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What Is It?
Posted by: David Green (---.ks.ok.cox.net)
Date: June 15, 2005 02:15PM

Is there such a thing as American Strain Graphite? If there is , what is the difference between "American Strain Graphite" and imported?. I was asked this today and felt like I had been under a rock, because I don't know..
Thanks in advance...

Tight Wraps
DG Rod Works

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Re: What Is It?
Posted by: Anonymous User (Moderator)
Date: June 15, 2005 03:30PM

Some carbon fibers are made in the USA, but most are now made overseas. I suspect whoever tossed that term at you thought they really knew something you didn't, but they don't. I'd be willing to bet that they also prefer fly rods with a "progressive multi-modulus damped action."


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Re: What Is It?
Posted by: Gerry Rhoades (---.unifield.com)
Date: June 15, 2005 03:31PM

Sounds like something Bass Pro Shops would dream up to go with their 80 million modulus blanks.

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Re: What Is It?
Posted by: Emory Harry (---.hsd1.or.comcast.net)
Date: June 15, 2005 04:07PM

David,
Strain is simply the amount that a material, including graphite fibers, will deform in square inches when a force is applied to it and the basic physics is the same in any country. American Strain Graphite sounds like a @#$%& term to me.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/15/2005 04:08PM by Emory Harry.

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Re: What Is It?
Posted by: Bob Balcombe (---.rb2.gh.centurytel.net)
Date: June 16, 2005 03:06AM

I go with Emory. It is like saying. I want American metric, not European metric. Somebody found a Buzz word and is trying to snow you
Good Wraps Bob

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Re: What Is It?
Posted by: David Green (---.ks.ok.cox.net)
Date: June 16, 2005 08:20AM

I thank you all for the replies,
He tried to hit me with that term a second time, but I was ready and told him to get it straight that the proper term would be, American Made High-Modulus/High-Strain Graphite.

Tight Wraps
DG Rod Works

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