FITTING A NEW GOLF SHAFT ADAPTOR USING HOUSEHOLD ITEMS | GOLF TIPS

In today's video we're at Tankersley Park Golf Club with one of the channels favourite golf pro's, Sam Sharman.
We'll be teaching the subscribers how to re-shaft / fit a new golf club adaptor from home, using household materials.
Golf Club Repairs @garymartingolf

[@rafabonati7757]

I enjoy the DIY projects. It not only saves money, but it gives one a satisfying feeling of accomplishment. A video like this allows a golfer to have step by step instructions as they work on it, stopping the video as needed. I think I would practice on an old club from a second hand shop before attempting gamer clubs.

[@colinpears8357]

I'd always subscribe to the 'slowly, slowly catch the donkey' technique 🐴. It never fails. Love ya Sam 👌

[@garymartingolf]

🙌🏼

[@kenlightfoot7944]

Very interesting and some great tips in there.

[@travisg.1310]

Been doing my own repairs for a year or so. Nice video guys super helpfull!!

[@hudsonrilke]

Great stuff. I do my own regripping these days, easy when you know how.

[@johnarmstrong1452]

Great content lads. Team working at its best. You definitely know what your subscribers like. I don’t trust my DIY skill’s enough to carry out any changes needed to my clubs and hand my clubs over to my golf Pro to sort. My thinking behind my decision is I am supporting my golf Pro. Cheers

[@quadrapayunir]

great video...Sam should have an episode a week in the workshop

[@garymartingolf]

Anything else you’d like to see?

[@Divegrohl90]

I've had succes with wrapping the graphite bit of the shaft with aluminium foil. And then use a properly sized washer in between the adapter and the endscrew. Then you take the back of a hammer, the nail puller part and pull it when you smell the epoxy. You can even put the Hammer with the handle pointing up and pull the shaft off. Ez as 123

[@mattjons1074]

Great stuff guys , I do re grips at home and done maybe 10 sets now , be good to see changing a shaft on non adjustable club as I want to do my hybrid

[@loutennant99]

Thanks. So helpful. Here in Italy getting things like grips and adapters fitted is difficult. Can do grips and now👍👍👍👍

[@chrisjeffers7300]

Great job, boys!

[@ladgolf6330]

Useful little vid Gaz, some of us love tinkering with the clubs, and these kinds of videos make great content. Here's one for you and Sam, a friend gave us a set of Callaway X-16's for Jamie - he shortened them an inch and re-gripped them (he used to work in a Pro's Shop), but as Jamie is only 12, and not the biggest stature, the clubs are a touch heavy. I've seen other golf club fitters talk about grinding weight off the clubs to lighten them - is this something that could be done succesfully, and if so how would you go about it?

[@garymartingolf]

I’m not going to lie, that’s abit above my knowledge of club adjustments. I would be worried though, any lightening of the head would make the club shaft play stiffer which wouldn’t be ideal for a 12 year old. My advice would be to get them on eBay and use the funds to find something better suited 👌🏼

[@ladgolf6330]

@@garymartingolf We'll just keep hold of them mate, another year and they'll be perfect for him - They're even handy to have as a spare set for myself and owe me nothing.

[@billwilson8926]

Ever thought of counter balance maybe put a few grams of weight in but if club will lighten the over all weight Just an idea

[@tommiethatcher7265]

What a cracking video and I would love to see a workshop video on shaft repairs

[@bradwarren1713]

Nice job that 👍 I've always liked the coffee shop wooden stirers for epoxy. And if you don't have a vice (or friend) a black and decker workmate is another decent clamp. Use a bit of old cycle inner tube for extra grip.

[@edwardhutchinson1093]

Great video guys, I learned some things!

[@garymartingolf]

Brill 👌🏼

[@williamklingenberg108]

Great video. Very informative. Anyone at home with a heat gun would have a vice. Keep up the goodwork

[@darrenarbergolf]

There are lots of club repairs you can do from home. You do need a few basic tools. I do loads of repairs and love it. It’s a great part of my job.

[@simonward1381]

Great vid very interesting

[@garymartingolf]

Thanks

[@billwilson8926]

Gaz another thing to use if you don’t have a vice clap use an old grip cut it into couple pieces and use it in your vice I use to do that back in the day before all these fancy gadgets we have now

[@garymartingolf]

That’s a great tip. I’ve never done it, but it’s a great do it from home tip 👌🏼👌🏼

[@cindywootton480]

I got a cheap Stanley vice on Amazon. Table top one that just clamps on. Brilliant bit of moveable kit. Re gripped loads of clubs with it.

[@garymartingolf]

How much was it ? 😬

[@cindywootton480]

£19.99, Gaz. STANLEY 1-83-069 MAXSTEEL Multi Angle Vice

[@garymartingolf]

@@cindywootton480 wow, that’s class! I thought they’d be way more expensive 😳

[@renmay3171]

Don’t know about the UK, but online you can buy “grip kits” for do it yourself re gripping. They include 13 grips, 13 strips of premeasured double sided tape, small bottle of spirits, AND a rubber shaft clamp you can put in your vise. At a decent price usually.

