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Pulling blade out of mission pulse

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well, i just did it, this was the first time I've tried to convert a broken OPS and i have to say it was real easy, i just heated the shit out of the thing over the stove, stepped on the blade to get leverage, and pulled like crazy and the blade popped right out. I'll throw some pics of the shaft and blade up later, and as soon as i put a new blade in ill post that as well. I just figured I'd let everyone know as it was discussed in another topic and some people said they had had horrible experiences trying to pull blades out of Mission OPS.

edit* just ran into a problem while trying to insert a blade, the hosel on the pulse blade is much shorter than the one on the synthesis woody i'm trying to put in it, there is something blocking the shaft (foam and either glue or composite or all three) so that a blade with a normal length hosel won't fit. i don't really want to chisel it out because i'm not thinking it's just glue because i gave her a little chiseling with a screwdriver and didn't budge it, so i was wondering if there was any harm in cutting the hosel of the wood blade down to the size of the stock blade?

wow, i just threadjacked my own thread. ha!

edit #2* nevermind, i chiseled it out with the screwdriver, just took a little extra elbow grease haha. Wow, this thing feels awesome, i think it may end up being my number 1 stick.

bum ba da bum... pics

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Sweet I get to use my Pulse again. The blade was the only problem I had with the stick and I think that was just a mishap during a game. Not the blade being or poor quality or something like that.

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that's pretty cool.

but doesn't heating up the shaft cause adverse affects to performance? I know it says that on the side of my Easton shaft.

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that's pretty cool.

but doesn't heating up the shaft cause adverse affects to performance? I know it says that on the side of my Easton shaft.

How do you take a blade out of your shaft? You heat it. But I think too much heating can cause something to go wrong with the stick. Since the Pulse is a fused OPS I think it will be okay.

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How do you take a blade out of your shaft? You heat it. But I think too much heating can cause something to go wrong with the stick. Since the Pulse is a fused OPS I think it will be okay.

But how much heating is too much? I don't mean take a blow torch to it or anything, but a stove isn't cool either.

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I understand what you are saying. I only use the heat neccesary to get the blade out. Not much more should be used. That's probably where you will see the effects of too much heating.

Just enough to pull that blade out is what is needed.

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You sure that the reason why the synthesis blade didn't fit because there was glue? maybe its the other ha;f of the tenon of the blade thats stuck in there because thats looks way too short to be normal, because you shove that blade into a stick and i bet the shaft would slip down the sides.

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i've been able to remove broke blades fro m hte following sticks:

warrior dolomite (3)

tps r6

easton syngery (6)

for easton you'll need a long stick that is tapered to fit inside the shaft. you heat up the fuse poitn until its extremely hot and put the stick inside from the handle and slam it hard on concrete and it should pop out. as far as using too much heat dont use it until it cools and you shouold have no problem.

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What exactly was wrong with the blade anyways? I see only one blemish on the back side of the blade.

there is a crack on the bottom of it that runs half the length of the blade, its really wierd, never happened to me before.

How didnt you burn it? Was it easy?

i just heated it until i saw a little smoke, then i took it away from the heat and pulled, the first time it didn't budge so i heated till i saw smoke again and pulled with a little wiggle and flex and it came right out. i'd say it was fairly easy. again, this was the first time i've done this and i think it came out almost perfect so overall, not all that hard.

You sure that the reason why the synthesis blade didn't fit because there was glue? maybe its the other ha;f of the tenon of the blade thats stuck in there because thats looks way too short to be normal, because you shove that blade into a stick and i bet the shaft would slip down the sides.

i thought that at first too, but after further examination of the blade, the top of the tenon is perfectly flat, and the stuff in the shaft chiseled out fairly easy with just a few scrapes and jiggles with a flathead screwdriver. i did find it odd how the tenon was so short though.

the blade that came out still does have a nice feel to it, it's just that it now opens up when i shoot, so i think i'll stick it in a shaft for screwing around in the basement stickhandling.

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Damn. I posted about chiseling an L-2 and A Fuel shaft. There's no way that either of those sticks could have been heated and pulled, and both had normal sized tenons.

I know that both the M1/L-2 and the Fuel stick have "Powered By Aldila" (Golf Graphite manufacturing company) on them, and I think I read somewhere that Mission used a different company for the Pulse, so that may have something to do with it. Good to know that it can be pulled right out.

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there is a crack on the bottom of it that runs half the length of the blade, its really wierd, never happened to me before.

I've had a couple of pulse blades crack that way. I think it's a design flaw.

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there is a crack on the bottom of it that runs half the length of the blade, its really wierd, never happened to me before.

weird. my L-2 blades awhile back cracked the same way. could be something with the way they're constructed.

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If i'm not mistaken, Easton says on their shafts to not apply open flame. That's all that comes to mind right now, I could be forgetting a part about overheating?

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If i'm not mistaken, Easton says on their shafts to not apply open flame. That's all that comes to mind right now, I could be forgetting a part about overheating?

Easton does say that open flame will void the warrenty, as to it compromising the durrability of the stick, I took a blowtorch to a warrior macdaddy last season to get a standard blade out of the tapered end (not a good descision on my part to jam that thing in there in the first place) anyway, i haven't noticed any problemns with it since then, seems to be holding up fine.

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i've been able to remove broke blades fro m hte following sticks:

warrior dolomite (3)

tps r6

easton syngery (6)

for easton you'll need a long stick that is tapered to fit inside the shaft. you heat up the fuse poitn until its extremely hot and put the stick inside from the handle and slam it hard on concrete and it should pop out. as far as using too much heat dont use it until it cools and you shouold have no problem.

Hey how did you do it with your dolomites im having trouble taking the blade out of a prostock one i found.

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i've been able to remove broke blades fro m hte following sticks:

warrior dolomite (3)

tps r6

easton syngery (6)

for easton you'll need a long stick that is tapered to fit inside the shaft. you heat up the fuse poitn until its extremely hot and put the stick inside from the handle and slam it hard on concrete and it should pop out. as far as using too much heat dont use it until it cools and you shouold have no problem.

Hey how did you do it with your dolomites im having trouble taking the blade out of a prostock one i found.

i used a blow torch and a vise. i heated the shaft and put the blade end in the vise and pulled. and it popped out. also be aware that some dolomites pro returns are in fact true-1s. i found that out with a starski

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What exactly was wrong with the blade anyways? I see only one blemish on the back side of the blade.

there is a crack on the bottom of it that runs half the length of the blade, its really wierd, never happened to me before.

That happened to my pulse too except mine ran almost all the way down the bottom of the blade. It has never happened to any other stick i've used.

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