Endplugs

[raygunpk 0]

I'm trying to add an endplug to a NBH One70 stick, but it's not fitting at all. The endplug is too big.

This is my first time adding an extension, am I suppose to shave it down beforehand? I figure that would take out the glue..

[Rustpot 1]

I plugged a One70 just fine. It took a bit more heat, but it went in all the same. It was a bitch and a half to get out when I was doing plug swaps a week ago though.

I used a spare composite Easton plug.

[pantherfan 0]

I assume you've put a blade in before, same concept, if its too big shave it down and re-glue.

Jamming in a butt-end thats too big can split your shaft if you're not careful.

[raygunpk 0]

The shaft on the One70 seems rounded at the corners while the endplug is completely squared, I guess I should shave the corners down. The only tools I have in this house are a hammer, screwdriver and a saw lol, dammit.

Rustpot, do you mean you heated up the plug or the shaft more? I assume more heat would make it softer so it would slide in better?

[Rustpot 1]

I heated the piss out of the shaft. When the plug came out it seemed fine.

It did take a blowtorch and two guys at either end to get it loose though.

The Montreal shaft I have has and oval profile inside. I jammed a wood plug in the end when all was cold and it gave me a good starting spot as to how much material to file off. 10 minute with the file later and I have a plug seemlessly fit into the odd-shape hole.

Go get a $5 file (half round 2 grit is what I've got), I can't count how many times I've used that sucker to finish fresh cut plugs, match the radius of the square plug to the rounded shaft, give concavity to a plug to match a shaft, etc.

[Goonsquad 209]

The shaft on the One70 seems rounded at the corners while the endplug is completely squared, I guess I should shave the corners down. The only tools I have in this house are a hammer, screwdriver and a saw lol, dammit.

Rustpot, do you mean you heated up the plug or the shaft more? I assume more heat would make it softer so it would slide in better?

Knife or razor blade should do the job. If you had a file even that would do the trick.. I chamfered the corners to fit in rounded shaft before..