Do yourself a favor and go to Wal Mart and buy a bottle of Loc Tite super glue, either the regular or the gel. Iused touse Goat Tuff all the time, and it truly is great glue. But, if you don't use it up pretty quick it ends up drying in the bottle. I was always shelling out $8 to $9 for a bottle only to throw half of it away. Then a few years agoWild outdoors, Jay Gregory told in his technical segment that he found a great glue for fletching that was a fraction of the cost of the brand name archery companies glues. I figured I would giveit a try and have been using it ever since. I have yet to have it dry out. I do quite a bit of arrows for me and all my buddies, both alum. and carbons, and I have never had any that didn't stick. Best of all, it is only $2.59 for a good size bottle. I know several guys around here who tried it and they all love it.

This might be the problem. I am using rubbing alcohol to clean the shafts. What is a good cleaner to use in place of this?

91% alcohol seems to work for me, also it's not a good idea to re-fletch when the humidity is high, in my experience.

Madjac said it. I have used 91% alcohol for years--readily available at the local pharmacy. Denatured alcohol, too.

Here's one that works, too. Good ole soap and hot water, with a good hot rinse. The make sure they are dry.

Something else I forgot to mention. Some plastic vanes need the gluing base cleaned, too. You have to check the directions on the packaging of those you have. Some do and some don'tand I don't know which ones. Then there are some that have a coating that helps with the gluing process.

Ive just been useing warm soapy water to clean shafts and I dont touch the vanes, seems to work great havent had a vane come loose yet.