i was at the rink today and found a dolomite in the lost and found. i took it home and found the blade had a crack in it. its not a huge crack but its not a small crack either. My question is Aren‘t all dolomites 2 pieces basicly? can i take the blade out and put another in? its the original dolomite. no HD or DD. If i cant take the blade out, can i fix it to make it better? besides putting 2 rolls of tape on it.
a new blade will not fit into the BOTTOM of the stick because the shaft material is thicker at the bottom where the shaft joins the blade which will make the hole that a new blade would go into smaller. The material should get thin again like 1' above where the blade starts now and i doubt ud want to cut 1' off the length of the stick. What you could do is cut off the blade but then put a new one into the TOP of the shaft. This could potentially kinda mess up the flex of the stick if it has a low kickpoint. Either way this'd most likely be ur best bet and if the flex does feel off u still now have a pretty cool custom made road hockey stick :P
You most likely wont be able to but a new blade in the bottom, what i would reccomend is if you can see distincly where it tapers cut it off there and (assuming it is a senior stick) try putting an intermediate blade in there because that will likely fit best, but that could mess up the feel a little and make the stick heavier because of all the glue that you will have to use to keep it in. OR you could cut it and stick a blade ion the top of the stick where you would originally insert a plug, but because the dolomite is a lower kick point stick this will mess up the flex quite a lot but it could make a good stick for street hockey.
Go talk to your local hardware store. They are alot more helpful than the big guys. You should think twice before chaning out the copper. The copper is stronger cleaner than PVC.
you can get a compression fitting to go from copper to CPVC, dont use the white pvc, its not rated for potable water. use the yellowish CPVC,it is for potable water. you cant just use dome rubber thingy, you have to either solder a fitting on the copper or use a compression fitting. i would tell you exactly what fittings but if you cant solder you wont understand what the fittings are. tell the guy at home depot what you want to do and he will get you what you need. all home depots must have a master plumber on staff, its their new policy.
They make conversion pieces. You just solder a threaded female or male end and then use the opposite threaded piece for the pvc end and just wrap teflon on whichever side the male threads are on. why do you need to convert to pvc? Repairing copper is not hard. Just takes a bit of practice soldering. Need a good cleaning brush, a flux application brush, some solder and a good torch that gets pretty hot (like mapp). Its all about NOT touching the part you wish to solder with any part of your body after cleaning it as acids that humans produce actually are corrosive to it and may leak in time. You only need a ring inside of the joint with solder, not a big glob outside. If you are converting though.a threaded male to female works or threaded female to male works too. You are basically taking straight pipe and adding a threaded fitting, using teflon and then threading the pvc end into it.
