First thank you for all the help. My freind came over with his chuck we measured the jaws and found that one had a taper it measured smaller on the outside edge . andHe read all the posts
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First thank you for all the help. My freind came over with his chuck we measured the jaws and found that one had a taper it measured smaller on the outside edge . andHe read all the posts
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thank you all for the help I will pass this on to my freind the odd thing is i have the same wrapper and have no problems .
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My friend has a american power wrapper that he got used the rod walks out of the deluxe chuck and some times pulls the rubber jaw feet out of chuck with the blank. He has looked at the one I have to see if anything was different can't see any thing.He has got new rubber feet for it and that didn't help.
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don't know what chuck you have with the power wrapper but the chuck upgrade has degree marks on the fly wheel that is what i use along with the ambient light to draw line down blank.
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check out mudholes CRB value E-Glass blanks
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Try Donart
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so that the bubble problem doesn't happen again I put 3 or more coats of color preserver on cross wraps to get the bubbles out before the epoxy. the rod sound damaged in a spot that I believe gets a lot of pressure .in the forum library there is a page on repairing broken rods you might try one and hide it with a new cross wrap.
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I have used Gorilla glue on some party boat rental rods and have not seen any come back with a failure there is no mixing.I also use two part paste epoxy on other grips and reel seats on other rods and like that alot and hot melt glue for tip tops.
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I don't know if this will help but when you tighten the bit in the chuck you need to tighten at all three locations in the chuck to put equel pressure to make the bit straight.
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what I found out was to sit i a chair and take the blank and lay it across both thighs with butt end at one hold blank down with one hand and push tip end down with other hand and roll across our high you can fell were the spine is when you roll it back and forth. no need for spine finder.
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I got one at staples
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strip the rod down you will learn alot . on a first build I would buy a kit were every thing will fit together nice .tryin to learn what to order at first is hard .
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I fish from a boat in the delaware bay and atlantic ocean for what ever is dumb enough to get on my hook {flounder,croakers,black sea bass,black drum ,blackfish,striped bass,cod,ling, sea trout and tile fish. use mostly a conventional rod and reel set up of differant sizes. use braid with short mono leader.
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what william sidney was talking about its the Forham locking wrap in the library i use it on single foot guide I learned about it here.
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I take a permanemt black marker to cover where i filed the feet down and I found out on here to use color preserver on all thread wraps
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I use 3+5 index cards i put down the Blank, guide spacing ,size, reel seat, thread color,ect I just do it for a hobby.
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I think Being fair with people will go a long way but .Is this your livelihood or your hobby ? Give the person the option of doing it them self or you would charge 10.00 dollars
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I have made a few rods with those blanks I made a boat rod from a is701m purple for my daughter I cut one foot off tip section to make it 6 feet she caught a 12 lbs blue fish with it .I made a flounder jigging rod from the is7o1h and i have a order for another .I think they are nice blanks for the money .
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ken what do you mean by high stick?
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Randolph drag was set at 7lbs checked it with two scales Ken the line was broken far away from were the rod broke and it is a clean break on the half of rod that i have Fred I put sinker on the deck when we go to move, mate had put gloves on,
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the line was 30lbs spider wire on a penn 310 GTI
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I was out fishing hooked up a 20 pound shark .i was raising up on rod with a lot of power for the mate ot get ahold of the leader when bang the rod and line broke don"t know if the line broke first or the rod. The line broke away from the break in the rod .The rod blank was a graphite blank don't have any other info on it .The break was between guides it has a angle going from the bottom to
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I also Make what I call glue slugs by taking the hot glue gun and running the glue out on a aluminum pie plate the size and thickness that i want.when ready to put tips on I take a glue slug put it into tip apply heat from a little butane torch melt the glue inside tip tube .Put tip on blank 180 degree from its true place and turn to spread glue around the hit it with spray of water to cool.I ha
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chris I have a spool of Madera 1678 bright orange that is a close match to my flyers Jersey. If you would like some to try I live 10 minutes from the wells fargo center if you are close by
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on the daiwa web site the saltist level wind reel has a reel clamp .which you can use if you want. a convenventional reel seat is good with the clamp or a trigger reel seat with out the clamp if the preson is going to use it as a casting rod.
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I have not put the eyes on yet but the reel seat has a nice shape to it where your trigger finger fit around to the sides my hand and finger are large and they fit. this is my first blanked expose seat so I have nothing to compare to in blank exposed .I used the palm support and liked then alot.Jim let us know what FUJI says
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I Just put one on a blank the other day.Just went down to my work area to compare to other reel seats.tthe only thing I could see was the trigger had more of a curve in it compared to another Fuji trigger reel seat that i put side by side. went back down a second time with a machist square and it looks like the triggger is 7 degree off of being at a 90 degree angle.
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People on charter and party boats don't take care of equipment like the people that own it. The mud hole value eglass that kevin post would be a good blank or a soild glass like tom said..I repair a lot of rods for a fleet of party boats that fish the delaware bay out of Lewes delaware .
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Thank you for your Help.
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