Stainless Steel Joints: How snug should they be?

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sdtonyc

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Greetings, everyone.
I was hoping you all could answer a question that's been nagging me.

I have a Schon cue with a stainless steel pin (5/16 14, I believe) and a stainless steel joint collar. The shaft threads onto the cue, but it seems to me that it threads on rather loosely. At no point during the process of screwing on the shaft do I encounter any significant resistance between the shaft and the threads on the pin. My question is: Is this typical of stainless steel joints? I haven't put together many cues using this type of joint, but for cues with wood-to-wood joints, I've noticed that the threading is pretty snug throughout. Should I expect a proper stainless steel joint to thread according to the same standards? My thoughts are that a cue with an unsnug fit would have a noticeably less solid hit than its snug-fit counterpart.

Any experienced input is appreciated. Thanks.


sdtonyc
 
Yep, pretty typical.
"Hit" is very subjective and there are some pretty weird ideas out there.
Ive had 5/16 pin steel jointed cues that felt like crap and some that hit great (IMO).
Same with wood to wood.
 
im no cuemaker but i do shoot with a schon.......mine threads together pretty loosely but when it hits the bottom where the piloted shaft comes into play it snugs up very hard for about a turn and 1/2
 
sdtonyc said:
Greetings, everyone.
I was hoping you all could answer a question that's been nagging me.

I have a Schon cue with a stainless steel pin (5/16 14, I believe) and a stainless steel joint collar. The shaft threads onto the cue, but it seems to me that it threads on rather loosely. At no point during the process of screwing on the shaft do I encounter any significant resistance between the shaft and the threads on the pin. My question is: Is this typical of stainless steel joints?
sdtonyc
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Main reason why they come as piloted joints
 
hadjcues said:
Main reason why they come as piloted joints
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Yep, and there is a simple way to make the joint snug up the more you screw it together. some of the great cuemakers did it. Can learn alot just from looking at the joint of a cue carefully.
 
Thanks for the input.

Perhaps I'm looking too much into all of this. Overall, the cue hits just fine to me. I just wonder if it could be better, and if there was anything I could do about it.


sdtonyc
 
Mezz does it very well.

Cue Crazy said:
Yep, and there is a simple way to make the joint snug up the more you screw it together. some of the great cuemakers did it. Can learn alot just from looking at the joint of a cue carefully.
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Mezz has that snug fit half-way in even before the pilot takes effect.
 
This may be a bit off topic BUT...

A properly machined Wood to wood joint (Steel pin into wood) should be tight from the get go.

:D
 
BiG_JoN said:
This may be a bit off topic BUT...

A properly machined Wood to wood joint (Steel pin into wood) should be tight from the get go.

:D
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I'm with you there, I have figured that one out by accident, It's not too hard, but I have to say I do use a thin insert sometimes, as it works better for what tooling I have at the time. :D Greg
 
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