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Golf Putter Head Material
I recebtly salvagd the shaft from $1 fles market putter for another purpose.
The head is very heavy for its size and nonmagnetic. What type of alloy or metal is it? Any ideas? Thanks, CP |
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Golf Putter Head Material
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:30:12 -0700, MOP CAP wrote:
I recently salvagd the shaft from $1 fles market putter for another purpose. The head is very heavy for its size and nonmagnetic. What type of alloy or metal is it? [...] A few kinds of stainless steel are used in golf club heads (see eg https://www.hirekogolf.com/clubheads-material-differences) but it looks like all of those mentioned there (17-4, 431, maraging) are martensitic and magnetic. Zinc putter heads are mentioned near the end of the page, and are a good possibility for a $1 putter. Zinc is a little less dense than iron but significantly softer. If it's zinc you could easily drill it, or carve shavings off. -- jiw |
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Golf Putter Head Material
"James Waldby" wrote in message
... On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:30:12 -0700, MOP CAP wrote: I recently salvagd the shaft from $1 fles market putter for another purpose. The head is very heavy for its size and nonmagnetic. What type of alloy or metal is it? [...] A few kinds of stainless steel are used in golf club heads (see eg https://www.hirekogolf.com/clubheads-material-differences) but it looks like all of those mentioned there (17-4, 431, maraging) are martensitic and magnetic. Zinc putter heads are mentioned near the end of the page, and are a good possibility for a $1 putter. Zinc is a little less dense than iron but significantly softer. If it's zinc you could easily drill it, or carve shavings off. -- jiw Possibly tungsten. https://www.ebay.com/b/Tungsten-Head...80/bn_65548458 |
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Golf Putter Head Material
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:30:12 -0700, MOP CAP wrote:
I recebtly salvagd the shaft from $1 fles market putter for another purpose. The head is very heavy for its size and nonmagnetic. What type of alloy or metal is it? Any ideas? Thanks, CP Lots of them have been made of bronze, which is quite heavy compared to steel and steel alloys. Its density varies a bit with the alloy but it's generally around 8.5 g/cm^3 versus 7.7 for steel. Some bronze alloys, such as gunmetal, do not look like brass. There also are tungsten-head putters. They're much heavier still -- 19.3 g/cm^3 -- alsmot twice as heavy as lead. -- Ed Huntress |
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