Trueing up a shaft

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luke

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I have a 13.2mm very old shaft with a very slight wobble. Would retapering and removing about .2 mm make it straight and get rid of the slight wobble?
 
Depends on how bad the wobble is. Also it might come back straight with humidity change.

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What is the long answer? It really is very slight. It's such a great playing shaft I hate to trash it. Thanks for help!
 
luke said:
What is the long answer? It really is very slight. It's such a great playing shaft I hate to trash it. Thanks for help!
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If you like how it plays, just keep it as is. Why would you trash it?
 
luke said:
What is the long answer? It really is very slight. It's such a great playing shaft I hate to trash it. Thanks for help!
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A slight wobble is not going to affect the playability at all. Why would you trash it? I swear people get so ridiculous about cues some times it is hard to understand.

I was selling a cue to a C player once when he pulled out a dollar bill and tried to negotiate the price when the shaft wobbled more than the thickness of his bill. I told him I changed my mind and would not sell him the cue. The next time I saw him he had a cue with slightly more wobble than the one I had for sale. I pulled out my bill and gave it the same stupid scrutiny he had given mine, then gave him shit about his warped cue all night.

A tiny bit of movement in a shaft is not unusual, A dead nuts straight one is however..
 
luke said:
What is the long answer? It really is very slight. It's such a great playing shaft I hate to trash it. Thanks for help!
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First, is the shaft wobbling because it is warped? If you are rolling it on a
table, it might be just out of round. Not terribly uncommon with "older"
shafts. So put it in a lathe to determine the cause.

The long answer is, if it is warped, wood warps for a reason, and wood has
memory. Even if you turn it down to the point where it no longer
wobbles - in time it is very, very likely it will return to its present shape.

Dale
 
It happened when I moved fro the Midwest Chicago area to Central Texas(climate change). I tried rubbing the high side with leather and it helped quite a bit. It's almost straight and I wouldn't mind if it was reduced to around 13mm if it would fix it.
 
forget it!

What you should do with that shaft is go play pool with it. A tiny wobble will affect nothing.

Robin Snyder
 
luke said:
It happened when I moved fro the Midwest Chicago area to Central Texas(climate change). I tried rubbing the high side with leather and it helped quite a bit. It's almost straight and I wouldn't mind if it was reduced to around 13mm if it would fix it.
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It won't...
 
Hi,

If the shaft is sanded no.

If it is re-tapered no also. .2mm is nothing.

If you re taper the shaft to get the wobble out you must cut in to the shaft all the way around the dia. on the first pass or it will bounce in the center and not correct.

Remember the difference between 13 mm and lets say 12.75 is .511 to .502. Divide that by 2 and you would only remove .0045 per side if you re tapered a straight shaft. If you have a visible wobble it is doubtless more than that.

Leave it alone or shoot for 12.5 if that is enough to make it straight.

Take it to a cue repair guy and measure the run out.

JMO,

Rick
 
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Most likely you cannot get the warp out by cutting it.
Check with Jacoby as they have been having success straightening shafts.
 
Success!! I used a leather belt and then a 1/4" thick leather pad and rubbed the high spot until the wobble is nearly undetectable. If it stays like it is now I'll be very pleased. Thanks for all the help and PM's.
 
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