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I travel quite a bit for work and I take my cues with me. Working in a different city for about a year at a time, most of the time I don't have access to a proper cue repairman and/or lathe. So I've decided to replace my own tips when needed.

Can anyone recommend a good way to replace tips without a lathe? I've seen the youtube vids showing tip replacements but I can't get the tip to run flush with the ferrule without damaging it. Just wondering if there was a tool or process that I'm not aware of.

thanks
 
Redneck Jim said:
Check out the method in the link below. It looks like one way to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N-hmyBxNn0
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That might work with a soft tip on a snooker cue but most tips now a days are too hard to trim that easily by hand with a utility knife blade.

Way back a bench grinder, jack knife, file, and sand paper worked for me. They sure looked ugly but they worked.

I would say that a professionally installed tip looks and plays much better than the video.

Kim
 
That is how most people out here put the tips on their snooker cues.
He did do a good job of centering the tip when gluing it on.
 
utility knife....

whammo57 said:
That might work with a soft tip on a snooker cue but most tips now a days are too hard to trim that easily by hand with a utility knife blade.

Way back a bench grinder, jack knife, file, and sand paper worked for me. They sure looked ugly but they worked.

I would say that a professionally installed tip looks and plays much better than the video.

Kim
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I resorted to a version of this video but with a utility knife. Although the tips are too hard nowadays to get any delicate work in. I guess I just have to live with a jerry-rigged tip until I have access to a lathe.
thanks guys
 
If I were in your situation I'd send the shaft to the cuemaker/repairman of your choice and get it done right. Putting on a new tip and havng the shaft cleaned at the same time is the way to go, IMO. You'll probably get it back within a week of the time you ship it out. Good luck.
 
Nail file

DoubleD said:
I can get great results with a few good files. Use smaller and finer files as you get closer to shape. When it is flush, burnish and polish. It takes skill and time, but I can get it done faster than driving to a cuemaker/repairman.

dld
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LOL, I did go out and pick up a nail file to experiment with, to polish the small edges that weren't flush with the ferrule.

thanks!
 
I have been changing tips without a lathe for many years now, and it actually Isn't that hard to get the tip flushed with the ferrule.

First use a blade to take off the sides, but leave a little excess to be shaved off- if you use a blade to cut it down, the side will become flat and end up being like an octagon.

The little bit of excess can be shaved flush to the ferrule using this little shaver by Joe Porper.

http://www.porper.com/index.cfm/fus...6ac5d5d66-B2CFF17F-19B9-F805-20FBD5C405C24C82

When this is all done. Sand the side of the tip with 320, 400,600,800,1500 and finally wet sand with 2000 to get the shine.

Entire process shouldn't take more than 1 hour.

I you want a demo, I'll gladly make a video and send it your way. :))

Below is a predator tip I put on manually without a lathe on my 314 shaft.

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billabong_1004 said:
I have been changing tips without a lathe for many years now, and it actually Isn't that hard to get the tip flushed with the ferrule.

First use a blade to take off the sides, but leave a little excess to be shaved off- if you use a blade to cut it down, the side will become flat and end up being like an octagon.

The little bit of excess can be shaved flush to the ferrule using this little shaver by Joe Porper.

http://www.porper.com/index.cfm/fus...6ac5d5d66-B2CFF17F-19B9-F805-20FBD5C405C24C82



When this is all done. Sand the side of the tip with 320, 400,600,800,1500 and finally wet sand with 2000 to get the shine.

Entire process shouldn't take more than 1 hour.

I you want a demo, I'll gladly make a video and send it your way. :))

Below is a predator tip I put on manually without a lathe on my 314 shaft.

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Wow that's a nicely groomed tip. Thanks for the advice, I'll check out the tool. Have a great weekend all!
 
If it were me, I would get 2 extra shafts and when one of them needed a tip changed, I'd switch to one of the other shafts and wait 'til you got back home or send the one needing re-tipped out. That way you have the ability to keep playing, but you get the tip professionally redone in the meantime.

Jim Notestine
 
I see that Seybert's tip video is up and working again.

http://www.seyberts.com/products/Deluxe_Tip_Replacement_Kit-984-277.html

A pretty decent instruction vid using the Q Top Sander and a couple of Porper tip tools.

Myself, I used the sander, a sharp knife when cutting the sides down and the Mushroom Grazer.

The Porper Cut Rite is a good tool but you have to learn to use it properly or you can put a serious cone on your tip. The shaft has to be angled in just right. After a couple of tries, I skipped the Cut Rite and used the Grazer and sand paper. Just tapped off the ferrule as a guide so I would get too close. Then, you can be very careful with the Grazer to even it with the ferrule or sand the rest of the tip down. Up to you for that part.

I also tried the Little Shaver for cutting the sides. It works very well also. I would use a sharp knife with the tip down against a cutting board. The use the Mini Grazer, which is used for mushrooms anyway to clean it up a bit. If you can do a good enuf job with that, you don't really need to use the Mushroom Grazer.

The Grazer has an adjustment screw in one end so that you can adjust the cutting blade to the bottom of your tip and not touch the ferrule. Still have to be careful.

After a little experimentation, you can hand tips like a Pro.

I probably spent a ton on Doo Dads only to find out that a couple of simple Porper tools work the best, for me anyway.

If you want to spend a little more, you can get the Willards tipper, usually from Muellars. Or they pop up in the Machinery Forum on occasion for a little better price.

Very perfect job there Bill. I have a Buddy that will sit in front of the TV while doing a tip and you don't know that he didn't use a lathe either.
 
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Travel a lot

I used to travel and play a lot of pool too. One of the things I did was to bring an electric drill with me. If you don't have time to do it manually and you know what you're doing , you can chuck up a shaft if you buy form Hightower a screw that fits your shaft and put the other end in a drill chuck. then with sandpaper you can quickly trim the tip to the desired amount and shape. You point the shaft at the ceiling and run the drill with your toe, while keeping a sock on one hand and letting the shaft slide through that hand. I'm sure there are other things I'm not remembering as far as prep of the tip and ferrule end but it's not coming to me right now.
the rpm's are very high so be careful when working.
Bill
 
JerseyBill said:
I used to travel and play a lot of pool too. One of the things I did was to bring an electric drill with me. If you don't have time to do it manually and you know what you're doing , you can chuck up a shaft if you buy form Hightower a screw that fits your shaft and put the other end in a drill chuck. then with sandpaper you can quickly trim the tip to the desired amount and shape. You point the shaft at the ceiling and run the drill with your toe, while keeping a sock on one hand and letting the shaft slide through that hand. I'm sure there are other things I'm not remembering as far as prep of the tip and ferrule end but it's not coming to me right now.
the rpm's are very high so be careful when working.
Bill
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I'd pay to watch that .............. I paid $10 to watch a monkey fkk a foot ball once in hong kong...............

LOL

Kim
 
Kamui black M replaced without the lathe :thumbup:

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