Can I use compressed air to remove graphite or steel shafts from club heads? Heat the hozel, apply 10psi of air pressure. Shouldn’t be terribly risky I wouldn’t think. What say you?
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Can I use compressed air to remove graphite or steel shafts from club heads? Heat the hozel, apply 10psi of air pressure. Shouldn’t be terribly risky I wouldn’t think. What say you?
Biggest problem, almost always, epoxy has gone up the shaft and created a plug.
On a graphite shaft, the inside diameter is usually about 1/8″, whish is an area of about 0.2 sq. inches. With 10PSI, you’d have 2 lbs of force. A shaft puller probably applies well over 50 lbs of force.
I can always bump my pressure up to over 100PSI in increments.
I think you’d need well over 200psi, and at that point the shaft might crack.
I think the amount of air pressure it would take to push a head off would be much higher than 10 psi. I’m thinking high enough to where you’d have to worry about if the shaft was damaged, it could break apart.
I don’t know if it would work, but I think I’ll give it a try when I have the free time. It’d be pretty cool!