blade tip question

[gundamaniac]

Just a question. If all the concern over tips flying off is over the shoulder that goes into the blade....why not just use the old hemi-sphere tips without the shoulder?...aside from the fact that there's less surface contact between the tip and the tube?....

[Hasid Lafre]

The shoulder is what helps keep them from popping off.

[xwingband]

Just a question. If all the concern over tips flying off is over the shoulder that goes into the blade....why not just use the old hemi-sphere tips without the shoulder?...aside from the fact that there's less surface contact between the tip and the tube?....

Because with no shoulder a healthy 10 year old could pop it off. You really have to work to take the tip off with a shoulder. Only through time or consistent use it comes off.

Really, I'm not worried... sucks to say it but people like Novastar need to cook their noodle if the want a better tip because for 90% of people the current shouldered ones work great. :P

[Marsupial]

From my experiences, the thinwalled shouldered tips will fly off way easier then thickwalled ones.

I still haven't have a thickwall shouldered tip to fly off, and had several thinwalled ones do so: from my own construction and from ultrasabers ready-made blades.

I believe its caused by the thinwalled being able to flex more. I'd suggest having a deeper shoulder on the thinwalled blades.

[Strydur]

And a deeper shoulder is what we did.

[gundamaniac]

I was about to say it, but Tim beat me to it. His shouldered tips for the thin-walls looks to be at least twice as deep as the thick-walled tips.

[Novastar]

Really, I'm not worried... sucks to say it but people like Novastar need to cook their noodle if the want a better tip because for 90% of people the current shouldered ones work great. :P

I did indeed, X-wing... right now, it's called "clear packing tape", heheheh!!

I have tried some other methods, but until I perfect them, there is no use mentioning.