Can't get my inserts out.

[Junkers88]

I need to pull the inserts out of my carbons and for the life of me I cant' get them out. They are 100g brass inserts and I used a rather liberal amount of fletching glue to hold them in. I've tried the drill-bit slide-hammer thing with no luck.

Help?


Richard

[Walker]

Put target points in them and heat the points, then pull.

[Dkincaid]

Drill bit has always worked for me. I know a lot of folks use heat I haven't had good luck with heat.

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[DRT]

I use heat as directed.

[Saddle Tramp]

I only use old school heat insert glue never had one stick.
But you might try a small ez-out.

[Junkers88]

I tried some heat but might not have gotten it hot enough, will try that again if I can locate my little hand torch. If I can get them out I'm going to use the correct glue when they go back in.

Thanks folks!
Richard

[stone386]

Drillbit method on carbons. I'd never use heat on carbons. Drop a drill bit in the nock end. Hit the insert from the inside.

[Bisch]

The drill bit is the safest way. If you do the heating a field point method, you are likely to screw up one or more shafts. There is a very fine line between just enough heat and too much heat!

Bisch

[gatorgar]

Slide a steel rod in the nock 3nd and then flip your wrist and try to launch it out the other end. Always use hot melt lol

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[Shiloh]

I do it all the time:

Get a butane torch from harbor frieght or northern tool. Screw a small field point like 100 or 125 grain max only a few turns into the insert. Have a bench vise ready with jaws opened just enough to pit the field point in and crank tight. Now, light the torch and hold the body of the field point directly in the blue torch flame 45 seconds for aluminum inserts and 1 full minute for brass inserts, slowly rotating the shaft so the heat is distributed around the field point all around. VERY Important - do not get the carbon shaft too close to the flame or you'll compromise the structural integrity of the carbon fibers.
Immediately once you reach 45 seconds for aluminum, or 1 minute for brass inserts, put the field poknt in the vise, crank it tight quickly and with both hands grip the arrow shaft and pull hard and steady and STRAIGHT back and it will come off without damaging the shaft.
After the insert cools off you'll need to chuck the field point in a drill and spin the insert in the drill while squeezing it with a green scotchbrite pad to remove the hardened glue on the insert (otherwise it will not go knto the shaft again). Additionally, you'll need to chuck a rifle bore brush in the drill and spin it inside the shaft to remove the dried glue off the walls of the arrow shaft, otherwise you'll have trouble gluing an insert back in the shaft (this will not matter if you're cutting the shaft past where the insert used to sit.
This method has worked very well for me. You can substitute the bench vise with pliers but it is much harder to pull the insert out. The mini torches are cheap, and stand on their own so you can slowly turn the arrow to evenly heat the field point - which results in better heating and softening of the glue on the insert.
Good luck.

[SwampRabbit]

I am of no help. I have only ever used hot melt. I recommend you do the same next time. Then all you need is a large field point (I prefer a 175 gr or higher - and I reused a bent tip) a torch or your stove, and I use my knocking pliers. On the field point, I have a marked line on it for where my broadhead aligns and I use that so I can set my insert the same on all my arrows.

To install and insert, I just put the insert on the field point, hold it by the field point with the nocking pliers, heat the insert, apply the hot melt to the insert and put into shaft and rotate. Run some water over the field point. The field point acts as a radiator so the carbon shaft doesn't take the heat.

To remove and insert, screw in the field point, heat the field point and periodically test to see if the insert will come out by pulling with the nocking pliers. With hot melt, it doesn't take much. When it is pulled, run the whole thing under water to quickly cool so you can remove your insert.