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Old 09-06-08, 02:19 AM
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It'll be fine to carry on as you always have with hotmelt or gluestick....but as you've pointed to - being carbon they'll be especially susceptible to too hot a pile.

in the case of hotmelt, get the pile hot enough to liquify the solid glue on application....but not much hotter - you don't want to transfer that heat to the shaft....and cause the shaft to become a swollen and worthless 'brush' of fibres

dropping the arrow tip into cool water is not something I'm a fan of in the case of alloy cored arrows - for me the glue has sometimes become less adhesive leading to loose piles later - but in the case of carbon shafts I'd advocate dowsing in a cool mug of water to ensure the minimum of heat transfer after adding piles.
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