Replacing cue tip

[hotpot]

I,m a fan of Gorrila aswell , cant beat it if you use an overhanging tip and need to be precise .

[steve clarke]

Thank you gentlemen for your relies - much appreciated.

Plenty of food for thought - now I know to avoid screw ins like the plague!

Cheers

steve

[bricktip]

Re-tipping is an art and takes quite a lot of practice. There is some good information on this thread, but you'll still need to do a few bad ones before you get the feel for it and find your own way that works for you - and doing it without wearing your cue down on the ferrule.

Patience is important. Allow yourself plenty of time to do it. I usually take about an hour to do a re-tip on my cue.

[Terry Davidson]

Steve:

I agree with most of the comments here. Screw-in tips are definitely not recommended and would never be used by any decent snooker or pool player.

I don't agree with 'scoring' the bottom of the tip however as I think it would weaken the tip a bit although I know a lot of players do it.

I've tried various kinds of super glue and found it will crystalize after awhile from the constant impact I guess and the edge of the tip comes loose and when you take it off you can see chalk underneath it. I've also had the same thing happen with Tweeten's.

However, using a good epoxy cement I've never had a tip come off, not even once (yet - fingers crossed). I just put a Phoenix tip on my TW cue yesterday. I wait about 30 minutes for the epoxy to harden and then carefully shape the tip so the whole exercise takes around one hour.

One word of warning though, with any kind of tip DO NOT reduce the height of the tip as you will make it spongy. This happens with the Pro Granite tips, which are an excellent tip if installed correctly. I've also seen it happen with layered tips which some of are very thick (like the Aurora) but I've learned to never reduce the height.

Terry

[jaffa.johnson]

Fitting tips doesnt always have to take long.

I fitted a MW wooldridge supertip onto my 10mm cue and it took me 4 minutes including shaping. Other times I have fitted 11mm talisman on 9mm cue and this took longer as had to trim and shape.

If your fitting 10mm onto a 10mm ferrule then providing you stick it right first time and using super glue, you done in very quick time.

Time is taken up where you have to make the ferrule flat again so the tip sticks flat on top, (also if using the cheap tips like blue diamond you have to make these flat as well as they come in all shapes and sizes).

Some cue makers charge as low as £3.50 to fit a new tip with £5 prob being average (for elk/BD). I dont see them working for £3.50 an hour (not including cost of glue or tip).

[sealer]

I think it was Trevor on that video when he cuts the overhanging edges of the tip with a Stanley blade in around 5 seconds

[cyclone crouch]

if tips keep coming off, i think you will find the ferrel is not flat, if you follow MW guide and have a flat ferrel you will struggle to pull/bite your tip off!!!

[prince07799]

The main thing when changing a tip is to make sure the cue is clean of any glue or dust and you sand the back of your tip. I tend to use a over sized tip and trim them down to the ferrell. i do them for my mates and only ask the price of the tip (so cheep) when i first started to do them it took best part of an hour know it only takes 10 min's from star to finish take your time and jobs a good un

[steve clarke]

if tips keep coming off, i think you will find the ferrel is not flat, if you follow MW guide and have a flat ferrel you will struggle to pull/bite your tip off!!!

I think this may be the answer - Ive just had a look and it's not flat!

some filler needed I think!

Thanks to everyone who replied.

[coomsey76]

Don't put filler on it bud...... File it flat!!

[Deepscrew]

Steve:


One word of warning though, with any kind of tip DO NOT reduce the height of the tip as you will make it spongy. This happens with the Pro Granite tips, which are an excellent tip if installed correctly. I've also seen it happen with layered tips which some of are very thick (like the Aurora) but I've learned to never reduce the height.

Terry

I do reduce the height and get the spongy feeling which takes hours to go away. I dont like a large tip though either.

Can you cut the tip in half or will that ruin the whole thing?

[Terry Davidson]

Deepscrew:

To be honest I've never tried cutting down a tip in height with a sharf craft knife. I know Airin says you can do that with the Aurora layered tips but it will make them very hard, however they are very high with 7 layers I believe so the next time I need a tip I might try cutting a couple of layers off an Aurora and see how it goes.

I've just installed a Phoenix tip on my cue and it doesn't seem to be too high and also seems to play quite well too.

Terry

[Terry Davidson]

For Steve...do not use filler and file the ferrule flat using a fine metal fine (not a coarse one) just as coomsie advises.

The lesson learned here might just be that you've allowed your tip to get too worn and too hard and then if you miscue badly on a power shot it will impact the wood inside the ferrule and compact it. The filler won't be hard enough and much better to file everything down until you get to good solid wood inside the ferrule.

Terry

[steve clarke]

Thanks guys

[hotpot]

You can cut the bottom of tips to reduce the height . I think one of the biggest problems with tips coming loose is that there is not enough glue coverage all the way round the tip aspecially the outer edges . Once you press the tip firm you should see the excess glue come out right round the tip .