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First rod ?
Posted by:
Jack Goodwin
(---.caltel.com)
Date: June 22, 2006 09:28AM
This is my first rod, I have the handle done and am starting to play with the giudes.
The tip top I am using is a ICMNST and it has a little tab comming off it-I would guess to wrap. My question is do I wrap just to the tube?(but the tube not on top) Which direction to wrap towards the tip or away? I hope you all understand my ? Thanks Jack Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Chris Karp
(---.netpenny.net)
Date: June 22, 2006 09:41AM
Wrap just up to the tube. Guides / tops are wraped from the blank up the guide foot, the same is done on a tip top start a short measured distance away then wrap towards the top.
Its good to install the tip top, then go to the other end and wrap the 1st guide, then the middle guide and aftervthat work outwrad from that middle guide. Some put the tip top on , then wrap the middle guide and after that, the guides on either side of the middle guide, working progressively outward, to keep the blank in a balance when hand wrapping without a support structure. Guides can be slid arpund the rod balnk even when tied before CP is applied. You should not be wrapping guides so tight that they can not be moved or repositioned for straightness Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Jack Goodwin
(---.caltel.com)
Date: June 22, 2006 09:47AM
Thanks,
OK ,I am not using a winding check And just going to wrap thread to the grip maybe 3/4"-1" ? Do I wrap towards the grip? Thanks Jack Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Cliff Hall
(---.dialup.ufl.edu)
Date: June 22, 2006 10:08AM
Jack - Wrap OVER the Tab-foot of this ICMNST Tip-Top, but it is NOT necessary to wrap any further up or over the Tube itself.
As with any Guide Foot, it is recommended to start the Wrap on the Rod Blank, moving toward the Guide Toe. Then UP the Toe-ramp and toward the Guide Ring (Tip-Top Ring in your case). Pack the Threads on the Rod Blank TOWARD the Toe. Pack the Threads on the FOOT BODY TOWARD the TOE also. I don't have a pictuire of your ICMNST in front of me. But like any Guide Wrap, do not wrap so far up the frame and supporting Ring Legs (Guides) or Ring Arms (Tip-Tops) that the Thread starts looking like a high tension guy-wire holding down a telephone pole. Keep the Thread on the BODY of the TabFoot toward the heel, and do not let it get exposed to impact or cutting with a high-flying ascent up the Ring Arms. The TabFoot on the newer Tip-Tops lets you decide if you want to use (Glue + Thread) to hold the Tip-Top in place. Or if you want to try Thread only, for a less complicated field repair in the case of a cracked Ring. MAINLY, the TabFoot when wrapped keeps the Tip-Top from rotating if the glue- adhesive should somehow fail. Using both Glue and Thread is probably how most rod-builders would mount these Tip-Tops. ... -Cliff Hall+++ Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Jack Goodwin
(---.caltel.com)
Date: June 22, 2006 10:17AM
Thank you---Thank you---Thank you Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Mike Barkley
(---.try.wideopenwest.com)
Date: June 22, 2006 10:34AM
Jack, One thing that wasn't mentioned. Guide foot prep is a VERY important step that needs to be done first. I normally install Tip first and use it to line up all of the other guides and then temp attach all the guides using the New Guide Concept method, do static deflection (Check Library at top of page) and finaslly wrap the guides starting with the 1st (butt guide) and work towards the tip. 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!! Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Ryan Wampler
(---.hsd1.pa.comcast.net)
Date: June 22, 2006 10:55AM
Jack, I don't think anyone answered your questions about which direction to wrap in. For wrapping the tip-top and the butt wrap, start at the top or grip and wrap away from it. This will allow you to pack the wraps tight to the top or grip. If you wrapped the opposite direction when you did the pull through, you would end up creating a gap at the top or grip.
Hope that helped! Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Mike Barkley
(---.try.wideopenwest.com)
Date: June 22, 2006 12:53PM
Oops!! You're right Ryan. I didn't even mention that 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!! Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Cliff Hall
(---.dialup.ufl.edu)
Date: June 22, 2006 03:00PM
GENERAL QUESTION: -(Not to Hijack, but ...)-
With these Bayonet-Foot Tip-Tops, do the Foot Bottoms LAY FLUSH with the Rod Blank? From the photographs I have seen, it is hard to tell: If the Foot is extended FROM the Tube Wall, and has the same RADIUS of curvature underneath as the Radius for the Tube Axis; Or if the Foot is fused onto the TOP of the Tube, leaving a bit of an AIR-GAP under the Foot, equal to the thickness of the Tube Wall? Is it better to bend down the Foot a bit, or use a thin underwrap, as a space-filler, ... or the usual, "It depends, ..." ... Thanks, -Cliff+++ Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Jack Goodwin
(---.caltel.com)
Date: June 22, 2006 04:57PM
Thanks for the info Ryan, I was thinking from the grip out and the same on the tip top to keep it tight but the tip top I am using has a foot like a guide so I don't know if it is better to wrap up the foot like a guide or start at the tip top (to keep tight) and go down the foor. I was concerned about the tie off that is why I am asking.
Thanks for everyones help. Jack Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Ryan Wampler
(---.hsd1.pa.comcast.net)
Date: June 23, 2006 06:45AM
I've never used that style of tip top, but looking at them, I would think it would be difficult to wrap from the tip down and manage to keep the thread packed tightly. I'm sure you are going to need to prep that guide too. Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Derek McMaster
(---.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net)
Date: June 23, 2006 06:48PM
Cliff...That is exactly what I was wondering as well...Building a surf rod that call for one of those silly tips but I have never held one let alone wrapped one and found myself wondering how they work.
Derek Derek L. McMaster Rohnert Park, CA Born to Fish, FORCED to Work Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Jack Goodwin
(---.caltel.com)
Date: June 23, 2006 07:15PM
On my top the (Bayonet) Is not fused to the top of the tube so As you wrap it sits tight to the blank.(ICMNST)
Jack Re: First rod ?
Posted by:
Cliff Hall
(---.dialup.ufl.edu)
Date: June 23, 2006 09:31PM
Jack said: On my ICMNST Tip-Top, the Bayonet-Foot is not fused to the top of the tube. So, as you wrap, it sits tight to the blank. ...
Thanks, Jack. -Cliff Hall+++ Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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