How To Repair Pool Cue Tip

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Replacing a Pool Cue Tip: 6 Easy Steps to exercise it Yourself

It's like a bad dream. Your tip is worn out, you have a tournament coming upwards and you can't become to your local cue repair guy, or maybe at that place isn't a cue repair guy in your area at all! Well today is your lucky day! Today we are going to learn how to install a new tip on your cue using the Tweeten Cue Tip Repair Kit . This is something every pool histrion should know. Let's get started.

The picture below shows our poor, worn out tip. This tip is pretty low and in danger of being both detrimental to your game and possibly fifty-fifty damaging your ferrule.

Old worn out pool cue tip — *This is what a worn out pool cue tip looks like. If your tip looks like this (or worse), so information technology's time to supplant it!*

Pace 1: Remove the Erstwhile Puddle Cue Tip

The first pace is to remove the sometime tip. To do this, you will need a nice sharp razor blade (delight be careful folks, information technology's hard to explain how you cut off your finger changing your cue tip). Try and get as close to the ferrule as y'all can. This may take a few passes with the razor blade. Just take your fourth dimension and slowly remove whatsoever leather and backlog gum as seen in the sequence below.

How to remove a pool cue tip — *Be extra conscientious removing your erstwhile tip so yous don't gash the side of the ferrule or your fingers.*

Footstep two: Make clean the Pool Cue Ferrule

One time yous are satisfied with your job removing the erstwhile tip you demand to brand sure the top of the ferrule is clean and as flat as possible. To do this you lot will now use the rapid height sander included in the repair kit. Just place the shaft confronting the guide as shown in the following pictures and rotate until any leftover clay and glue are removed from the top of the ferrule. Be sure to go along the sander nice and level.

Sanding a pool cue ferrule — *A make clean, flat ferrule surface is crucial for the glue to hold properly. The rapid summit sander in the Tweeten Repair Kit performs this step perfectly.*

Pace iii: Fix the Pool Cue Tip

Preparing the tip is the side by side step in the process. To practise this, have your favorite tip and use a piece of sandpaper to crude up the glue side of the leather. I exercise this by laying the sand paper on a flat surface to make sure as I sand the dorsum of the tip I go on it perfectly flat and level. Sand the tip until information technology is nice and rough. Information technology is important to make sure the tip is roughed up so the glue has something to adhere to. Apply the supplied tip cement or your favorite agglutinative (I too recommend whatever type of gel super glue) to the tip.

Attaching a pool cue tip — *Roughing up the lesser of your new pool cue tip is a skillful way of making certain the glue has somewhere to grab. Make sure to put some gum on the ferrule side, too!*

Step four: Place the Pool Cue Tip on the Ferrule

In the following sequence, you volition run into the next step is to place the tip on the ferrule. Make sure to get the tip centered as best y'all can. Printing firmly on the tip to make sure any air pockets are removed; the glue will push button out onto the ferrule. While holding the tip in place, use some newspaper towel to wipe the glue that has now no doubt gotten on the ferrule. The more we can get off the ferrule now the less yous have to worry nearly trying to sand off afterward. Next, assemble the tip clench that came with your kit. This clamp slips over the shaft and as you can meet in the photo, you merely place the safety band on the eye of the tip and pull the clamp down. Use the slider to hold the clamp in place. Allow the gum dry for 10 to 15 minutes.

Cue tip clamp tweeten repair kit — *Centre the tip, press down, and wipe off the excess glue. Then use the tip clench to keep pressure while the gum sets for 15 minutes or longer.*

Pace 5: Cut and Sand the Cue Tip to the Ferrule

The adjacent step is the role that requires a lilliputian patience and some practice—cut the tip to friction match the diameter of your ferrule. I like to identify the shaft on a hard surface with the tip downwardly every bit shown below. Use your razor blade to slowly shave away the sides of the tip. Don't effort to take off also much leather at once, it is easier to move slowly. When you get closer y'all tin utilize your ferrule equally a guide. Make certain you cut downward towards the tabular array in equally direct a line as you tin. On a side note, don't do this on your kitchen/dining room table….wives and or mothers do non capeesh modest razor cuts in the finish. Don't enquire me how I know this. Once you accept the tip the same diameter as the ferrule, you tin clean it upwardly some more and remove any flat spots from the razor blade using a piece of 800 grit sand paper. Be conscientious non to sand too much on your ferrule.

Shaping a pool cue tip — *Again, be extremely cautious with this pace and so you tin can avoid damaging your pool cue ferrule. Use a high dust sandpaper to get that concluding slice of the tip perfect.*

Stride half-dozen: Shape the Pool Cue Tip

So now you have a tip glued firmly on and the aforementioned diameter as your ferrule, but it is probably apartment. Time to shape it up. Utilize your favorite tip shaper, or the shaper that comes in the kit. Sand the tip until you get the desired shape you lot prefer, dime, nickel etc. One time you have the tip shaped upwards, moisten the side of the tip (a little h2o works fine, only don't get it too wet). Use a prissy slice of leather to brighten the sides of your tip, below shows the Pooldawg Tip and Shaft Burnisher .

Pool cue burnishing pad — *Burnishing the side of the tip gives information technology a smooth finish and helps it to agree its shape.*

We now accept our finished tip. Not everyone has access to a good cue repair person or fifty-fifty the use of a lathe to install tips, but there is no reason to worry at present that you know how to put your own tips on. Your first attempts might be a piddling rough, simply in time you volition develop your own methods and your tip installs will improve.

Repaired pool cue tip — *Here is the final production. Endeavour information technology yourself and y'all'll see that it'southward easier than you think to alter your own pool cue tip.*

Until next time.

Mikey V.

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