pellmell A tip weight is loose and moving up the shaft. It's graphite (small inside diameter). Is there an easy fix that doesn't involve pulling the shaft?
Rickochet If you bang the grip end on the floor does the tip move toward the grip? If so, remove the grip and take the pin out, but then your swing weight is altered. I would suggest pulling the shaft. It could be a glue rattle.
SVonhof No way I can think of for fixing it short of removing and re-doing it. I mean, you could try getting some epoxy down there, but I doubt you could get it to flow all the way down the shaft before it cures.
Rickochet SVonhof you could try getting some epoxy down there, but I doubt you could get it to flow all the way down the shaft before it cures. I have always read that epoxy in the shaft above the hosel creates a shear point that increases the chance of a shaft break.
DC300 I have sheered enough shafts to verify, expoxy should not go inside the barrel of the shaft. I did it to myself once, but the others I managed to kill also had glue where it didnt belong, not of my doing.
JoeHatesSnow If the head is not loose I would remove the grip, dump it out and see what it is. If it is the shank of a tip weight you might lose a point of swingweight or so. You could lead tape to make it up or do as Tinker suggested and use a ram rod and cork to seat it again. It could just be loose epoxy too. Usually you can tell by the heaviness of the sound as the piece travels from end to end.
Par4QC JoeHatesSnow It could just be loose epoxy too. I'm still trying to imagine a tip weight being loose in a shaft. imo, not a possibility ever, unless someone cut off the head of the weight. Or, if someone put a .355 weight into a .370 steel shaft.
JoeHatesSnow Par4QC Rex I've seen the "shank" part of a graphite tip weight that goes up the shaft break loose from the base that is contained under the tip and start sliding around. Not common but it happens.
colej JoeHatesSnow those heavier tungsten weights from golfworks are really bad about breaking and sliding up and down inside. It’s so bad I’ll cut a 1/4” off the shank of weight to help combat it. The shank is really long on those tungsten weights.
sdandrea1 I'd take a ramrod and shove a small cork or even a wad of paper down as far as you can jam it.