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Thanks for the help people, I live in an apartment block so I dont have a work bench or vise, I played around with a couple of old steel shafted irons, I just heated them up for 30 secs, put a towel over the clubhead so my hand wouldnt burn and pulled/twisted, if it didnt work I gave it some more heat. Think I'll leave the graphite shafts for the pro's, I only intended to do 1 club, not really worth buying a whole bunch of equipment for one club. Was playing around as a bit of fun....a also I'm pretty anal about having my grips/shafts line up the way I want, doing any repair jobs by myself was a way of getting it exactly the way I want.

Will a graphite shaft melt or fuse in some way to the inside of the hosel if you apply too much heat for too long?

Yeah, that's pretty much my plan from now on with graphite, like I said it was an old club that I just wanted to try for fun. It was a case of monkey see, monkey do with twisting it after seeing someone do it on youtube. I've got an opti-fit Ft-5 with a Proforce V2 shaft, I was contemplating pulling the opti-fit tip off and buy a driver head and putting the shaft in myself, don't think I'll be doing that anymore! I don't need the head or shaft so I'm not going to drill it out, haven't used the club in 5yrs. It's worth the same now ruined as it was before. The thing I was more interested in is it feels like the shaft has melted into the hosel, I didn't put the torch on it for that long. I've read stuff that even if you pull a graphite shaft correctly they can be damaged and unusable, are they really that fragile? Thanks for the responses.

Hey, just starting out with club fitting, I've done alright with steel shafts, but my first attempt at a graphite shaft was a flop. I dont have a shaft puller, It was an old club and didn't care if it didnt work. The shaft is stuck in the hosel and the shaft has splintered. I've since read that graphite shafts are made with epoxy and how it should be done only with an extractor. I'm wondering if the shaft has melted into the hosel. I used a torch. What is too hot? I saw a guy on you tube twist a graphite shaft off like you would a home job steel shaft. Is there anyway of pulling a graphite shaft safely without an extractor? Any tips?