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Blank usage
Posted by: Steve Hartzell (---.rsvlcmta01.rlvlar.lr.dh.suddenlink.net)
Date: July 21, 2013 03:49PM

A while ago I bought two Pac Bay Rain Forest II MBC783 blanks. I got a great deal on them. I'm thinking about building one as a casting setup and one as a spinning setup. Since these are "Mag Bass" blanks and meant to be built as casting rigs, does it make sense to build one as a spinning rig or will that setup not work well?

Steve Hartzell
Lake Conroe - Willis, Texas

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Re: Blank usage
Posted by: Randolph Ruwe (---.hsd1.wa.comcast.net)
Date: July 21, 2013 03:59PM

Nearly any blank can be made for spinning except off shore rod blanks rated for 50#'s on up.

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Re: Blank usage
Posted by: Dennis Danku (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: July 21, 2013 04:39PM

Randy I kinda agree with you but, if someone was paying you to set up that blank for a spinnig reel, you wouldn't do it?

Dennis J. Danku
(Sayreville,NJ)

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Re: Blank usage
Posted by: Randolph Ruwe (---.hsd1.wa.comcast.net)
Date: July 21, 2013 04:52PM

Dennis, I have made spinning rods for up to 30# IGFA rods, I do not however know of a spinning reel that would have the capacity to be loaded with enough 50# test line to work with a rod blank rated for 50# test line. They may be out there, but I don't know of one. .A Marlin or Tuna can strip off hundreds of yards of line and needs a reel with a large capacity. I made a couple of IGFA 6# test rods for a famous fisherman but they were for conventional reels. He set a couple of records off Christmas Island in the Pacific.

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Re: Blank usage
Posted by: Tom Kirkman (Moderator)
Date: July 21, 2013 06:22PM

The blank has no idea what type of rod it's being used for. It's a tubular shaft, that's all.

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Re: Blank usage
Posted by: roger wilson (---.hsd1.mn.comcast.net)
Date: July 21, 2013 06:42PM

I have built a few of those blanks up as spinning rods and they work very well.

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Re: Blank usage
Posted by: Steve Hartzell (---.rsvlcmta01.rlvlar.lr.dh.suddenlink.net)
Date: July 21, 2013 07:11PM

I knew that's what you all would say, I just wanted to make sure. Thanks for the feedback.

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