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guide help
Posted by: sandra combs (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: June 14, 2005 07:33PM

would like to find s.s spin guides braced 100 mm down to 70 mm

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Re: guide help
Posted by: Mike Williams (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: June 14, 2005 07:35PM

I don't want to pretend to know what you're trying to do, but I don't think anyone makes a 100mm guide and even if they did it would be terrible on a rod. Too much line slap. Way too much. You want smaller rings and higher frames for good casting distance. But like I say, I don't know what you want to do with these things.

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Re: guide help
Posted by: Mike Oliver (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: June 15, 2005 06:29AM

Sandra,

Mike's coming up with some solid advice here. Sounds like you are working on a surf rod, but if you are you really do not need to be fitting such large guides which will do nothing for the casting performance or asthetics of your rod. They have a horrid tendancy to rust to.

Mike O.

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