Finished putting epoxy on rod last night.
Sat with it for an hour and fifteen minutes turning by hand
Sat there watching it in the dryer for another two hours forty five mins NO problems
Went back five minutes later to find rod had jumped from the end rest and fallen out of the dryer

Makes me laugh really sit there with it all that time and the second your back is turned gremlins throw it about.
Why cant they go and play somewhere else

i guess they gremlins got you b/c I wasn't working on a rod last night, lol

You could always invent and market a "Gremlin Getter"

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LOL, that must have been the same gremlin that was at my house on Wednesday! I had just put the first coat of Flex Coat on my 2C66MHF (I set it up as a spinning rod) and it was looking good. I put it on before I had to go to work and then ate breakfast and got dressed. I was at the door ready to leave when I heard a crash from the basement...my heart sank. I knew what the sound was. I rushed downstairs to see my freshly epoxied rod had fallen off of the dryer. I attach the butt of the rod to a grill rotisserie setup (I use it for drying muskie lures but it doubles as a rod dryer) and it had come loose and fallen off. The tip was still sitting in the "v" notch of the cardboard box (thank God!) and the fighting butt was resting on the floor. The only part of the rod that was damaged was the epoxy on the tip-top where it had touched the box.

Fortunately it was an easy fix and the rod came out great. I fished the rod this morning before work and it casts like a dream! I set it up using BYAG 30, 16, 8 and BLAG 4's for runners. Sweet rod, close call!

jeremy

...almost same scenario a couple of weeks ago, Murphy struck. Rotated a just-finished rod by hand for a half hour or so, making sure everything was leveled and looking good. Flipped on the dryer and left for work. Came home to a mess. Found that the plastic cable tie that holds the outer portion of the dryer on slipped off, rotated it's merry way four feet or so up to my first V support, and coated about every mm of the rod in collected finish on it's way. It turned into a long evening with a bottle of denatured, for the rod that is. ;)

those gremlins work in wierd ways, i was very excited about my last rod, even had to lay out more distance markers, went into shop to get some survey tape to mark the new distance,
I am sitting here with a cast on left ankle. to add insult to injury i had to hobble back out into the field and get my rod.
good news since i can't work guess what i am doing with all this spare time

LOL you gotta lovvvve them gremlins aint ya

I think they live in my home, and just go to yours on occasion.