Excalibur straight shaft design thread

[wavecrazed]

Hi, I'm making a Excalibur straight shaft for my 1000. I think I have most of it down but the connector at the fiberglass lower shaft and the new upper shaft. It seems the big black whatever you call it does not come off? It cinches the two shafts to each other. Is there something holding it? I don't want to destroy the old factory s shaft as may trade this in one day. I don't want to wait for someone to ship me a new one either. I have a pic here of my same outside diameter new aluminum shaft. Need some help here hooking them together. Thanks in advance.

 

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[Marchas45]

You call it a upper shaft connector and I had a hell of a time trying to get one. See my earlier post about a couple of months ago. Good Luck.
P.S. If you can push the little black piece that sits in the hole from the inside out you may be able to get it off.

 

[wavecrazed]

Yes, I see that little black thing inside. I will give it a try. Thanks. Got those inside clips from Kellyco today. I was wondering also another way to connect the two shafts.

 

[pistolpete]

On your bottom photo, do you see the seam of the top ring and main body of the camlock? These 2 pieces are glued together with crazy glue. Take a thin, sharp knife and place it between the seam of the ring and main body and work on prying the 2 pieces apart. You can get a new one from minelab. It will come in 3 pieces, a top ring, a button, and main body. When you install the new one, place the ring on the shaft first, then the button into the shaft hole with the tit pointing towards the top or handle end of the shaft. Put the main body on the shaft, run a small amount of crazy glue along the ridge of the top ring and place the 2 pieces together. Hold them together as long as you can as it takes a bit to get these 2 pieces to glue together. As you are holding the 2 glued pieces together, rotate the camlock on the shaft to be sure that it rotates freely and has not had any glue seep inside glueing the whole thing together with the button. I have litterally done hundreds of these and you will find that eventually they will strip. When you see the size of the button inside you will know why they strip and why they do not have much holding power on the lower rod. good luck

 

[wavecrazed]

I am thinking, I just need to get rid of the fiberglass lower shaft. I now need to regroup and get a longer piece of aluminum.