Using NPV on carbon arrows

[McDave]

As I mentioned in another post, I usually use fletchtite platinum when I fletch carbon arrows, and NPV when I fletch aluminum arrows.  But I don’t fletch aluminum arrows much these days, so I decided to use up the rest of a tube of NPV on carbon arrows so it wouldn’t go bad.  The NPV seems to work fine, but I changed my mind about the fletching I had put on the arrows, and wanted to remove the feathers on a half dozen arrows that I had glued up with NPV.

I use a Zip Stick to remove feathers, and when they are fletched with fletchtite, I normally just give a nudge on the quill end of the fletching and the feather zips off like the name of the tool.  With NPV, a nudge doesn’t do it, I have to give an aggressive shove like I was pushing a garden trowel into the ground, followed by a lot of scraping the get the residual glue off the shaft.  Fortunately, I have defletched a lot of arrows and can do this without digging into the carbon shaft, but when I was new at this, I’m sure I would have ruined a few of these.

The bottom line is that NPV seems to stick much more permanently on carbon shafts than fletchtite, although fletchtite seems to stick adequately and I haven’t lost any feathers recently that were glued on with fletchtite.  But since defletching arrows is a rare occurrence, I think I’ll stick with NPV for both carbon and aluminum in the future.

[Alexander Traditional]

I switched about a year ago,and I do both. I'm sure not going back to anything else.

[Rock 'N Bow]

I'd tried NPV on aluminum as well as carbon. It has worked incredibly well with everything except for carbons with no finish, i.e. Arrow Dynamics black shafts. In fact, feathers came off in flight. I know preparation is key, but I couldn't get a good bond.

[Terry Green]

Error Dysfunctions SUCK!!!!!