I have a question that i am sure has already been answered on here but i can not find it , how much heat would be too much for a blank or a finished rod? T he reason i ask is I always keep my blanks and finished rods in my home because my shop gets very hot in the weather we have been having , and i don't want to take the chance of ruining them but it is a pain to have to store them inside my home. Any ideas out there ?

i do my work in my garage and the temp there is around 80-90 degrees. great for working with epoxy, but i havn't seen any problems with my rods.
taken into consideration that these rods are outdoors, on a boat in the sun, etc. hope this helps a bit..

You should be safe up to around 220 degrees (F) for a rod blank since oven temps during manufacture are around 250-280 (some times more). Finished rods less if you are using any heat-melt adhesives for tip tops.

Right, it's unlikely anything in the realm of a shop, even without air conditioning, is going to harm your rods. In the back seat of a car, in the sun, for days on end, however, might damage the finish and wraps, but not the blank.

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Care for you equipment is quite important -

Location and method of storage is important -

For bass and inshore rods -

A properly cured graphite blank should have 100 percent recovery if the materials of construction temperature limit is not exceeded.

Do not push your luck!

Glass blanks have a slight loss of recovery which is a function of temperature. If they do take a slight set they can be straightened with care.

Do not prop glass blanks against the wall at an angle for long term storage -

Do not attach a lure to a hook keeper and reel up slack for storage in a boat locker or hot transport vehicle

Store them vertical when possible.

If you boat has storage compartments that hold your rods select the ones with the straightest tubes for the glass or composite rods.

Store them properly and they will reward you by not taking a set that you do not want.

Larry,
You could do some testing for us.

Take an old rod and cut it into pieces that will fit into your oven.

Turn on the heat for a few hours at a time.
Keep increasing the heat, until the rod is destroyed.

Let us know how hot it has to be before the rod fails.

Be safe and stay warm.

Roger

A friend of mine left a (glass) rod locked in his car for security, with a bend in it so it would fit.
It was a hot day, the rod stayed slightly bent permanently.