Glue in broadhead adapters?

[RedShaft]

For those of you who use broadhead adaptors. how do you glue them in with out melting the paint off? say on like a zwickey? i could use an epoxy type glue but if i was to use a hot melt type. any tips?

Secondly have you guys ever had a aluminum adapter fail? like on a bone hit with heavier arrow and bow?
didn't need to use the steell ones but idk how well the aluminums hold up? under normal circumstances I'm sure fine. but if i smash one into a heavy bone are they prone to fail/ break off at the threads? thanks!     :D

[Possum Head]

Heat the glue and rub stick on adapter. Then reheat a little and insert into head while twisting to evenly distribute.

[frassettor]

Jb weld

[Reaper TN]

I've used JB Weld and epoxy both with excellent results.

[J-dog]

Originally posted by Possum Head:
Heat the glue and rub stick on adapter. Then reheat a little and insert into head while twisting to evenly distribute.

What he said ^^^^^

I always do mine this way but really clean all the parts with denatured alcohol or laquer thinner.

I always use steel? But this year have titanium - I always end up fighting to get alignment! Titanium adapters and the one piece RMS cut throats made it easier this yr, but still little fight to get it right.

Luck,

J

[Orion]

Pretty easy to install adaptors without overheating the broad head.  Don't use a lot of glue or heat.  

I sometimes use aluminum adaptors.  Don't recollect ever wrecking one in an critter, but have bent a few on stumps and other hard objects.  Never sheared one off.  I figure if I bend one on a critter, so what.  It's accomplished it's job by then.

[Jon Stewart]

Never heard of a glue in adaptor fail.

In the 1st question? Are you concerned about the green paint coming off the broadhead? If so, why?  They are made to use and you will lose lots of paint if you shoot the arrow much with the head on. You need to heat the head and the adaptor to get a good bond.

[buckeyebowhunter]

JB weld

[Mike Faith]

use an alcohol burner instead of a torch, you must still use extreme caution with heat around carbon arrows...steel is the way to go for durability.

[Snow Crow]

A heat gun (paint remover) is a great alternative for using hot melt glue to bond inserts with broad heads and/or carbon shafts.

All I use are steel adapters: weight and strength up front.

[kennym]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Big Jim's cool(er) melt glue. I just got some and love it, doesn't take much heat to adjust head alignment.

[Fattony77]

I always just heated the adapter and the glue, never did heat the broadhead. But, I might've been doing it wrong all this time. I can only think of 1 time that I had any BH's come off of the adapter and I just figured that it was because I was using a Bic lighter that time and didn't get stuff hot enough.

As for the steel vs. aluminum question, I have never personally had any problems with the aluminum, but when I first started getting into putting them together myself, a buddy (that owns an archery shop) told me an horror story about him shooting a hog with one and it hit the shield, broke off at the BOP and he had to jump up onto a nearby rock to avoid getting mutilated by the angry boar that came after him. Because of that story, I started using steel, and have't had any reason to stop yet. That being said, I don't have any idea how long ago that was for him and quality could conceivably be better now. I just figured "better safe than sorry."