How do I fix a mushroomed tip.

Duffman

Duffman

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I have a medium hard triangle tip that is mushrooming quite a bit. I am a little nervous to start trying to fix it myself, becasue I dont have any spare tips laying around, nor do I have access to anyone that could fix my tip for me in time for my league matches on wednesday. (Small town and the only guy that does it happens to be on vacation)

I have a cue-cube, tip-pik, sandpaper, and a razor blade to use.

Can someone give me some advice on fixing the tip easily?

Thanks
 
1) take the razor blade place it against the ferrule and cut up through the tip
(make sure to take a square cut)

2)do that all around the tip.

3) tape off the ferrule and do some light sanding to smooth out the edges of the cuts you made

4)you can then place some superglue around the tip shoulder, as soon as its all on then just wait a few sec 3-5 and then whip off excess.

5)after its dry, take off the tape, lightly sand the tip to ferrule smooth, if you did prior work correctly there should not be much, do not sand a curve into your ferrule.

6) use your tip tool to re shape your tip

7)grab a little ear grease and rub it around the tip and burnish with a piece of leather or a dollar bill


good to go, the superglue helps the tip hold an edge better, next time you get a triangle put on get them pressed, it will help reduce mushrooming. Also you can cut them down some to say 3/4, as some are big and will compress some.

Grey GHost
 
Try this before any razor or glue....

1-put some spit on your finger (I know, I know)

2-wet all around the side of the tip. just a bit, no dribbling :)

3-get a book of matches or a small thin piece of cardboard, wrap around the tip and hold a little tight with thumb and finger, and use other hand to quickly rotate the shaft

4-add pressure to your fingers as you are rotating as this will burnish the tip and get rid of the mushroom for awhile. Wet and repeat!

Cheap, easy and no blades! :grin-square:
 
Duffman said:
I have a medium hard triangle tip that is mushrooming quite a bit. I am a little nervous to start trying to fix it myself, becasue I dont have any spare tips laying around, nor do I have access to anyone that could fix my tip for me in time for my league matches on wednesday. (Small town and the only guy that does it happens to be on vacation)

I have a cue-cube, tip-pik, sandpaper, and a razor blade to use.

Can someone give me some advice on fixing the tip easily?

Thanks
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Hi there,

I put on all of my own tips. You need a piece of wood 4 inches long and 1 inch high by 2 inches. Take some 400 wet dry sandpaper and staple it around the wood real tight. Need a staple gun.

Now you can sand the edge like you would with a finger nail file. Taper in a little when you sand so you don't hit the ferrel.

This is how I do it. I keep the wood block with me to do touchups now and then.

Good luck geno............
 
Emery boards work great as tip tools

Duffman:

If you don't have access to a good-quality mushroom trimming tool (e.g. Joe Porper's Little Shaver, or better yet, Big Shaver), then a standard emery board works just great:

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At your neighborhood convenience/drug/pharmacy store, you can obtain these pretty inexpensively. You can even get the ones intended for nail finishing, where they have a very fine (600 grit) side for very fine buffing of a woman's nails.

What you'll do, is first -- take your time! Using the coarse side, at very nearly parallel to the ferrule (angled very, very slightly towards the tip and away from the ferrule), sand away the mushroomed portion of the tip. Take your time, and continually rotate the cue to ensure you're not "flattening" the spot you're sanding. In fact, you may at first just want to try holding the emery board still, and rotate the cue tip on it, again, taking care to keep the emery board at a very, very slight angle towards the tip and away from the ferrule. When you've removed the mushroomed portion of the tip and now have the sides of the tip as close as possible with the surface of the ferrule, you can flip the emery board over and use the fine side to buff it, using the same technique -- rotating the cue tip's side against it using the very, very slight angle you used when sanding it.

After you get a nice smooth surface on it, put the emery board aside, and get yourself a strip of brown paper bag (like your normal paper shopping/lunch bag). Wet the sides of the tip with a little water or saliva, and rub the sides of the tip briskly with the strip of brown paper bag. You'll notice this will "darken" the sides of the tip and buff it to a nice finish.

Voila!

Hope this helps,
-Sean
 
on a triangle I'd probably just tape off the ferrule with some masking tape, and then sand the tip down with some 320 sand paper. I usually just spin the shaft against my leg while doing it. Can you use a higher grit, just takes longer.

Depends how bad it is of course. If its really bad I'd use the razor first.
 
Take the stick back to the cuemaker who installed the tip. The tip must be fairly new, if the tip is mushrooming. Any reputible cue maker will take the mushroom out FREE of charge ... on a lathe ... with the proper tools ... and, burnish with leather when complete.
 
Thanks for the tips guys (pun intended). I am going to try sfeinen's idea first becasue it sounds easiest. If that doesnt work out for me i am going to try greyghosts sans super glue.
 
definately start with whatever you feel most comfortable in executing, I do have cue making experience and put on tips by hand for over a decade.

The superglue trick works wonderfully to prevent mushrooming especially on elkmasters, another trick i use is to wet the sides of the tip and burnish it with a hot iron. The sides become hard hard hard, but you better be dam careful not to mess up the ferrule.

Both ways work really well but neither are for someone thats not good with their hands.


always use precaution, and remember kids do not try that at home.
Grey GHost
 
Since I was once in the business my first thought is to take your shaft to a reputable cue repair person. For a couple of bucks they'll shape it up in no time, and in many instances they will do it for free. Other than that, I think mushrooms go good with steaks and gravy.
 
Tramp Steamer said:
Since I was once in the business my first thought is to take your shaft to a reputable cue repair person. For a couple of bucks they'll shape it up in no time, and in many instances they will do it for free. Other than that, I think mushrooms go good with steaks and gravy.
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they go good in tea also....that tea is so good itll make the balls talk to you...i once saw mitch larwence after drinking some tea...i knocked his illiterate a** right in the corner pocket
 
the only problem with using to tip burnishers and doing the same with some spit and the rail to de-mushroom is your just pushing the sides in and the tip is just going to mushroom again, if you want to stop it you got to remove the muffin tops off the sides or it will be a reoccurring problem.

The tip mushrooms b/c it wasn't compacted to begin with, the tip mushrooms and basically is compacted, pushing the sides back in takes the compaction away only to occur again.

Thats why multi layer tips dont mushroom (or not nearly as much) b/c they are pressed, if you don't want mushrooming problems to begin with then press your one piece tips.
 
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