Some ferrules might be a bit oily.
What I usually do if I have to replace a Icebreaker tip is to clean the ferrule with some acetone and use Tiger Glue and or epoxy, specially on a phenolic tip like that. Never had one come off.
no the tip did not come unglued, the phenolic seperated, part is still on the tip and the other half is still completly glued to the ferrule yet? strange?
Had exactly the same thing happen with mine... Didn't work on it with any tool or anything. It just separated between 2 layers of the phenolic. I loved the feel and bounce it had but it's not worth it if it comes apart in 2 nights play.