What pin is this radial or 3/8 x10

It wouldn't surprise me if Mike Gulyassy has the tap also. His late sledgehammers also had the import radial pin.
 
Well this sucks !!! This cue plays as well if not better than any of the custom cues i have had... I guess ill contact ob to get one made thanks guys!!!!!!!!!
 
been there!

It won't Chris. Someone sent me an Elite butt and I tried a shaft for a Uniloc Radial. It will screw on part way and thats it.

I tapped a new shaft with a Uniloc tap and tried to see if the difference might be so slight that I could force it to create its own threads. I thought the difference might be the major diameter. No go. Funny that it will screw on part way like nobodies business and then nothing.

I plugged both holes and tapped for a 3/8ths X 10 pin.

I like the Elite cue line myself. Too bad they use a Chinese Radial style pin and it seems like no maker or repairman has a tap for it as of yet. It makes getting an extra or replacement shaft for it pretty much impossible as it stands right now. The only solution is plugging the holes and using a Uniloc Radial or a common pin. Its not like its an serious expensive solution if you happen to like the cue, it just means a bit of unecessary hassle to have to go thru.


The deal is that threads are usually fit for fairly poor contact, maybe 70% or so, so there is slack between the male and female threads. If the female threads are short enough like a nut the threads seem to mesh perfectly even if the pitches are slightly different. On something deeper like a threaded hole the slack gets taken up and the pieces jam partway or if forced can gall and become a permanent installation! Here is how I learned these little details:

There are a lot of acme bastard threads, oddball pitches. What happens is that they screw on a very similar pitch until the clearance between threads is used up. As an example, I dealt with acme threads that were four pitch. Problem is that they ranged from 3.9 to over 4, the stock size was over an inch diameter, don't remember exactly now. Anyway, the stainless threaded stock worked great with one inch thick threaded collars, no issues. Then they changed to inch and a half thick collars and all of a sudden nothing threaded together. That is when I learned a bit about how the acme threaded stock was made and the actual pitch could run all over the place!

I agree, if somebody likes the cue change to a "standard" pin. The bastard thread knock off is going to continue to be headaches every time you want to try another shaft or need one for whatever reason.

Hu
 
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