Why do I do this to myself?

[thekathrynorchard]

Everytime I get something done at golftown something is crappy about it.

I had my 905 S regripped and the guy used so much solvent it's still leaking out through 1) the butt of the grip, 2) the borethrough on the head two days later. I can regrip things on my own but I dont have the facilities to not make a mess. Anyone have suggestions as to how I can dry this out without just cutting the grip off and getting a new one?

I'm assuming this won't do any damage.

Any feedback is good feedback (except if it's bad feedback). :confused:

[Carlton]

Take a skinny tee (like a Stinger tee) or BBQ skewer etc. and punch a hole through grip tape from the hole in the butt end of the grip and stand the club up so that the grip is on the floor. Better lay some newspaper/paper towel etc. on the ground first so you don't make a mess. If your shaft is graphite then you won't have to worry about moisture/water getting down the shaft from the hole in the grip and rusting out the shaft from the inside out.

How the heck did the clubfitter get that much solvent down the shaft of the club?! That's a very rookie mistake IMHO.

[racmbs]

Everytime I get something done at golftown something is crappy about it.

I had my 905 S regripped and the guy used so much solvent it's still leaking out through 1) the butt of the grip, 2) the borethrough on the head two days later. I can regrip things on my own but I dont have the facilities to not make a mess. Anyone have suggestions as to how I can dry this out without just cutting the grip off and getting a new one?

I'm assuming this won't do any damage.

Any feedback is good feedback (except if it's bad feedback). :confused:

A heat gun will dry the solvent, but you have to be very careful. Make sure you evenly distribute the heat in the area that needs to have the solvent removed and it will go away.

Or

You can just leave it alone and it will dry in it's own.

What I am concerned about is, liquid coming out of the bore-through....THAT is not normal and shouldn't be happening. I'd suggest bringing it by a quality fitter and let them assess it first, I know Jeff Shuster (Fore The Golfer) is open on Saturday's and would provide you with top notch service and an honest opinion. :)

[thekathrynorchard]

Yeah - seems to be the common thread underlying my experiences downtown.

The poking a hole is a solid idea.

Thanks alot.

I was also concerned with it coming through the bore-through and couldn't imagine that being normal - what a pain in my ***!

I wouldn't even say that's a rookie mistake. When I first worked in a shop and was doing regripping I couldn't have possibly put that much solvent on a club. I am just too rational to imagine that being a good idea. As I think 99% of individuals are.

[golfinseb]

I once put way to much solvent on my clubs when I was changing grips. But I was beligerantly drunk and probably shouldn't have been changing grips at that exact time. Oh well, nothing bad happened, the grips looked fine the next day and were installed properly :)

[thekathrynorchard]

Thats hilarious golfinseb. I can honestly say I've never gotten drunk and changed grips before. I now have something to add onto my list of things to do in my life ;).

I poked a hole in the tape and am letting it rest. I can't be bothered to go complain to GT and they never answer their phones anway.

[golfinseb]

What can I say? I do dumb things when I get drunk, hmm, I think I pretty much made a universal statement with that one.

[Johnson]

Never had a bad experience at GT with re-gripping? is this common to have issues?

[rgk5]

Last Feb., we regripped 500+ sets in Hamilton during the regrip sale and had two complaints.

1. One grip in a set of Tour Velvets had the tape not right to the mouth of the grip, off by 1/32 of an inch.

2. A customer insisted he asked for midsized even though he had initialed his work order for regular sized. We redid his at N/C.

[Rocknronny]

This is why I use a quality professional club fitter to do all my work. This way you get personal service and he will go out of his way to make sure you are satisfied with the work. Back in the fall I bought a set of stix off a racmbs and they needed to be set up to my specs. There was no need for me to get fitted as swaaain already had my specs on file. When the stix arrived they were ready to go. I've invested to much of my hard earned cash to let some hack at GT get near them. Next time you want to get any work done on your clubs do some homework and you will find that using a professional club fitter is the only way to go.
RR

[akrus]

Last Feb., we regripped 500+ sets in Hamilton during the regrip sale and had two complaints.

1. One grip in a set of Tour Velvets had the tape not right to the mouth of the grip, off by 1/32 of an inch.

2. A customer insisted he asked for midsized even though he had initialed his work order for regular sized. We redid his at N/C.

I've had good experiences with GT, in general, however when the head came off my R5TP, they installed the shaft 180* out. It was easy to see as I had the New Decade grip on it. When I went back to complain (I didn't look at it closely until I got to the course as I was in a rush to make the tee time) the guy actually told me not to worry about it... I was astounded that he would say that when he clearly made a mistake - he should have just taken it and said it will be fixed.

Short of it is, after that experience, I'm done with GT doing club work for me - UNLESS it's an absolute emergency.

[GQuizzle]

I've never bought equiptment from GT, but some of the guys I was talking to in one of their locations were absolute morons. How does that translate into competent service? Apparently not too well... seems like there are lots of gripes about the joint's staff.