Even if they dont give you a new club, they should be better equipped to repair it. The heads are made from two pieces. The faces are welded onto the head. They could in theory, remove the face, then take out the dent, put the head back together and then reassemble the club
Even if they dont give you a new club, they should be better equipped to repair it. The heads are made from two pieces. The faces are welded onto the head. They could in theory, remove the face, then take out the dent, put the head back together and then reassemble the club
Do you really think they would go to all that trouble to fix a dent? And what makes you think they have the people or equipment to do all that work? You might be surprised to find out that at least one OEM, doesn't even have a way of changing a shaft out. I asked Cleveland, if I sent them two drivers, could they pull both shafts, and switch them for me, and they said they didn't have a way to do that in the USA. That was before I started building my own clubs, and I didn't know how easy it was to do. So, don't be too surprised if some other OEM's are in the same boat. Remember, most all clubs are built in China, by people making 50 cents an hour.
There is no reason you couldn't drill a small hole in the sole of the head, and "Pull out the dent", the same way a body shop would repair a dent in a car. Once the dent is pulled out, you could fill in the hole, and it would be almost like new. Not that this would be worth the trouble. I can't see how a small dent in the sole of a driver would make enough difference that you'd notice.
I just had a friend end up with a crease in the head of his r580xd. he sent it back to Taylor Made and they sent him a new r5 dual, because they did not have an r580xd to replace the club with.
I didnt say they would do it. If you read my post you will see that I wrote "in theory". That is how they are built. There is no way that a dent in a clubhead would be pulled out. The dents are too small to be pulled out like in a car. You best bet would be to drill a hole opposite the sdent and try to punch out the dent with a hammer and punch and then refill the hole. Best to tap the hole and then plug the hole with a screw.
i would suggest to contact Taylormade, they will replace the head if there is a defect but not necessarily from a very vertical swing.
don't waste your time trying to take the dent out, extremely hard to do and it still won't look right.
I didnt say they would do it. If you read my post you will see that I wrote "in theory". That is how they are built. There is no way that a dent in a clubhead would be pulled out. The dents are too small to be pulled out like in a car. You best bet would be to drill a hole opposite the sdent and try to punch out the dent with a hammer and punch and then refill the hole. Best to tap the hole and then plug the hole with a screw.
The point I was making, is that TM and the other OEM's, don't build clubheads, they contract that out to some foundry in China, were most all golf clubs are made. Which means that TM doesn't have the people or the equipment to cut the head apart, fix the dent and weld it back together. Even if they did, I really doubt they could cut it apart without ruining the two halves in the process. The weld on those heads is a pretty exact job, you can't just cut it back apart, and expect to have two good pieces to work with. I'm not a great welder, but I can tell you that welding club heads together is not easy, and you have to have a correct set up to hold the two pieces in place, and you have to use just the right settings on the welder, to get the job done right and not **** the heat treatment of the metal. Even if TM could fix the dent that way, they still would have to grind down the weld joint, polish the whole head, and re-paint it. Again, they don't have the equipment to do that here in this country.
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