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Author Topic: ferrules  (Read 372 times)

Offline osageo

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ferrules
« on: December 19, 2007, 05:54:00 AM »
need to find out where i can purchase 5 degree taper ferrules to put on new broadheads i designed.

Offline numbfinger

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Re: ferrules
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2007, 06:07:00 AM »
3 rivers and  bowhunters superstore, are two places you could get them.

{ sorry, i was thinking about adapters}

Offline elk ninja

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Re: ferrules
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2007, 09:30:00 AM »
Never heard of just buying the ferrules.... the problem you'd run into is alignment.  Minute amounts off would translate into wobble along the whole arrow... that said, you could use an adapter and weld those suckers on (although without machinery, I'd imagine you are going to end up with wobble), but you were looking for glue on ferrules....
Mike
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Offline SlowBowinMO

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Re: ferrules
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2007, 09:35:00 AM »
Howard Hill Archery used to sell just the ferrules for the Hill broadheads, not sure if they still do or not but it would be worth checking into.
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Offline **DONOTDELETE**

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Re: ferrules
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2007, 09:43:00 AM »
use a old field point, someone did a how-2 on making a BH cut from a saw blade & used a field point as the ferrule.

Offline draco

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Re: ferrules
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2007, 11:37:00 PM »
The company that Glen St. Charles son has,(the name escapes me right now) has them. I`ve bought some from them before. They are very nice and very cheap. I had a machine shop make me a drill bit shaped the same as the ferrule. I clamped two pieces of 1/2" aluminum plate together,spaced apart with pieces of my blade material and drilled in the slot to center. Take apart,clamp the ferrule in the groove you drilled,clamp the blade around it,and silver solder it,and your basically done. Perfectly centered every time.

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