M-1 Cut

[bdj 0]

Well after a stupid goal last game I smashed my lovely M-1 over the bench. So after some remorse and a win I took my baby home and started to operate. When I cut it there was a foam and a black cement kind of stuff. So I cut about an inch higher and the cement got wider kinda and there was still foam.

I cut my stick just below the Mission logo and the second time I cut it was just going into the logo. I mesured up a R2 wood and this is about a half inch higher then where It mesured up perfectly.

After I found out the foam and black cement was still there I took a phillips scredriver and hammered it through the foam. I saw the foam went about an inch to an inch and a half.

Now I figure I can cut to where the foam ends and go from there but I think it would be to big for a tapered blade to fit in. My other option it to whip out my dremel and try and rip that stuff out. If you look at the pictures you can see where theres kind of a line from the shaft walls and the cement. I guess I could cut alonfg there but I dont know if it will hurt thr shafts durability. I want to know what I should do about my problem. BTW I cant flip it because if I did then I wouldnt be able to put a knob into the end and it would be way to short for me.

[GTHL_AAA_HOCKEY 0]

I think you have to heat it up, and push all that stuff out. i remember someone on cb cut his m-1.

[Ryan_04 0]

My first choice would be to try and chisel out the remaining piece of the tenon in the shaft. If that failed, I'd just cut it until the tenon is completely gone. If the blade dosn't fit properly after that, then just tape it up. I had to tape up everyone of the tapered blades I've used so that it'd fit in a cut ops (with the exception of my Igor Korolev Response shaft becuase of its a massive taper).

[EricG. 0]

Heat it up and then chisel it out. It'll make it easier.

[GTHL_AAA_HOCKEY 0]

I remember someone else saying to cut it in the middle of the M.

[Buzz_LightBeer 973]

you couldve heated and removed the blade had you not cut it at all...

[Icedog03 0]

I remember someone else saying to cut it in the middle of the M.

That was me it worked great Ive had Ether and Synthesis blades in there and the both fit.

[tyler33 0]

Heat it up and then chisel it out. It'll make it easier.

Yea it does. The first time I cut a one piece I didn't know that and it took me a couple hours to chizzle it all out. After that I figured out that if you heat it up, it chizzles out a lot easier.

[bdj 0]

Well after our game today(CITY CHAMPS WOOOOOOOOOO) I came home to my M-1. I decided I would wait until tomorrow to chisel it out but I got the brilliant idea to take out the end plug. So I moved to my oven and removed the plug. The first thing I saw was a grey foam about 3 inches down. So I took some scizors and pulled that sucker out. It looked like this, kind of a sponge more then an actual foam. The size is here too. Notice it's slightly bigger then the shaft walls.

After I pulled this out I tipped the shaft over and out came some light grey chips, almost felt liker plastic. Here is a picture.

I am wondering if this is part of the shaft? Or just the cement used to fuse the blade. I dont know. When I took the plug out it seemed to flex more and it has a hollow feel. When I knock the shaft on the ground it sounds like plastic and vibrates alot more. There is no real point to this post, I just thought it was weird.

[hattrick74 0]

i had a similar problem with a true one, i had to chizel out everything with a screwdriver, then sand down the blade

[Buzz_LightBeer 973]

that grey stuff is what fuses the shaft and blade, and i think the sponge is there to soak up any excess glue, so if a piece of glue were to come loos it wouldnt make vibration noises

[LegoDoom 0]

I think you cut it too high. If I remember correctly, you're supposed to cut in the middle of the Aldila logo.

[tyler9 0]

I remember someone else saying to cut it in the middle of the M.

Thats exactly what i did. The blade fit like a charm(R2).

[bdj 0]

I'll have to cut there then. Anybody know if a dremel would be good to cut the shaft or bore out the extra stuff inside the shaft with?

[Icedog03 0]

When I cut mine in the middle of the M all that was left in the shaft was a piece of black foam that you could pull right out.

[Biskitindabaskit 0]

a had the same problem with my 02 synergy. I had to chisel it out. i pushed it out the other way instead of pulling it out. good luck

[SLy MaLLone 0]

you couldve heated and removed the blade had you not cut it at all...

I'm looking to stick a blade in my old M1, the blade is still intact, to do it the heat and pull way should I cut it at all around the fuse point? or how does this work?

[Icedog03 0]

the blade is still intact

Is the blade still good or broken but you havnt cut it off yet?

[SLy MaLLone 0]

It's not like broken in two, but it's basically useless it has a horizontal puck height split all down the blade.

[rh_joel 0]

I've cut two in the middle of the 'M' and they both worked like a charm.

[SLy MaLLone 0]

I'll probably do that, now all I need is a job so I can buy a blade.

[Skokan 0]

For reffernce... this is what I posted on CB:

Hi folks,

I just spent 2 day cutting and managing to get a tapered blade in my M-1.

AND IT WORKED!!!

Here's the detailed story for those intrested:

It was an Mission M-1 Pro version signed by Anson Carter.

I played 2 months of Inline hockey with it till the bottom was all worn out. Didn't last as long as I expected but I loved the shaft.

So I read this topic... and gave it a go...

First I tried to heat it and simply hoped to pull somthin' out... nope didn't work.

But when heating the paint cracled a little and I could see a fuse point appear.

But no matter how much I heated or pulled it... it just wouldn't move.

Then I cut it some centimeters lower than the fuse point. I found it was filled with some foam and had, as mentionned in aboves posts, a middle wall in it. I tried to cut it out put this was impossible... But according to my measurements it could fit a tapered shaft if I just could get that tripple wall out. After some hours triing... hope was all gone.

Then I cut of some other slices, untill I got to the fuse point, at my desperate surprice, the outer walls became much thicker... not suitable for any blade tenon.

As said some posts above, "cut in the middle of the evil M and it will fit a tapered blade just fine..." I did that... and found out I had just lost one centimeter too much...

So for all you triing this... cut 1 CM BELOW the middle of the evil "M", this is where the fuse point was in my case.

So I found out the cavity would never fit any blade, so I decided to use some more drastic techniques... I got my drill out, and enlargened the hole (still with that awfull middle wall). I managed to get the middle wall out by cracling it down bit by bit with the point of my drill. Once this was done, I had one big round-cornered hole and not large enough to fit a blade.

On the cut surface, I could see a thin white line... that looks like glue or something... I tried again to heat it, hammering on it... nothing moved.

So I needed to enlarge the hole... file it out.

After filing a pretty long time, I got real close to white line, but my hole wasn't as neat as I would have liked it and I started to think about filing some of the blade tenon... I wasn't keen on doing that...

So in a last hope, I heated it again. While it was hot, poked the white line with a screwdriver, and at my amasement, I could peel the innner side off... (you now, the remainder of the original blade's tenon).

So in conclusion, it is a Shaft with a tapered bade in it but fused with a non heatable glue.

And finaly, I have a Mission M-1 Tapered Shaft with an Easton Hibrid Syntesis blade in it... and it seems to do the job pretty well.

The only concern I have now... where am I going to find replacement tapered blades??? Can't find any in Belgium...

[Buzz_LightBeer 973]

It's not like broken in two, but it's basically useless it has a horizontal puck height split all down the blade.

heat it well and pull the blade out....

[bdj 0]

Well I cut in the middle of that "evil m" yesterday and I had to pull out some foam and glue stuff but a tapered blade fits fine. I will take pics when I get home.

[xunkn0vvnx 0]

Does anyone have these pictures still on file ??