I'm looking for some plastic sleeves like a rod blank comes in and some maybe a tad bigger for offshore guides to be able to slide into them. I have a couple 3 year olds in the house and would like to better protect the Rods while their here. Anyone use this type protection?

The Rod blanks I get come packed in variousweights of pvc pipe some in plastic electric conduit. I use the PVC forrod tubes for all my rods. I prefer the 125 to 160PSI grades as it is quite a bit lighter than the schedule 40. You can get it at most plumbing supply stores. Lowe's and Home Depot may carry it also. It's fairly inexpensive $4 or $5 for a 10 ft joint.

Bruce will I have to worry about it scuffing the rod?

Tom,
Buy or make a rod bag from a soft cloth. I use cotton flannel. The bag will eliminate any chance of "scuffing" the rod.

Mike Blomme

There are packaging supply houses that carry the narrow plastic bags you mention. U-line is one source but you'll have to buy a 100 yard roll most likely.

Save the bags your blanks come in if you can. They can be reused.

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Tom I have just what you're looking for in 4'' widths in various lengths. The bags that blanks come in is usually 2 mils thick. The bags I have is 4 mil thick. Just give me a call to palce an order and for pricing.

Lance

Swampland and Mudhole both carry what you want.

Spinning rods (with 25 and 30 butt guides) will not fit into a 4" sleeve. You will need to purchase 6" plastic. Casting rods and fly rods will fit into the smaller material.

The bags I use come in a roll, cut off what you need. The roll came from Mudhole . It is a 3" wide roll and very heavy material. It will accommodate any rod I build.

J.B.Hunt
Bowling Green, KY

The reason I stock the 4'' bags is because a spinning rod with a size 30 guide DOES fit inside of a 4'' bag. I use them all the time when I build my production rods and when they're ready to be stored. They are also large enough to store stand up rods and also some trolling rods, except rods built with Aftco Big Foot guides.

Lance



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Tom,
Yes, U line is an excellent source for rolls of various widths poly bags.
I have picked up rolls of various widths to handle various types of rods. i.e. larger for spinning rods and smaller for bait casting rods.

Another thing that I picked up - which really makes a very nice job - is an Impulse sealer.

An impulse sealer is a machine which has a top plate and a bottom plate of fairly narrow width. The impulse part of the name means that one simply puts the end of the poly bag between the plated. The top plate is pushed down, a timed impulse of electric current is sent to the heating plates to heat and seal the bag in a few seconds.
The advantage of using an impulse sealer is that once the temp and time is dialed in for the bags being used, no further adjustment is required and you have a perfect seal on the end of the bag every time.

Using this bagging system is many many times better than any former system that I had used for protecting rods prior to shipment.
With these poly bags and impulse sealer, it takes about 1 minute to bag and seal a rod for shipment.
I normally have a label printed out - to go inside the bag with rod details.

Easy and simple.

[www.uline.com]

A source for u line products. Note the sealers as well as a wide variety of poly bag rolls.

Take care
Roger

You don't have to worry about moisture in a sealed bag?

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Alex,
I suppose you would if you had any source for moisture. When I put a rod in a bag, it is in a warm dry room, with a well cured finish.
In the summer time the room is air conditioned and thus low humidity.

I suppose that if one were bagging a rod in the heat of a high humid summer without air conditioning, one might have to worry a bit.

Take care
Roger

p.s.
If you really did have a worry, you could always drop in a bag of material to dry out any moisture that might happen to be trapped - as is the case for certain material shipments from certain locations in the world.

Thanks everyone for the help. I do reuse my blank bag when smaller guides are used. But I have a couple of tuna rods and a jigging rod they just want cover.

I use stick jackets on all my rods. I'm sure sponsors on the left carry them. They come in multiple sizes and colors work great and relatively cheap