Shaft-Snap Rings and Shaft Crowns

Shaft-snap rings and shaft crowns are used with nylon shafts, and keep the flights tightened to the shaft. 

Often when you started to get the grouping right and the 180's is all up in there, the flights bounces of the shaft. With snap rings /crowns the flight will stay mounted on the shaft.

Some players use glue on the flights when they mount it to the nylon shafts, this is a good solution to keep the flights on the shafts, but it can be a bit expensive because you have to replace the shaft and the flights if any part gets broken. 

Shaft-O-rings

O-rings are great for attaching aluminum, titanium, magnesium and steel shafts to the darts. Without O-rings you need to tight the shafts to the darts all the time. It's also easy to mount with help of a tool called shaft lock system. When you use nylon shafts o-rings are not necessary.

Heavy Metal Shaft

Heavy metal shaft has a weight of total 4 grams, much more than normal shafts have. If you like to experience with different shafts try this model.

Heavy metal shaft is perfect for players that want the dart to enter the board with tail down, this again for top stacking or grouping.

Carbon Plus

Graphite has a higher strength than steel. When combined with a low weight to volume ratio, this makes an ideal combination of lightness and strength. As a result of this graphite has been used in many sporting applications including: golf clubs, fishing rods, tennis rackets and snooker cues. 

The carbon plus shaft, which features a super light graphite rod, weights in at a mere 1.0 grams.

This type of shafts has some higher price range. 

Steel Shafts

Steel shafts have a slim design, and most of them with opportunity to replace the top of the shaft holding the flights.

Steel shafts are not that expensive, the price range is more or less the same as aluminium shafts. 

Sigma Pro Shafts

Sigma pro shafts come in many different designs. They have a unique technology and it's also built in flights protectors. These types of shafts don’t break that easily and come with replaceable flights holders in nylon. Sigma pro shafts are made in titanium based material, nylon, magnesium and aluminum so you have a wide range to choose from. The main advantage with this type of shafts is that it extends the grip to base of your darts. Or you can say that it extending your darts.

Titanium Shafts

Titanium shaft is the strongest shafts on the market today, and also the most expensive ones. They have all the advantage like the aluminium shafts, but they cost a bit more. The advantage with the Titanium shaft is that they not bend that easily and are almost indestructible. 

Magnesium Shafts

Magnesium shaft is type of shaft is new in darts technology. Magnesium shafts are ultra light shafts. They are a little bit more expensive than aluminum shafts. 

Aluminum Shafts

Aluminum shafts are a little bit more expensive then the nylon shaft. However this type of shafts doesn’t break, but they can easily get bended, a drop from the dartboard to the floor can be enough. It’s very difficult to bend them back to it’s original state when they first get bend, witch can again lead to problems later when you throwing the darts.

Nylon Shafts

Nylon shafts are the cheapest shafts on the market today. These flights are in small, medium, large and extra large size. Nylon shaft can easily brake, and when these shafts break it can be a little bit tricky to get the last peace out of the barrel, but there is a tool for that so you can easily screw out the reaming part. The nylon shaft is often sold in big packs with 15 or more sets. The price will very from vendor to vendor. But if you use this kind of shaft make sure you have some with you at all time and it’s not so expensive. 

Why do shaft come in different lengths?

Shafts are made of various different materials such as graphite, aluminium and polycarbonate. The weight and length of the shaft will dictate how the dart performs in flight. If you are new to the game a good idea is to try different lengths of shafts and find one standard that fits your style.

Spear points

If you have a set of soft darts that you really like, and going over to play steel darts you can use spear points.

Simply convert your soft darts over to steel tip darts in seconds.

Soft tips for soft darts

Soft tips come in many different designs, quality and colors. There is a lot to choose from on today’s market. Soft tips does not last that long and a good rule is to replace them when they start to bend. I have tried several different types of soft sips and my advice is that you try the same. It all depends on witch electronic board you are throwing on, how hard you throw and so on. It’s not a good idea to use to much muscle when throwing soft dart, the electronic dartboards are not like bristle dartboards.

Steel Tips for Darts

When you throw your darts it can take some damage bouncing on the floor, hitting the wall and so on. If the steel tip on your darts gets worn out you have the opportunity to replace the steel tip on your darts. 

There are many different designs to choose from, and with the right tool it's pretty easy to change your steel tips on your darts. It does only take about 1 minute to change the tips with Chinatungsten’s tool. Chinatungsten’s tool is the best replacing tool I have ever tried, and the price is pretty low.

You can choose from many different designs. And most dart producers have a small / large range of different steel tips. 

Steel dart tip

Steel dart tips are made with one steel bar at lever 34 Smithing, granting 37.5 Smithing

experience and yielding 10 dart tips.