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Something I found useful saltwater hook keeps
Posted by:
Jeffrey Wolfanger
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Date: August 16, 2007 02:22PM
For those building saltwater rods, one thing I found useful in reference to hookkeeps is using a rec saltwater snakeguide...I use size 2....I didnt invent this, saw it on a rod in Texas and liked the idea....I personally dont perfer there guides, on a baitcaster. However if you are putting titanium guides on a rod for saltwater, make sence to make the hook keep as corrosion resistent as possible. Yes, I know there titanium alloy.
Re: Something I found useful saltwater hook keeps
Posted by:
Dave Hauser
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Date: August 16, 2007 03:40PM
Good thought.
I have some 16g titanium V6 alloy and 304 stainless wire I was using to bend them up from,,,,, but prefab is certainly easier sometimes. If you want to play with it a bit, you can get anodized titanium wire in colors as well. Not as bright or varied in colors as anodized aluminum, but it adds some choices. Re: Something I found useful saltwater hook keeps
Posted by:
Jeffrey Wolfanger
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Date: August 16, 2007 03:46PM
Yeah, colors would be great...Would be interested in hearing the bending process, also where can you by the anodized titanium in color? Any place on line? Re: Something I found useful saltwater hook keeps
Posted by:
Billy Vivona
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Date: August 16, 2007 07:06PM
You can anodize Titanium yourself. I believe if you search .org fr teh user name ED SINN, it should pop up. MAybe anodizing Titanium too. TEHre's instructions on Google on how to rig it up yourself.
I bel;iev eanodized titanium is sold to teh knife makers, do a Google, it should pop righ tup. Re: Something I found useful saltwater hook keeps
Posted by:
Dave Hauser
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Date: August 17, 2007 01:02AM
Jeffrey,,,,, I have tripped over several places, but I like the lines that [theringlord.com] carry. One of the few places that has square stainless wire too.
Something as simple as a hook keeper is nothing to bend up with just a pair of needle nose pliers. You want to play with more compilcated things, then there are wire forming tools. So far I have either just formed with pliers, around objects like bolt heads, or using nails in a piece of wood as a jig. There are some craft wire forming jigs that basically look like a grid of holes in an aluminum plate, and insertable metal dowel pins that go in those holes. Nice idea, and they are fine for soft and light wire I guess, but have found they work poorly for anything over about 20 gauge in steel and titanium. Re: Something I found useful saltwater hook keeps
Posted by:
Dave Hauser
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Date: August 17, 2007 01:21AM
Yeah Billy,,, I saw roll your own anodizing instructions too. Contemplated it for a bit last Winter, but it appears you need to have pretty decent control to get a particular color. Even the guys who do it for a living have some trouble with that. Anodizing aluminum is far simpler in comparison, as there you just add a dye for the color you want. Figured for as little of the stuff as I would play with, it wasn't worth the hassle to do it myself.
I have sorta wondered about doing my own TiN plating though. Saw a nice little vacuum chamber/oven at a place that handles second hand cleanroom equipment. Just would need to add a laser (and crucible I think), and TiN coating at home should be possible. I'd have a bit more use for that than anodizing. In no time flat I'd be plating all the reel parts I could, and probably a lot of stuff in the tackle bag too. Just another thing in the LONG list of possible to-do's. :-) Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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