Who uses hot melt

[paxamus]

Hey guys,
I am so tired of bending inserts and having my arrows ruined. Does anyone use hot melt or cool melt so that they can replace their inserts? If so do you lose field points or inserts when using it in rhineheart targets or closed foam targets? I really spend time on my arrows and am meticulous, but this “one mistake and the arrow is ruined” thing is getting old and expensive ! Which ones do y’all recommend?


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[D.Rose]

Bohning cool flex hot melt is what I use and it works great. I have also used regular hot melt but you need to be careful you don't get it to hot or it will warp your carbon. Never had any issues losing inserts with the cool melt.

 

[5MilesBack]

I don't trust it or the cool melts, I've lost inserts with points or BH's on them in targets. I've never had that problem with good long cure 2-part epoxy. But I've also never had a problem bending inserts, mostly use HIT's. Outserts or halfouts on the other hand......ya, they bend. I definitely wouldn't trust hotmelt with those and all the extra lateral force on them. The only time I've had hotmelt work is in aluminum.

 

[Ucsdryder]

Never lost an insert to Walmart brand hot melt.

 

[D.Rose]

One thing with regular hot melt is if you don't heat it long enough for it to quit bubbling it will not hold. Make sure to melt all the bubbles out of it.

 

[Mighty Mouse]

I build all my arrows with Bohning Cool Flex. I've had two inserts pull out (in a particularly tight/dense target) over thousands of shots.

 

[xcutter]

I've had really good luck with this hot melt from Lancaster. Been using it for a long time.

Hot Melt Glue 5" Stick

Install points and inserts with a removable glue for the ability to customize your arrow build Low-temperature melting point hot melt Great for use with both aluminum and carbon arrows Size: 5" Stick

www.lancasterarchery.com

 

[WhatToHunt]

I have used hot melt with no issues and recently started using the blue cool flex and no issues to report yet.

 

[paxamus]

Thanks guys! I love to shoot at longer distances and as y’all know a little hiccup in form and your arrow goes awry very quickly. I’ve been using the Easton epoxy and when I miss with a heavy arrow, I’m bending Day Six and Ethics inserts/ outserts. I just wanted to try something that I could heat and remove the insert and try another one


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[buggz]

I have been using the regular hot melt from Bohning, Ferr-L-Tite.
May try the Bohning Cool Flex...

I have been using a butane torch for my arrow duties.
However, I am thinking a heat gun with adjustable heat setting and digital readout would
be the more safe solution for the arrow, and for not having an open flame?

 

[4ester]

Tried Cool Melt. Lost inserts on the very first shooting session.

Switched back to GT Tip Grip. No problem since.


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[Blockcaver]

Bohning Ferr-L-Tite Hotmelt glue for me for a four decades. Heat the glue up on the stick with a propane torch set as low as it will sustain a flame. Spin the carbon shaft in the glue, then quickly insert into the outsert (Firenock for me). Then gently heat the outsert that has a field point screwed in. Rotate the shaft several turns. Check shaft wobble and get the spin perfect...you can do this like a top on the workbench or put the arrow on a spinner. I use the spinning top method. Then set aside standing nearly vertical. After it cools I use my finger/thumb nail to remove the bead of excess Hotmelt at the outsert/shaft junction.

I've lost a couple outserts in the 6 or 7 years I've been shooting Injexions with Firenock outserts. I save components if a critter breaks a shaft. Lightly heat the outsert until you can pull it off the shaft. I like to put a field point in the outsert to grab onto with the vise or pliers.

 

[Planopurist]

I’ve lost inserts with the cool melt. I’m about to try the craft style hot melt.


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[wapitibob]

Use the right low temp hot melt, Stanley super strength. You can put points in with a lighter. Make sure the shaft is is clean. If you lose points with hot melt, you did it wrong.

 

[Mighty Mouse]

I have been using a butane torch for my arrow duties.
However, I am thinking a heat gun with adjustable heat setting and digital readout would
be the more safe solution for the arrow, and for not having an open flame?

Depending on the max temperature of the heat gun, it probably would be safer than a torch. But as long as you're applying the flame to the insert or glue stick (not the arrow shaft), there's little risk of damaging the arrow. I've installed somewhere in the low hundreds of inserts with hot melt and a propane torch with no issues.

 

[NXTZ]

I played with hot melt on the brass hits in Easton axis. They seemed to hold well, BUT I have noticed that when those arrows failed, it was always at the insert. Hearing some other guys speak to the durability of the axis hit system makes me wonder if the heat from the process was weakening the carbon. Went back to the Easton epoxy so I wouldn’t have to worry about it

 

[mrgreen]

After losing heads in block targets from hot melt I switched to AAE Max Impact. It holds great and I can remove with heat if I need to.

I put together a tool to heat and remove inserts (Iron Will in my case). I had one of these laying around, lucky that it's threaded 8-32 just like standard inserts.

 

[MattB]

Low temp hot melt is all I have used for years and I have had very few inserts pull out. As indicated above, if toy are losing inserts you are either using the wrong glue or are prepping/cleaning the interior of the shaft inadequately.

 

[Alpineelk]

Hot glue sticks in a hot glue gun as hot as it will get it had a few issues when I first started but onced I kinda learned how to do it haven't had a problem since.

 

[strut22]

Been using hot melt for quite some time. Works great unless I have a very solid impact which usually jars it loose. Easy to fix just heat and reglue