Knurled limb bolt question

[buckeyebowhunter]

This may be a silly question but I recently acquired some of the no tool limb bolts, the style with the black knurled knob and I am wondering if I am supposed to glue the bolt in that comes with them or just thread it some into the riser and then put the limb over it and thread the knurled knob on. When i thread the actual bolt all the way into my riser it only leaves me with 3 or 4 actual threads and looks a little iffy when screwing the knurled knob on if i back the bolt out some it seems to be okay but I'm just not sure if I'm doing it correctly.

[McDave]

I have a set of limb bolts like that.  Clearly, you want to have an adequate number of threads that mesh on each side.  With mine, I screwed the bolt into the knob first, and then screwed the knob and bolt into the riser, which gave me plenty of meshing threads on each side.  I hadn’t considered glueing it into the riser, nor do I think I would want to do that.

[jess stuart]

I have always glued the knob to the bolt.

[buckeyebowhunter]

Thanks guys.

[McDave]

One additional consideration is whether someday you might want to get a pair of antler or other decorative knobs.  They will come tapped for the same bolt, and if the bolt is not glued onto the knob, you can easily switch between the knobs.