Footing carbons

[Buckeye1977]

Anyone ever try with success to take an aluminum footing off a carbon without messing up the arrow?

[Roadkill]

I put mine on with hot melt and my heat gun removes the.  Keep the gun moving

[Snow Crow]

Shooting into a new Rinehart target is my normal footing removal technique...

Like roadkill said, heat gun usually does the trick, even with super glue in place of hot melt.  Keep the heating as even as possible and avoid both direct heating of naked carbon and heavy twisting of footing.

[J. Cook]

It all depends on the glue used - if hot melt, no problem.  However, hot melt doesn't hold footings all that well in my experience so I use original gorilla glue.  I've never been able to get one off after using gorilla glue without compromising the shaft.

[Buckeye1977]

I figured it would probably tear the shaft up since I used insert iron. Not sure that I really want to try to remove one might just add some weight to the point or insert to get a better tune

[foxbo]

Why would you want to remove the footing? That's just one thing that I've never considered.

[kat]

I use loctite 380. They call it Blackmax. It holds very well, and I can remove footings when held over an alcohol burner. Again as mentioned above- keep it moving. Never burned a shaft when removing them. The loctite must be kept refrigerated.

[Buckeye1977]

Just an idea I was thinking about and wondered if  anyone had done it.

[M60gunner]

I had one yesterday that I tried to move back into place. I guess I heated it to much. Twisting it to go back into position I twisted the shaft as well leaving me with a short shaft. That's twice now, wonder if I will ever learn?

[Buckeye1977]

That's what I can't afford to do cause then my arrow would be worthless. Sometimes it's better to leave well enough alone I guess!

[DXH]

Footing question - what size aluminum shafts do you use for GT blems.. and when doing that will you use the aluminum insert or the carbon

[Buckeye1977]

Are you shooting .500 spine? If so 2117's worked for me. There is a thread in the how to section with sizes

[DXH]

I'm shooting 340 spine

[Buckeye1977]

Believe it would be a 2216 but you can check out the thread in the how to section to be sure

[Daz]

GT 340's (7595) should be 2219. 2216's fit 400's (5575).
If you like to double up footings, 2413's fit over either of the two above.

I'm not sure about shafts other than GT though.

[DJ Hardy]

Are you trying to weaken the shaft?
If so would you not stiffen it by removing the footing