what to glue brass inserts in with???

[LKH]

Have cleaned shaft inside and insert w/acetone and then used Goat Tuff for years.  Never had one pull.  You can rough up the brass w/sandpaper.  Its so good that I got slow and have two arrows where I never got the insert in completely.  Good practice arrows.

[Charlie Cole]

I have heard (re: fiberglass/epoxy surfboard repair) that cleaning with alcohol can leave a residue that  interferes with the epoxy bond. I don't use it. Damp cloth is all I use. It gets the dust and grit off, and by the time I finish cleaning the shafts and inserts, the first arrow is dry and ready for glue-up.

That said, the .22 or .270 barrel cleaning brush is GREAT for rough-up. I even sandpaper the outsides of the inserts, and using the slow-set epoxy, I'm not sure you could pull mine out with a truck.

-Charlie

[Outwest]

I second the amber hot melt. You can get it out with heat.
3 years on the last set of arrows and not one has come loose yet.

John

[skarcher]

When I was bareshafting I decided to use hotmelt just to make it easier to change to a broadhead adapter. Used a 22 cal. brush soaked in acetone to clean shaft with a q-tip followup to clean and dry. To my surprise they wouldn't pull out even when driven into a 2x4. (Bareshafting can sometimes be interesting!) Seeing as how they held together as good as the epoxy I had previously been using, that's all I use now. Very easy to change if you make sure to only heat a point screwed into the adapter and only just enough to pull it free.

Harry

[jeff / sc]

I've had good luck with just plain super glue..I score the inside of the shaft first.