I recently picked up some steelhead plus heads. According to callaway specs they take .350 tip shafts. But a .335 shaft won’t go thru to the bottom! It’s almost like they’re tapered. Has anyone encountered this before?
No….it’s a bore thru…the dia at the top of the bore is definitely. 335 and the bore dia on the sole is smaller than .335
The Steelhead Plus did take a .350. No problem installing a .335 shaft, but we would use the LE9002 plastic sleeve with attached ferrule which is designed for inserting a .335 shaft in a .350 bore. If the shaft won’t go through the bottom, and I checked with Jim our resident expert on all things repair, the bore is not cleaned out completely. When we have our repair schools, we actually used the Steelheads in the class for a time to demonstrate how to re-shaft bore throughs, so Jim has done it literally hundreds of times. Unless something was done after the original assembly, there should not be any obstruction once the old shaft is removed and the bore has been drilled/cleaned out through the entire bore.
Britt Lindsey
That’s what I thought too, that epoxy was leftover…but I cannot drill thru it….it seems to be metal and part of the clubhead
I’ll post as a comment so it won’t stop a more credible answer.
1st thought is there a restriction, old epoxy or spacer.
2nd idea is this a blind-bore head (shaft doesn’t actually go all the way to the exit port).
I don’t recall for sure, but this was the first club I reshafted and regripped in 2000. No tools, just a propane torch and some gloves. Caught the head on fire.