stringnstik wrote:Hmm interesting. I have never had the problem before maybe the glue is going off, it is awfully old. I always dab the front and back with super gel and run the super glue down the sides after as well.. I have a few more of this batch of shafts, ill sand em this time.
I've tried everything now after listening to various people here and I find good old cheap (six tubes for $2) superglue does all the fletching, points and nocks safely. The only tips that ever came off were with construction glue (liquid nails stuff). Few of my arrows last over a year or more but those that have are still fine. I have to burn points off the broken shafts though.
I have used it on (dry and sanded) POC, VA, Sitka, ash, bamboo, rose, warratah and more with no problem, and in fact I prefer to use a fair bit (a full drop or two, or a run not just a smear) as it gives me a moment or so to adjust the bits. It can very occasionally take a longer while to set, never worked out why and it is erratic in that, maybe dependant on temperature, moisture. I use it on sanded shafts though it works well on painted repair jobs and re-fletching or binding. I dribble it over all the bindings and it works like a very strong varnish, and also along the fletches where it fills the gaps but I am always careful not to get it on the fletch itself as they stiffen up with painful consequences to off-the-hand shooters.
I have some old tubes with crystals on the bottom where it has leaked and what is left inside works well but usually unless I am running out I chuck them, after all, less than 35c for six arrows is OK.
As a by-the-way I have also used it on deep cuts and a badly ripped fingernail and it works brilliantly, despite the 'cyano' bit of the formula I'm not dead!
