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  • Next project Ping Eye 2 refurbishing

Typhoon I have joked about how old pool's sand base would be perfect start for planting putting green. Our dogs would make hash of it. I'm 3 miles from two decent public courses and access to practice is fine so why bother and it gives me time away from home / respite too.

Our place has 10 large old pine and sweet gum trees all posing threats to the house. Every storm brings worries that they may fall into it. Not just the house either , but many people get killed from falling trees debris during storms . The trees give us nice shade from blazing hot southern summer sun though and make the old ranch style house a pleasant esthetically pleasing place to live, not to mention cutting down electric ac bill. ????

      I checked specs for eye2 vs + and looks like a gap wedge might be useful but I have never had one ... yet
      Chart lists SW for eye2 + 53 which would be gap wedge??? Weird, maybe chart from Golf spec is wrong ?

      My mixed set specs frm chart:
      Club--- loft degree---- model
      SW----- 57       ------ Eye
      PW--''-- 48.5 ------ +
      9 ------ 44       ------ +
      8 ----- 40 ------ Eye
      7 ----- 36       ------ Eye
      6 ------ 31 ----- +
      5 ------ 28       ------- Eye

      When I played the other day , I used about every club in the set and gaps seemed fine except for mis hit shots. My SWedges have always been about 56* so thinking the set is ok. Of course it'd be better to have only one model in my set, but I'll play this bunch a while and see how they do. I was short on an approach with the SW and with 9 on a par 3 but probably I just Mishit a a bit, not because of gaps. I was more concerned with lies than lofts actually but my round of play kinda relaxed that concern. Still honeymooning and have not played them since re gripping and adding ProSoft Inserts . I'm high handicap anyway, so fine spec nuances are probably mostly just numbers with little or no effect .

      Provisional
      We have the 4 dogs running all over back there. There are pines vs k in the woods I keep watching...and it's the main reason I didn't replace the shed.

      You sound like me...there is a golf course a mile away that I practice at and it's my getaway to practice. A green at home would be nice but I'd be under house arrest.

        Bigborgel heat gun was insufficient for me with my swamp dipped recycle eyes. Propane torch prevailed, even rock hard fossilized epoxy got smoked, no worries mate. # 3 head now in storage , probably never to surface again . I can't hit even a #4 or 5 worth a toot in an auger hole so certainly no reason to not use the old #3 for a shaft donor. A graphite shaft would not have survived , obviously . A real shaft puller would probably help but not in my budget for now .

          Bigborgel

          I hear that a lot but it seems to be an urban legend. I have pulled shafts out of countless sets of PING irons and never had any difficulty. All the way back to my Dad's Karsten I irons, many sets of Eye 2, ZING, ISI, etc.......they come right apart with a little torch heat.

            Kafsten 1 irons calling your name Steve? I think I might take mine out to hit on the SIM.

            Snowed out again today..

              I have never had an issue pulling a Ping head other than the smell. Kind of smells like burned cat turds.

              My problem is that I use a heat gun to soften the epoxy, have a mini torch but have never used it.

                Bigborgel

                PING uses seriously strong epoxy. Heat gun is no bueno. I use a scotch bright pad to brighten up the hosels if they get a little brown from the torch.

                  Typhoon
                  I believe that I have ascertained reason my distance with the eye2 is not much shorter . My benchmark iron set is 5-PW Mizuno mp57s, their lofts are close enough to the antique Pings that with my non-repeating swing they also match distance , albeit both are short compared to more modern lofted irons. That's OK by me, I just move up a club. No wonder I was air mailing greens with my Rapture v2s.

                    Now that is a graphic description ! Never tried using cat feces for incense myself, but probably comparably odorous to hot Ping epoxy fumes. ENJOY

                      Provisional

                      I know I used to hear odd stories from my grandfather about what they would burn for heat.... but....🙂

                        Thank goodness I grew up in lap of luxury ; we had a natural gas space heater in the living room.

                          sdandrea1
                          In Mobile ALA didn't use it a lot. I loved the attic fan much more, when dad put it in. Before that push bed up as close to window as possible and pray for any whisper of a breeze . Didn't realize how happy and rich we were.

                              I'm with Steve on this, pulling shafts on Pings isn't hard, I do 3 at a time, use a propane torch and heat one up, move to the next, then on to the next, back to the first one and do that 3 times total, it lets the heat sink in to the metal more and that generally gets the bond to come loose nicely with no browning. I do the three at a time method because I'm impatient and WAITING for heat soak is too much for me to handle, keep busy with others and it's fine. Takes about the same time as any other club if you do it this way. I typically will something similar on graphite pulls, but I pre load into the puller, put it under a little pressure, heat a little, let it sit, little more pressure, heat if it's not loose, and so on, I hate burnt hosels so I go slow.

                                DC300

                                Good tip on heat soaking. I'll try that next time.

                                PING hosels clean up real easy in the event you get a little browning. Scotchbrite pad and some elbow grease or a fine grit sanding sponge.