Warrior AK27 XL shaft

[Patrick67 1]

I recently purchased a Warrior AK27 XL shaft, which is a standard shaft.

But much to my dismay none of my standard tenon blades can fit in it, or to rephrase..... they fit but that's without using a heatgun and alot of space to spare. I've tried with 5 different standard blades, so it's definitely the shaft fault.

Can recall a bauer shaft a I bought a few years back with exactly the same problem...

My question is why does this occur to a brand new shaft that's never been used? Shipping, production/bad batch or something else?

[Keith 0]

Standard blades are nothing of the sort in my experience. If the slack isn't huge, shim it with hockey tape.

[habsfan87 0]

I'm sure it just slipped through production, they can't check 100%, but where did you buy it, could you exchange it for a different one while it's stil new? If not try some hockey tape, if one strip on each side works it shouldnt affect performance too much at all.

[team50 20]

I've never used a warrior shaft or blade, but could it be that the fit is optimized pairing the two together rather than mixing and matching?

[firestud17 0]

take it back to where you bought it. prove to them its a defect by showing the size of a standard ak27 blade vs. the shaft size and then they will see it is incorrect.

[TBLfan 25]

That's weird, the warrior shafts I've put blade is are some of the tightest I've done... Only issues with koho tapered blades with the smallest tenons EVER in the history of life. In fact, that's warriors new campaign, "Warrior shafts, tighter than your baby sister."

[firestud17 0]

lol watch out warrior might steal that from you.

[fatwabbit 93]

are you able to pull the butt end out? then maybe try a blade there instead?

Dont think it would affect it much, as its not a tapered shaft... unless its got a different flex zone or something but I doubt that.

[camhockey16 5]

i had the same problem with the XL i bought and i just flipped the stick and put the blade in the other end. its a little less than ideal solution - but it worked.

[sniper_23 0]

I recently purchased a Warrior AK27 XL shaft, which is a standard shaft.

But much to my dismay none of my standard tenon blades can fit in it, or to rephrase..... they fit but that's without using a heatgun and alot of space to spare. I've tried with 5 different standard blades, so it's definitely the shaft fault.

Can recall a bauer shaft a I bought a few years back with exactly the same problem...

My question is why does this occur to a brand new shaft that's never been used? Shipping, production/bad batch or something else?

Same thing happened to me with the standard AK grip shaft. I tried to put a one95 blade in and the tenon did not fit. The rounded shaft corners prevented the blade from going in. The width/height would accept the blade but the corners prevented it from going in.

[habsfan87 0]

I wonder if all/any stick companies have to or do follow a standard (ie ISO9001) so that all the tolerances they follow, actually do follow or if all companies use the same standard for that sort of thing. They're obviously universal but as far as specs go I wonder how close they all have to be. We all know things slip between the cracks and most times don't affect anything, usually due to over engineering but you wouldn't think things would get too out of hand

[DEATHTRON 19]

Reminds me of the TPS response xn10 armor....the sizing on that stick was OFF! All of the them (that I ran into) were slightly too big.

Zach

[Patrick67 1]

i had the same problem with the XL i bought and i just flipped the stick and put the blade in the other end. its a little less than ideal solution - but it worked.

The shaft came with a butend, I checked and can definintely put a standard blade in that end.

I recall an old post regarding the regular AK27, that said the AK27 doesn't have an engineered kickpoint, if that's the case(?) I'll just flip mine since the performance should be the same?

[Hockeyman11385 1]

You could try the S15 blade. That has a slightly larger tenon to fit the S15 stick.

[horse86 0]

Same thing happened to me with the standard AK grip shaft. I tried to put a one95 blade in and the tenon did not fit. The rounded shaft corners prevented the blade from going in. The width/height would accept the blade but the corners prevented it from going in.

I have a Ak27 "fiber core" I believe the name of it and I am using a one95 blade in it with out any problems. Yes it was a very tight fit. In fact I didn't think it was going to go in at first but you need to really heat the shaft up so it expands a bit. Get the blade started, grip the neck of the blade and hit the butt end off the ground to force the blade all the way in.

[Cole13 0]

That is odd because i just got the exact same thing, and havent had a problem at all.. must of just been a bad one that slipped though with out anyone noticing