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Originally Posted by recurve
I find that cleaning the shafts with Isopropyl alcohol first works really well. I have a couple Bitzenburger Jigs and I make sure when I place the fletching clip onto the shaft, I use quite a bit of pressure at first so that I get all the bubbles out of the glue, and good contact all the way along.
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some UFI on Isopropyl alcohol or denatured alcohol
Denatured alcohol – found in bottles at the hardware store or the drug store – is also ethanol. But it has been poisoned to keep people from drinking it...
Iso-propyl is basically the same thing but is the one most commonly found in drug stores and known as rubbing alcohol...
Regadless but the one with the higest alcohol rating sush as 99%...means less water and additives..
Avoid any with perfumed oils...any oil will defeat its purpose and vanes wont stick.
Back in the day Acetone was not recommened for carbon arrows...things change and many brands even recommend Acetone for cleaning arrows...just never soak carbon arrows in acetone...it will eventually eat them...
We used to soak aliminum arrow nock ends to remove nocks and/or glue on nock end swaged arrows
Neil