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<p>Acid wrapped rod with bent butt</p>
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I sand hypalon all the time. Not much different than EVA which is somewhat firmer. I use drywall sanding screens and finish off with fine sandpaper to get a smooth finish.
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For my heavy saltwater rods, I prefer Hypalon for its durability. Eva will retain dents while Hypalon will generally not retain dents.
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I bought my two sets a few years ago and do not remember a guide spacing chart . Do you have one on your website?
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Do you have a guide placement chart available?
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Do you have a guide placement chart available?
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Made in China would be my guess and not getting shipments.
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Made in China would be my guess and not getting shipments.
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Not even thinking about white gas. Anyways, that is not sold in CA either. I have a gal of denatured being shipped from Florida. Will be here in a week.
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Thks to everyones responses. They are all appreciated. I do have butane torches but the heat is too high for what I do. Thanks to one of our members who clued me to Amazon. I found DNA there and am having a gallon shipped to me from Florida. It was about 2.5 times more than what I was paying but this will last me a long time if I use the iso for cleaning instead of the dna.
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Thanks everyone. Not going to build a still and not going to use E85 gas. I don't think that is is clean burning enough. My hardware told me Kerosene but that stuff burns black smoke. I think that I need to clean my workshop and start using the heat gun. Isopropyl is ok for clean ups.
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Yeah, thanks but old habits and it is what works for me. The heat gun blows too much dust. I need to clean my work area...lol Looks like white gas has been banned too. Back packers are all looking for alternative fuel too. I see 70% isopropyl has skyrocked in price locally if you can find it. I found some at a 99 cent store but the price is like $25 per gallon jug...so what happened to the
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I use it for bubble bursting and for brush cleaning.
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With the ban of Denatured alcohol in California, what would you use as a substitute for the alcohol lamps fuel?
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Click on the library. Here it is:
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Click on the library. Here it is:
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Paul Wray Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mel Shimizu Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Ok, I understand now what you are saying and my > > answer is that I do not use any set formula > such > > as equal spacing as each blank is different. > You > > have to put your guides on
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Ok, I understand now what you are saying and my answer is that I do not use any set formula such as equal spacing as each blank is different. You have to put your guides on and do your stress test to try to get a good straight line path and equal distribution of load on each guide. I will give you my spacing that I use but my measurements that I have recorded are based on my selection of a ful
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Paul Wray Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All, > I am building my first 2 rods ever. 1st is a CRB > 50-100lb class rod and a black hole cape cod > special 450g rod. I have been practicing on the > CRB and then doing the Black Hole blank. I am now > at the point of guide placement, which I want to > be acid wrapped. I don't have a clue
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Spiral roller guides are very difficult to set up properly. I have tried and have come to the conclusion that SIC ringed guides are much easier and better to use. For giant bluefin rods that I build for PEI I use the Fuji HBSG guides. I find that I only need two sizes in my builds. I start with a size 20 and the rest are all size 12 using a three guide transition and a aftco bent butt. No ne
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Salt water rods are not often layed down like a bass rod would be. My spiral always goes to the left for a right handed angler to make laying the line onto the reel easier but I really do not think that it matters very much.
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I dont think you can print on those.
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No Tom, I am not the one that had a failure. Mine have never broken at the ferrule nor anywhere else. I feel confident that my builds are strong.
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Thanks everyone. And yes, lots of wall thickness where I cut.
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My builds are all spiral wrapped and the broken rod was spiral wrapped as well although I do not have any information about guide placement. In the 12 rods that I have built, I have had zero broken. In fact a couple rods have caught over 20 giant tunas on it ranging up to 800 + lbs.
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The blank is 6 ft long. It is necessary to cut from the butt about 12 inches to fit into the unibutt to maintain its 6 ft long length. I have cut over a dozen of these blanks in the past few years and the wall thickness is the same at the end of the butt and at where I cut. A uncut blank will not fit a #2 ferrule but any cut from 6 inches up will require a shim so no sanding would every be re
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No the rod was facing the water and is stiff enough that it cannot hit the gunnel.I can only guess that it was properly glued and would not move in the ferrule. It was not my build and I was asked for my opinion by the distributor. I am not sure about the breaks usually occuring right at the reel or foregrip. Is this common? I assume that that the most common place would be where the blank be
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The video that i saw where the rod broke was only with 35 lbs of drag on a blank that normally we fish upwards to 65 lbs of drag. The fish weighed 350 lbs whereas we have landed giants over 900 lbs with no problem. The only difference was that this was being fished on the gunnel whereas we only fish standup with pad and harness. The rod was not in a high stick position as the fish was out from
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I build giant tuna rods using aftco ferrules and short bent butts. None of my rods have ever broke but recently heard of several that broke at the ferrule. I was asked how this could have happened? My first response was either builder error or faulty blank. I have been giving it more thought and now I think that it is most likely builder error. I now think that the metal ferrule creates a s
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