OK,

As I have had a holiday oops................I put a spinning reel seat skeleton on my rod when I meant to put on a trigger reel seat for a casting rod. Does it matter that the reel seat does not have the trigger? if so, how do I get it all apart, besides the obvious, now that it is all glued up. (rear/reel seat/foregrip).

Dave

Cut a small notch along the reel seat - Hack saw or even better a dremel. Be very careful to not cut into the blank.

Use a screwdriver to pry it open and off. You can also use light heat on the surface of the seat if you have a really tough spot.

Then carefully remove the bushings, if need be. I use a razor for rough work staying far away from the blank. Then I scrap and apply light heat for the rest.

HTH,
Christian

Cut your rod into at the center of the seat. Remove parts of old seat and bushings etc. Make new bushings, make an enternal plug about six inches long to fit equally on each side of cut.It may be easier to glue the plug into the butt half and let dry and then glue the two parts together making sure to line up the seat with the guides. I have been using this method since the late eighties and once you get use to it ,it is a 24 hr. repair with the cost of the new seat being the only cost. Jesse

No trigger? No problem! Just get used to the feel.

My 2 cents.

Thanks for the tip Jesse ! An easy repair!

Raymond Adams
Eventually, all things merge, and a river runs through it..

Thanks, Jesse. Great method!!



Mike (Southgate, MI)
If I don't want to, I don't have to and nobody can make me (except my wife) cuz I'm RETIRED!!

Jesse,

I'm sure it's just me but not sure I follow. I made the reel seat from wood and used a skeleton. After I cut through the wood and/or hood aspect, where the trigger should be, how do you get the new hood, with the trigger, back on? In two pieces and epoxy them together as halves?

Dave

Jesse, will your method work on a heaver-class rod? How about a wireline rod, something with a little more stress throughout. Do you make the plug from a solid glass blank?

One day I need to drop by your shop to see how you do this...

Lou

David
If you have the butt handle on ?? Then you either take the handle off, then the seat or cut the blank and do it Jesse's way.
Or if the guides and foregrip are not on slide it on that way



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/24/2005 11:13AM by bill boettcher.

Ray, This way the entire reel seat is replaced. Sounds as if you should just use it as it is. Lou, Most wire line rods around here are solid glass, in this case it's easier to take off the gimbal and skin the butt grip off and change the seat . I have made an external splice before, hollow glass over solid glass, on small rods. Jesse