Just pulled off my grips and have a question...

Hey guys, so at the end of February I put on the new Tacki Mac grips on my wedges. I was not to thrilled with them so tonight I took off the grips to put on my new golf pride grips. When I took off those grips, the adhesive still looked fresh and was wet. I had noticed that there was adhesive/glue coming out of the hole of the grip  as well since February. That seemed odd to me since I have never had that happen to me before.  I have never had this issue with other clubs I have re-gripped, only with the Tacki Mac's. Do you think that the grip was not bonding with the adhesive? Or is there something I am doing wrong? I am a little worried now and don't want to mess up my new golf pride grips, ha.

Thanks,

Zack

I've never seen or heard of anything like that with grips. I'm sure someone here will have an answer but not bonding wouldn't mean the solution wouldn't dry. The only things I can think of is it dry properly ie. too cold or moisture was getting in between your grip and tape.

What kind of solvent did you use? Was it an oil-based solvent?

you could just take that off, get water activated grip tape, and not worry about solvents :)

Possibly since this solvent has petroleum naptha which is from oil. The description says it is used for solvent activating strips which I did use.

Why do you ask if was oil-based?

Here is what I used and the description from golf galaxy...

This economical solvent activates all solvent-activated tapes. Excellent for easy, efficient grip installation and shaft cleanup. Available in quart and gallon cans.

This is the exact solvent I use when I regrip my clubs and I've never had that happen. It is rather strange but did you notice if the grip was twisting or sliding around at all?

Zack,

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I am not sure that there is a problem.  Different grips are made with different compounds...if they were what I think of as "traditional" tacki macs...I am thinking plastic more than porous rubber..then it would not unusual to me to see they were still damp.  Feb was just a month ago...back when I was refinishing wood h ead woods..tacki macs were a hot item....these would always come off slightly sticky..especially if you used tape the full length..they never seem to fully dry but they never seemed to slip off.   I did see on occasion that the tread would twist after some time.  We used less tape, shortened it to maybe 3-4 inches and more solvent .

You have removed the "problem" clean em up with some goo gone, let dry and slip on your new grips.

Weave,

This is exactly was I was trying to explain. I am glad to hear that you came across the same stickiness/wetness that I saw when removing the grips. One of my wedge grips that was a Tacki-Mac would twist a little bit. I'm glad to get these off my clubs and go back to golf pride.

Thanks everyone who posted in this thread. I appreciate it!

Zack

Put the new grips on and have had no issues. No adhesive coming out of the hole of the grip. These new Golf Pride grips feel amazing compared to the Tacki's!