Ok....i did it this time, new I would do it sooner or later....Anyhow I finished glueing my reelseat with my overlayed handled today on a flyrod. Basically the metal part of the top of the real seat is glued to the realseat and hidden by the cork which is bored out....

On the bottom the non-threaded piece of the reel seat doesnt line up with the top piece. I need it turned about 90 degrees. Not sure where to start. I used flex coat five minute epoxy. I tried heating with a lighter, and moving it and it wouldnt budge.

Any help on where the best place to start is...I really dont want to cut off the handle, what can i try to get that end threaded piece to budge.....Feel free to laugh.

Jeffery,
I have been successful in boiling some handles off. I would only submerse the part that you want to come off as the glue may soften in a place you don't want it to. I would also be careful in "twisting" off the seat as the shear forces my cause the blank to delaminate.

Hope that this helps you out a bit.

Tom Kaufmann
GySgt USMC

Tom-

Thank You! It worked I got it off. I was suprised as reading this before I was somewhat skeptical, however it worked quite well. I rebored the reelseat and all is well.

Thanks A lot, I got in a bad accident fishing and damaged my right eye so Im not fealing that bad about the mistake LOL...

very sorry to hear about the eye, hope that all is going well for you now. I am glad that the suggestion helped you out. I just had to redo a handle in the same manner. Don't really want to share why I had to do it over... Lets just say OOPPPSSS. LOL.

take care and god's speed.

Tom Kaufmann
GySgt USMC