Caveat: Loomis GL3's
Posted by:
Ken Driedger
(---.bchsia.telus.net) Date: March 10, 2013 08:28PM
wow. Was I ever bummed out at the following. My chosen method of old guide removal is to slice the threads on top of the guide foot, and remove that _band_ of thread, then grab the loose end, and unwind.
Well. I did that on this GL3 from Loomis, and the top layer of carbon and the gel coat came with the threads !!!!! When I got over my shock and disbelief at this one and only event, I had to wonder what were they thinking when they picked the resin they did !!!
Even the loose tag end pulled off the gel, and the first layer of their dull finish carbon. I can pretty it up easy enough with an under wrap, but wow, such a deal. I'll be glad never to see another GL 3.
Re: Caveat: Loomis GL3's
Posted by:
bill boettcher
(---.dyn.optonline.net) Date: March 10, 2013 08:33PM
It May hot have happened if you had used heat And then took the thread off
heat will softein the fisnish and then is a lot easier to come off
Bill - willierods.com
Re: Caveat: Loomis GL3's
Posted by:
Tom Kirkman
(Moderator) Date: March 10, 2013 08:36PM
It's not indicative of those blanks. Have done it many times and never had that happen. A bad one can and does get out now and then.
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Re: Caveat: Loomis GL3's
Posted by:
Jim Gamble
(---.res.bhn.net) Date: March 10, 2013 10:48PM
Tom Kirkman Wrote:
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> It's not indicative of those blanks. Have done it
> many times and never had that happen. A bad one
> can and does get out now and then.
>
> ...................
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Re: Caveat: Loomis GL3's
Posted by:
Ken Driedger
(---.bchsia.telus.net) Date: March 11, 2013 12:02AM
Bill: this is the first failure on any repair, since 1972 (I've been at this a while...) with no heat....I have seen the results of folks using heat... they destroy the blank because they use too much, weakening the blank so it just falls apart at that place. Thanks just the same. But, I'll go with Tom's analysis....a fluke.
Re: Caveat: Loomis GL3's
Posted by:
bill boettcher
(---.dyn.optonline.net) Date: March 11, 2013 08:38AM
I can understand that - It is a Loomis
Bill - willierods.com
Re: Caveat: Loomis GL3's
Posted by:
John E Powell
(168.169.226.---) Date: March 11, 2013 09:35AM
Bill,
What do you mean exactly about "a Loomis"? I don't understand what you're trying to convey.
Re: Caveat: Loomis GL3's
Posted by:
bill boettcher
(---.dyn.optonline.net) Date: March 11, 2013 03:16PM
TOP OF THE LINE IN BLANKS AND RODS
I have people that want nothing else Just can not find them
Bill - willierods.com
Re: Caveat: Loomis GL3's
Posted by:
Ken Driedger
(---.bchsia.telus.net) Date: March 11, 2013 03:34PM
Loomis is respected in my marketplace... and to make it even easier, they are prepped and wrapped in Canada, by LG Custom Tackle, Mount Hope, Ontario. Unsure if they get the rods already corked, or if they do that in ON. But it makes life easier for sure. It's a pain sending other USA brands back to America. Unless one is fortunate enough to live along the border, to slide across and mail away from the USA.
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