My TAC Vanes won’t stick!

Thank you for giving TAC Vanes a shot! We are sorry they’re giving you trouble, but we are 100% sure that we can help find the missing piece. There are a small handful of specific things that need to happen when you’re fletching TAC Vanes, versus any other vane in the industry. Once people get their jig set perfectly and follow the process perfectly, they never have an issue again. Our bases are hard, so they’re not going to squish in one spot, to allow contact at another like almost every other vane on the market. This makes the operating window with clamp style jigs very narrow with our vanes. If you’re outside of it, then you’ll have this type of trouble.

For now, I’d make sure you meticulously read through our adhesion page - to get most tips you would need to make them work. The only explanation for the vanes not sticking, if you’re priming the vane, applying glue immediately after that and sticking the clamp down with pressure, is because the vane is not fully seated and sealed to the shafts. I know it may look like they’re seated, but 99% of the time, the jig needs to be adjusted slightly to get the seal you need. Once you find that sweet spot, they’ll always stick within 5 seconds of holding the clamp in place and they’ll be fixed to the arrow rock-solid.

Test one vane at a time. If it doesn’t stick, make an adjustment to the offset of the jig. Then try again. You don’t want to keep trying with the jig set at the same place. If you get the 5 second adhesion eventually, then you will likely find the jig is set perfectly for that arrow diameter. So if you switch to another arrow diameter, it’s very likely that you’ll need to adjust the jig for the new arrow.

A straight clamp is not recommended and will be the hardest to fletch with. It also won’t give you the best results when you’re shooting them either. You need a helical to get the best adhesion and also arrow flight with our vanes. This is because our vanes will not create any drag, unless you put enough offset on them and you simply can’t put enough on them with a straight clamp. TAC Vanes are designed to create spin, instead of drag. All other floppy vanes just create drag to straighten the arrow flight.