[@garymartingolf]

That’s brilliant!! No, we don’t have them in the UK. I’ll have a Google search 🔍

[@haznick]

Great vid. I've also seen some people cut shafts using those small pipe cutter tools instead of a hacksaw. Might be slightly easier and make it a one man job.

[@garymartingolf]

You can’t cut graphite with a pipe cutter. Just steel 👌🏼👌🏼

[@haznick]

@@garymartingolf Ah yes good point Gaz. Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew that.... :)

[@shaunwestray6606]

Very good vid thanks really interesting could you show how to remove the broken shaft from the head that’s left still from the break thanks

[@garymartingolf]

That’s a great one 👌🏼 It’s on the list 🙌🏼

[@waynekelly6017]

Great video. I like doing my own repairs and for mates. Would like to see how to remove a scotty putter grip that can be reused using home workshop

[@garymartingolf]

We could do it, but there’s a tool you’d have to buy and they’re not cheap 🥴 About £40

[@waynekelly6017]

@@garymartingolf I’ve seen them just seeing if there was another way. Keep up the good work

[@matthewcritchley1214]

Great video, work shop video please.👍

[@garymartingolf]

Doing it with the work shop items ??

[@peegev1]

In shortening the club by 1/2 inch why take it off the tip end rather than the grip end?

[@garymartingolf]

The customer asked for it tip stiffening. He wanted the shaft to play slightly firmer in flex. We should of explained that actually.

[@royclose946]

Well done gaz I want 2 surestroke putter grips doing but there hard to get the old ones off ha 😀

[@garymartingolf]

Getting old superstroke putter grips off! Near impossible to do with damaging them 😩

[@darrenarbergolf]

You need a grip shoot mate, I’ve got loads of superstores off when people need there putter shortening. You have to be really careful thou.

[@garymartingolf]

@@darrenarbergolf do you mean, one of them rods with a handle on?

[@darrenarbergolf]

@@garymartingolf yes they are the ones, I did a video a couple of weeks ago, was a rubber grip but work with Superstrokes.

[@barrymurton8988]

What do you do if there isn’t an andaptor on the head, as per my Adams 7 wood? Having cleaned up the shaft and drilled out the head of the crap what do you you stick the shaft in with?

[@garymartingolf]

We’re recording that as you speak

[@barrymurton8988]

@@garymartingolf thanks for the incredibly quick response, I look forward to seeing it. I loved my Adams 7wood but the shaft broke off at the head - I have now managed to get a replacement on golf bidder but did wonder if I could repair and even use the old shaft! I will wait with baited breath! Cheers guys.

[@cindywootton480]

Brilliant, thank you 👍🏻

[@garymartingolf]

Thanks Cindy 👍🏼

[@nebraska39]

Interesting you use bog standard epoxy, the stuff from the club making suppliers is very expensive.

[@johntown1454]

How easy is it to change a non adjustable shaft in a fairway wood please Gaz?

[@garymartingolf]

Very, we’ll do it next 👌🏼

[@renmay3171]

Not hard at all, just make sure you have the right tip size. Newer woods are predominantly .335, but some of the older stuff from 2015 and before used .350. You can put a .335 shaft into a .350 hosel/head, but you would need a shim. You can not safely get a .350 shaft into a .335 hosel.

[@nojosm]

3 hrs to a pro shop here in France !

[@garymartingolf]

How far from a course ?

[@nojosm]

@@garymartingolf only 35 mins but no pro shop

[@johnfreeman3988]

Thought that I heard Sam say he charges £34.99 for changing an adapter…can’t have been right because I had 5 putter grips changed from different putters and 3 adapters changed from various shafts onto other shafts and it only cost me £35…done by Ryan Rastall at Howley Hall

[@garymartingolf]

This is if you need a new adaptor and grip. Not changing them over ✌🏼

[@johnfreeman3988]

@@garymartingolf Ryan also put a new putter grip on one of the putters as well…still only came to £35!!

[@d.g.t6087]

Would the gorilla epoxy be strong enough to do this?

[@golfguru0962]

Can you save the adapters ?

[@garymartingolf]

You can, but adapters usually have a fitted ferrule which gets damaged and a universal ferrule replacement doesn’t usually fit as flush, it’s also tricky to remove them without damaging the paint due to the heat which is applied. I’d always prepare by buying a new adapter, but to answer your question, you could if you really wanted to re-use one 👍🏼

[@golfguru0962]

@@garymartingolf cheers Gary thanks for the info

[@barrymurton8988]

Work mate would, not just Gary!

[@lexxwhite747]

Sadly Gaz, nothing is idiot-proof, the best we can hope for is idiot-resistant.

[@garymartingolf]

Ahaha 🤣