap way to get by until I get an actual shaft. The only glue I know that was used is an epoxy of sorts
try this..... every white diamond J/B tip I put on eventually popped off. I tried every glue on the market. After I did this method... I have not had one pop off. I use 5 minute epoxy now. tenons.....1/4 in into the shaft and 3/16 for the tip
Kim
Damn Kim.... that's nice. The White Diamond is about the ONLY break tip that has ever stayed on for me. Every time I try JUST a G10 tip, it pops off. I just change the whole thing to a ferrule/tip combo. Tom's Ultra Skin HH's make great leather break tips.
try this..... every white diamond J/B tip I put on eventually popped off. I tried every glue on the market. After I did this method... I have not had one pop off. I use 5 minute epoxy now. tenons.....1/4 in into the shaft and 3/16 for the tip
Kim
I like that,
The only thing I would do different is to not have the tip tenon have a through hole.
I would stop it halfway.
That way you still have 100% cue ball contacting the white diamond instead of having the impact point being phenolic.
Kind of defeats the intent of having a white diamond tip?
I had a customer buy a White Diamond and ask me to install it on top of a stock Joss ferrule. I told him I didn't believe it would work because of the well-known gluing issues.
He then pulled a black G-10 ferrule out of his pocket,and said "what now?".
I told him that it MIGHT work better,but it would take 24 hours for the epoxy to cure,he said ok.
What I wound up doing is turning a 1/8 long,.250 diameter tenon on the end of the G-10 ferrule,and bored a snug fitting hole in the back of the White Diamond.
I used Gorilla epoxy and left it clamped with tailstock pressure for a full 24 hours,then trimmed and blended.
A year later,it's still on,not too bad for the first time I've used either material :thumbup:. Tommy D.
He then pulled a black G-10 ferrule out of his pocket,and said "what now?".
I told him that it MIGHT work better,but it would take 24 hours for the epoxy to cure,he said ok.
What I wound up doing is turning a 1/8 long,.250 diameter tenon on the end of the G-10 ferrule,and bored a snug fitting hole in the back of the White Diamond.
I used Gorilla epoxy and left it clamped with tailstock pressure for a full 24 hours,then trimmed and blended.
A year later,it's still on,not too bad for the first time I've used either material :thumbup:. Tommy D.
I like the suggestions I'm getting, to answer questions about why a G10 is long winded but I'll try because I might get other good suggestions. First of all I have a weak break due to bad habit to avoid a scratch that would give my opponent a ball and had. Im a three and usually play 5's or higher in apa nine ball. Then I added apa 8 ball and break weak. I was then asked to do bca. So I needed to change break cue tip to a phenolic to break better as hard leather wasn't working. I learned about G10s. I read what seemed like hundreds of hours of forum posts and reviews so I am familiar with almost all aspects of it, the good and bad. I decided to go with because to my understanding of the bca rules say something about allowing tips made of fiberous material. I figure the G10 with fiber glass counts. As far as I knew they didn't have special considerations for jump cues. Needless to say when it stays on I average a couple balls a break including an 8 or two. That's why I chose it and would love to make it work.
I understand your point but I haven't seen or felt any difference. The phenolic is pretty hard on its own. I do this for jump tips and when you strike the ball jumping, the center of the tip doesn't hit any way. This set up on a purple heart shaft is like breaking or jumping with an iron rod.
Kim
The only other phenolic I've used that I can it a name is the ice breaker...and I do agree that there really all very similar but I was not impressed enough to spend 40 bucks I believe on getting one installed when the G10 was 12 bucks for 5 tips and free installation on 2 of them. I've only been playing for a year and a half so everything equipment wise is trial and error.