of all the cataloges i have, the only one that lists the heighth of the guides is the Batson component cataloge. does anybody have info. on any of the other more popular guides like maybe fuji and pac bay. by the way the Batson cataloge is the bast one i,ve seen so far Many thanks for any help you can give.

Does the FUJI website have this ? ... SPONSOR LINK at LEFT [Anglers Rsrc/Fuji] [www.anglersresource.net]. It may be buried in there somewhere, or parsed out with each link for each style of guides. I did try the Link to one set of guides (SiC Concept), but it was not explicit on Height Off the Blank data. My dial-up connection is way too slow for Fuji's website, so that's the end of my participation in this Thread. Good Luck, -Cliff Hall+++

Try this RBO Thread for some data on this subject:
Re: Anyone have the exact heights on Fuji Concept 30mm & 20mm guides? Tom Juster Oct. 25, 2005 09:57PM [www.rodbuilding.org]

Cliff, these heights are here:
[www.fujitackle.com]

I have the digital caliper (0.02mm accuracy) and I've remeasured some Fuji's guides.
Y30=59mm
Y20=51mm

Bingo ! - Thanks, Alexander Chunikhin. I see you are the same fellow who posted this information last year. Thanks a lot, Alex. [www.fujitackle.com/catalog/guide.html] By the way, in the BLUE shaded boxes, what are those tabulated values? - Is that the MASS in GRAMS for the GUIDE? -Cliff Hall+++, Gainesville, FL-USA.

Re: Fuji Guide specs Alexander Chunikhin 10-07-04 01:49
Dear Rich Levy: try this one: [www.fujitackle.com]
Sizes of [Concept] Alconite and SiC are the same."

:)))

Cliff.
No. Blue shared boxes is retail prices in Japanese yens.
Weight of YSG30J is 5.12g, YSG20J -2.36g, BYAG30J - 6.00g, BYAG20J - 2.66g.

I have pharmaceutical scales (10mg accuracy).

Catalog of Anglers Resource 2004-2005, page 10.
"Fuji engineers were also able to make Alconite the thinnest and lightest ceramic ring available today;
even 7% lighter than standard SiC Rings!"

Strange information, isn't it ?

ALEX - Thanks very much for the great additional information. Now I can see the relative mass (and heights) of these guides, and do some extrapolation.

Very interesting about the Alconite ring guides supposedly weighing ~ 7% less than the SiC ring guides in the "J" - Concept Styles. "Fascinating" as Mr. Spock would say, ... but possibly an error on the part of the whoever is responsible for that information in the Angler's Resource Catalog 2004-05, page 10. Because the masses you provided Alex show that the OVERALL weight of the entire SiC Guide is about 10-15% LESS THAN the weight of the entire ALCONITE Guide. Maybe they meant the mass of the RING by itself, excluding the metal frame. ... An interesting statistic, but it doesn't translate into an actual reduction in comparative masses for guides.

Surely any typical V-frame or Y-frame guide in a 16mm size or less weighs less than 2.00 grams (~ 1 / 16th oz), and that helps me make some predicitons and distinctions in my designs. (As in: Any size single-foot guide under size 10mm (~ 1 / 32 oz) is lite enough for all but the litest of rod blanks.)

Thanks, -Cliff Hall+++ cmkmhall@ufl.edu



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/05/2005 03:29PM by Cliff Hall.