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Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by:
Donald R Campbell
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Date: March 16, 2021 05:30PM
I had a customer bring by an older G. Loomis NRX casting rod by with cracked epoxy on a couple of guides. Can anyone help me out with the thread they used to wrap the NRX guides? The newer NRX has a light blue thread; but these are wrapped with a blue-green thread. i thought I found a close match with some Fish Hawk thread and re-wrapped the two guides. The only major problem was the Fish Hawk threads was not color fast and I didn't put on any color preserver before applying the epoxy! You guess it .... it turned totally dark and now I am faced with a redo! Bummer. I tried contacting G. Loomis / Shamano and the hold time is outrageous ..."due to technical difficulties"! Don Campbell don@sensorfishingrods.com Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by:
Spencer Phipps
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Date: March 16, 2021 06:23PM
I was told years ago Blue Dun NCP. Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by:
Peter Yawn
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Date: March 16, 2021 08:59PM
Blue Dun NCP is correct. No idea what brand Loomis used, but I used fuji and thought the match was pretty good. Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by:
Theron @ American Tackle
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Date: March 16, 2021 10:37PM
I recently built a buzz worm rod for fishing grass using an American Tackle Bushido CB72/10-20 with American Tackle component to look like exactly what you're talking about. I used ProWrap 434 thread for the project and it came out as close as you can get.
Here is a link to the rod: [www.rodbuilding.org] Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by:
chris c nash
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Date: March 17, 2021 02:02AM
Wow, I knew that color looked familiar , I wasn't sure what the 434 Pro Wrap color was but I just looked it up and it's their 'Maui Surf' color which is what I just wrapped my latest surf rod build with . I complemented it with the 'Neon Yellow' 122 for trim rings and I think it looks great .
I'm half color blind and the 413 'Island Lagoon' color looks identical to me to the 434 . Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by:
Donald R Campbell
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Date: March 17, 2021 02:04PM
Spencer Phipps Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I was told years ago Blue Dun NCP. Spence, That is the color of the Fish Hawk thread that I used. I just didn't use any color preserver, before I applied the epoxy. It turned dark blue. Maybe I'll have to give it another thy with color preserver. Thanks for your reply, Don Don Campbell don@sensorfishingrods.com Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by:
Donald R Campbell
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Date: March 17, 2021 02:06PM
Peter Yawn Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Blue Dun NCP is correct. No idea what brand Loomis > used, but I used fuji and thought the match was > pretty good. Peter, It is an older NRX and the thread has a green/blue thread on it. maybe it's just aged? Don Don Campbell don@sensorfishingrods.com Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by:
Scott Hovanec
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Date: March 17, 2021 03:47PM
Last one I fixed I used Fuji Blue Dunn NCP. It matched just fine. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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