Fletching Glue?
03-13-2007, 01:15 PM
#11
Typical Buck
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RE: Fletching Glue?
Do yourself a favor and go to Wal Mart and buy a bottle of Loc Tite super glue, either the regular or the gel. Iused touse Goat Tuff all the time, and it truly is great glue. But, if you don't use it up pretty quick it ends up drying in the bottle. I was always shelling out $8 to $9 for a bottle only to throw half of it away. Then a few years agoWild outdoors, Jay Gregory told in his technical segment that he found a great glue for fletching that was a fraction of the cost of the brand name archery companies glues. I figured I would giveit a try and have been using it ever since. I have yet to have it dry out. I do quite a bit of arrows for me and all my buddies, both alum. and carbons, and I have never had any that didn't stick. Best of all, it is only $2.59 for a good size bottle. I know several guys around here who tried it and they all love it.
03-13-2007, 03:25 PM
#12
Typical Buck
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RE: Fletching Glue?
ORIGINAL: BGfisher
The main secret to good fletching jobs is not in the glue that is used, but how the arrow is prepped. Fletchtite Platinum has worked well for me on carbon and aluminum arrows for years. The super glues are quicker, but OH BOY, a pain in the arse to clean off the shafts.
Give ya little hint. If you are using rubbing alcohol (isoprophyl) to clean shafts you're never going to get any glue to work well. It has oils in it.
The main secret to good fletching jobs is not in the glue that is used, but how the arrow is prepped. Fletchtite Platinum has worked well for me on carbon and aluminum arrows for years. The super glues are quicker, but OH BOY, a pain in the arse to clean off the shafts.
Give ya little hint. If you are using rubbing alcohol (isoprophyl) to clean shafts you're never going to get any glue to work well. It has oils in it.
This might be the problem. I am using rubbing alcohol to clean the shafts. What is a good cleaner to use in place of this?
03-13-2007, 05:38 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Fletching Glue?
ORIGINAL: bowhuntn87
This might be the problem. I am using rubbing alcohol to clean the shafts. What is a good cleaner to use in place of this?
ORIGINAL: BGfisher
The main secret to good fletching jobs is not in the glue that is used, but how the arrow is prepped. Fletchtite Platinum has worked well for me on carbon and aluminum arrows for years. The super glues are quicker, but OH BOY, a pain in the arse to clean off the shafts.
Give ya little hint. If you are using rubbing alcohol (isoprophyl) to clean shafts you're never going to get any glue to work well. It has oils in it.
The main secret to good fletching jobs is not in the glue that is used, but how the arrow is prepped. Fletchtite Platinum has worked well for me on carbon and aluminum arrows for years. The super glues are quicker, but OH BOY, a pain in the arse to clean off the shafts.
Give ya little hint. If you are using rubbing alcohol (isoprophyl) to clean shafts you're never going to get any glue to work well. It has oils in it.
This might be the problem. I am using rubbing alcohol to clean the shafts. What is a good cleaner to use in place of this?
Here's one that works, too. Good ole soap and hot water, with a good hot rinse. The make sure they are dry.
Something else I forgot to mention. Some plastic vanes need the gluing base cleaned, too. You have to check the directions on the packaging of those you have. Some do and some don'tand I don't know which ones. Then there are some that have a coating that helps with the gluing process.
