Do the dowels just press in snug enough to stay put or do you epoxy them?
I used to use school glue. Worked just fine. Not too much.
I will say I now vastly prefer to play the Butterfly with the metal axle. I have snappier throws and itās OK that I do 
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I used a couple drops of super glue. It felt kind of snug without, but I think it wouldāve worked loose eventually.
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I think I mightāve got lucky lol. I did two last night and they both turned out great. Much better than I expected. Had me almost wanting to do it to my maniax and glowfly, but Iām afraid it was a fluke and Iāll mess them up 
Did you drill through or just use a super short dowel in the cup under the starburst?
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I just cut the dowel a tiny bit shorter, like maybe 1/16ā, than the metal axle. Just held the axle next to the dowel and marked it with the saw.
I also didnāt have a bench vice to get the axle out of the half that it stuck in. But, I do have some 325 parachord that was just thin enough to tie around the axle. Then I stepped on the long end of the paracord and pulled on the half that it was stuck in. Pop goes the weasel.
Full disclosure, I marred the first axle trying a thousand other ways first the second disassembly went off without a hitch though. Two pristine halves, one pristine axle. 
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You can use vice grips to get the axles out.
It was literally just now that I realized I should print myself a TPU grip for removing Butterfly axles so I donāt damage them with a vice gripā¦
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I cant believe how easy this actually was!
Thankfully my husband has both an enormous stock of paracord and a bench vise for his work (along with one million other small useful tools for getting caps off! 
)
Now Im hooked! I wanna swap alllll the butterflies 
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Lol, if Iād have known Iād have sent you my butterflies with our trade to see if you could swap mine, those look amazing.
We will definitely need to trade again in the future
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