Our Step By Step Fitting Instructions
Thank you for buying your new grips from Mercia Golf, here you will find the full step by step instructions on how we replace grips in our workshop, together with a few tips to help along the way, let's get started, you will need:
Solvent, Stanley hook bladed knife if possible, paint roller tray, grip tape strips, rubber vice clamp, hairdryer or heat gun, ruler, pencil, paper towel or cleaning cloth.
1) First we cut away the old grip, with our hook bladed knife, peel back the mouth of the grip to get started placing the blade so that the flat side of the blade lies flat to the shaft, this prevents damage to graphite shafted clubs., cut the full length of the grip and peel off.
2) Now scrape or peel away all of the old tape this can be helped with the use of a hairdryer or heat gun, clean off any residue using solvent.
3) Place the shaft in your rubber vice clamp roughly 3 inches above the position of the new grip and secure in a vice if you have one. Making sure that the toe of the club is pointing vertically straight up with the grooves 90 degrees to the floor this is most important as you will then position the grips square to the clubface and not just directly down the shaft. Place an old paint roller tray underneath the grip to catch any excess solvent.
4) Now take a double-sided grip tape strip peel back 3 inches and lay along the shaft pulling back the backing tape and pressing down the centre as you go, you want to overlap the butt end by a I/4 of an inch, this prevents the shaft from cutting into the grip and makes the grip easier to push on. Use the palm of your hand to first fold around the tape around the shaft one way then the other, fold in the excess tape at the butt end into the shaft.
5) Take your new grip and measure the length of it and make a note, remove the storage plug in the solvent bottle, then with your right hand (if your right-handed) place a finger over the hole in the grip and squirt two fairly good squirts of solvent into the grip. Squeeze the mouth of the grip together with your left hand and shake the solvent around the inside of the grip, then slowly pour the solvent out over the full length of the tape, squirt on more solvent if needs be.
6) With both hands squeeze the mouth of the grip flat and push on and over the tape and without too much hesitation push the grip all along the shaft until fully seated at the butt end. Now measure the grip and if needs be push along all the length of the grip until you get the full measured dry length, this helps all of your grips to match the same length. Make sure the grip is seated so that the top and bottom marks on the grip together with the logo is centralised all along the middle of the shaft, push around the grip as needed.
7) Remove the club from the vice and using the head of the club give a good sharp tap of the grip end onto the floor, this seats the club properly just in case you didn't push the grip all the way to the end.
8) Wipe down the shaft using a paper towel or cloth to remove any excess solvent.
9) Pour the solvent in your paint roller tray back into your bottle to use for another time.
10) Stand the club upright and leave to dry this should only take an hour at most.
For more information, the best re-gripping video with Michael Breed can now be seen on our grip tape and grip kit selling pages!
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