Tip Application

JesPiddlin

JesPiddlin

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This may have been asked before. Sorry if I'm posting a duplicate.

How many of you apply your own tips? What type of adhesive do you use? How well do they stay on?

If you have your tip applied by a cuemaker, do you know if he does it by hand, or uses a lathe? What kind of adhesive or glue does he use?

Just curious.
 
JesPiddlin said:
This may have been asked before. Sorry if I'm posting a duplicate. It's at least a duplicate (LOL) more like 50X.
How many of you apply your own tips? I do. What type of adhesive do you use? Loctite 454, gel type instant adhesive. How well do they stay on? They stay on till they need to be cut off and replaced.
If you have your tip applied by a cuemaker, do you know if he does it by hand, or uses a lathe? A lathe. What kind of adhesive or glue does he use? Don't know.

Just curious.
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Paul..............Hope this helps
 
1. I do all mine, plus all my league buddies
2. Gorilla Glue, unless someone's in a hurry, then Loctite Professional CA
3. Until it's time to change-only lost one with Gorilla Glue
4. Never had a CM do it for me. I learned it all from AZ
5. n/a

Bill
 
billyjack said:
1. I do all mine, plus all my league buddies
2. Gorilla Glue, unless someone's in a hurry, then Loctite Professional CA
3. Until it's time to change-only lost one with Gorilla Glue
4. Never had a CM do it for me. I learned it all from AZ
5. n/a

Bill
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Do you use a lathe, or apply it by hand?
 
JesPiddlin said:
Do you use a lathe, or apply it by hand?
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I do mine by hand. I don't trim tips with a blade. I've developed a method using various grits of sanding discs that works well for me. Most who see my tips assume they're done on a lathe. They look that good.

Bill
 
JesPiddlin said:
This may have been asked before. Sorry if I'm posting a duplicate.

How many of you apply your own tips? What type of adhesive do you use? How well do they stay on?

If you have your tip applied by a cuemaker, do you know if he does it by hand, or uses a lathe? What kind of adhesive or glue does he use?

Just curious.
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i bought a 5/16 14 pin from brianna & chuck it up in my drill, then i can thread my shaft onto it & do my tips myself.

I always use locktite superglue gel, the only way the tip is coming off is to cut it off.

hope this helps.
 
I have a Hightower repair lathe and use Loctite Superglue Gel Control. I have been tipping for 8 or 9 years now. I have 1 come off out of several hundred. Cheap Chinese cue, unknown to mankind ferrule material, probably 85% lead. :rolleyes: I will file that story with the , "will ya turn down my shaft, it's to thick" and hands me a Scorpian wood covered with "Fiberglass Matrix" shaft, probably 85% lead. :thumbup:
Purdrandoo :D
 
Lots of BS about tip replacement. Mystics want to retain their power.:D :D :D

Cut the old tip off.
Sand the end of cue down to get rid of all the old glue.
Secret - must be a flat surface, otherwise the new tip will be sitting on a dome and will pop off.
Use Instant Krazy Glue - you can buy a container with four tiny tubes just right for doing one tip.
Clamp - the one special piece of equipment you have to buy.

http://www.pooldawg.com/product/aluminum-cue-clamp

Shape new tip to dime or nickel diameter to suit your taste- file, nail file - or a cue tip tool.
 
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Wouldn't put a clamp anywhere near one of my shafts. Just use a heavy rubber band. Put one end thru the other, slide it down the shaft, pull it snug, and loop the other end over the tip. You can run a ring of masking tape around the bottom loop if you're afraid it might slip and lose tension.
This mystic is willing to share.

Bill
 
Scaramouche said:
Clamp - the one special piece of equipment you have to buy.

http://www.pooldawg.com/product/aluminum-cue-clamp
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Those things can damage your shaft. There is a better way. Just get a rubber band, cut it open, hold it along the shaft about 6" down, pull it, and wrap it over the tip and down the other side of the shaft.

Then wrap in in a circle around itself on the shaft and roll it up on itself. It holds itself in place, holds tension on the tip and leaves no possibility of a mark on the shaft. :)
 
3andstop said:
Those things can damage your shaft. )
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I have used the same clamp for at least 25 years and have some cues that old - with no damage.

It might be possible to damage a shaft if you really force the ring down, but the ring is just to hold the clamp in place so that the tip doesn't move while the glue sets. That a rubber band is suggested as an alternative is proof that the purpose of the clamp is to prevent the tip from moving, not to force the new tip down on the end of the cue. Which will be more secure, less likely to move, metal or a rubber band?
 
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A pic of my cue clamp
 
I don't know what's more impressive to a tool junky like me:
The clamp jig:or the toolbox set into the wall so it doesn't take up bench space!

Bill
 
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