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Equipment => Bats => Bat Care => Topic started by: LockieEP on November 15, 2020, 02:47:18 PM
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Found an old favourite bat but some issues from a cracked too which has since got wet and started to rot! Is there anything that can be done?
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Use orbital sander and grind it up good until you remove the rotten portion. Seal it will gorilla wood glue or shoe goo. You may loose 1/4 to 3/8 inch of toe but bat looks salvageable. Cheers
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Thanks - bit lacking in the tools department! I will try and find someone that has one. I guess a bit of an effort to use my sheets of sandpaper on it :D
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Depending on how much you want to save the bat, I'm sure it's something one of the bat makers/menders on here could help you with.
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Its a Puma Stealth thats a good few years old now, so not worth a lot but I bat I always got on with. I will try and track down a sander and give it a go
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Use a needle and syringe to inject waterproof PVA glue into the toe. It’ll harden it and work effect the overall size of the bat. I have used it many times and it works really well
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Use a needle and syringe to inject waterproof PVA glue into the toe. It’ll harden it and work effect the overall size of the bat. I have used it many times and it works really well
So no sanding first?
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Correct. No sanding needed at all. The glue will firm it up nicely.
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Thank you - will be my next weekend activity . Will let you know
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Personally I'd sand it into an angled toe. Really easy to do with any cheap sander. Then shoe-goo it.
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Correct. No sanding needed at all. The glue will firm it up nicely.
Sorry for the many questions, if trying this route approximately how much glue is needed? or the other way of looking at it - how do you know when enough?
Not known for my bat repairs - we are lacking an expert at our club!
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A syringe full of glue will be more than enough. Put the needle into the toe as far as it will go and inject the glue in as you remove the needle. Move a few mm away and repeat. Keep doing this over the whole toe.
Hope that makes sense.
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Thanks and makes sense :)
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injecting of bat has commenced! Seems to be sucking up loads of the PVA!
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Have used up one syringe full.....could use more...but assume stop now and let it dry over night?
Dont want to over glue it
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The toe has dried out really well and is a lot more "solid".
I am left with the original crack running through part of the base. Assume; fill with super glue and add a toe protector?
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Add a photo if you can.
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Fill with glue, clamp it or tightly wrap in parcel tape, leave overnight, sand down, add a toe guard if you like.
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Agree with the above. Wrap in parcel tape from the front face to the back. Though I think you’ll have a job fitting a toe guard without flattening the toe off first
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Though I think you’ll have a job fitting a toe guard without flattening the toe off first
Shoe goo would be much easier.