Do you use glue on your balltops?

[javeryh]

It keeps coming unscrewed while playing - would a dab of glue permanently attach it?  What if you wanted to make a switch?  I don't know how else to put this but how do you guys keep your balls in place? 

[Cornchip]

  This post sounds a little funny. I could suggest a way to keep your balls where they belong. Try a little 'clear nail polish' on the threads. It will be removable should you ever feel the need to take your balls some place better.

 Cornchip.

[fjl]

Have you tried tightening them with tools like pliers? Just be sure to add some kind of medium to hold it so they don't get all scratched up while you tighten it.

[PsychoAU]

Use a strip of Teflon tape that you would find in the plumbing section of a building supply store.  That worked wonders and it is not permanent.  Wrap it around the teeth and your top will stay on (unless it is ladies night at the bar).

[Kevin Mullins]

Having come from an automotive background... I'd use a couple drops of Medium Strength Loctite.
Loctite

[DaOld Man]

It keeps coming unscrewed while playing - would a dab of glue permanently attach it?  What if you wanted to make a switch?  I don't know how else to put this but how do you guys keep your balls in place? 

The title of this thread reminds me of the joke about the golfer taking his wife to play golf.
While they were playing, snow starting falling and the ground got white.
Wife asked hubby how will they find the white balls in the snow.
He said ordinarily they play with blue balls, but he didnt bring any.
They got up to the next tee, snow was falling heavy by then. She asked a man waiting to tee off, "Pardon me sir, but do you have blue balls?"
The man answered, "No ma'am, Ive wearing thermal undies."

[brian_hoffman]

Id agree Loctite
The blue not the red.

Pliers will just scratch the ball.

[shardian]

Pliers will just scratch the ball.

Use channel lock pliers, and wrap the ball in a sock or something thick like that.

[superbigjay]

Id agree Loctite
The blue not the red.

Pliers will just scratch the ball.

Loctite here too Javeryh.

As Brian said, use the blue one.
(blue is removable, red is more permanent)

the blue will be strong enough to keep your balls at their proper place   
but you'll still be able to remove it if you ever need too.

Jay 

[Aurich]

Use a strip of Teflon tape that you would find in the plumbing section of a building supply store.  That worked wonders and it is not permanent.  Wrap it around the teeth and your top will stay on (unless it is ladies night at the bar).

That's what I use on my Ultrastiks, haven't come loose once.

[bigh4th]

as the "leet speek" kiddies would say,

lok tyt FTW!!!111!onetwobucklemyshoe

Seriously though, weak lock-tite will do the trick.  A dab of elmers school glue on the shaft threads may work as well.

-Harry

[pmc]

(blue is removable, red is more permanent)

The way I always understood it, you use blue if you want the option to break the bond with physical pressure (e.g., wrench, screwdriver, etc.). Red provides a higher strength bond that can be broken with heat but not pressure. Both are removable. For this application, red is definitely not the way to go.

I secured mine with a vicious physical twist and they are fine. But I'd be interested to see how well Teflon tape works. I bet a dab of hot glue would work OK too.

-pmc

[Jouster]

I've been using hot glue...it holds for a little while, but doesn't seem to last more than a day or so.

Maybe I'm just rougher on my balls than others...I don't know.

I'm gonna try the Teflon tape thing, I've got some of that around here somewhere.

Jouster

[knave]

Maybe I'm just rougher on my balls than others...I don't know.

Can't...ressist...smirk.   

 

(sigh)

[shardian]

as the "leet speek" kiddies would say,

lok tyt FTW!!!111!onetwobucklemyshoe

Seriously though, weak lock-tite will do the trick.  A dab of elmers school glue on the shaft threads may work as well.

-Harry

What does FTW stand for? That  is an acronym I have never understood.

[ChadTower]

Eff The World

EDIT:  for the hell of it, I looked it up... we always said it as eff the world... apparently it has evolved into For The Win.

Odd.

[shardian]

That is what I thought it stood for. However, some people use it in very unorthodox ways if that is the case. Always made me think it meant something else in "internet lingo".

[bigh4th]

My understand is "FTW" stands for "For The Win".

I just found that out a few days ago.

-Harry

[Spaz Monkey]

I've *ALWAYS* heard it as [blank] the world.  Only hear the win thing here.

[dstone]

I was always under the impression that the Teflon tape was used to form a water-tight seal between the threads, not to hold the parts together. I think it packs the tape into the gaps in the threads to prevent leakage, so I'm not sure how that would work out. I'd say just use the Loctite, that would be the safest bet.

[ChadTower]

I was always under the impression that the Teflon tape was used to form a water-tight seal between the threads, not to hold the parts together. I think it packs the tape into the gaps in the threads to prevent leakage, so I'm not sure how that would work out. I'd say just use the Loctite, that would be the safest bet.

You're right, but it also sort of wedges the part stuck, and does hold it pretty well.