a friend of mine has an old shimano fighting rod, the one that tapers right into the handle, its old but he really loves that rod, and the finish is chipping off, you can scratch it off with you thumb nail. He would like to save it and have it refinished, to look new again. so can the finish be just sanded in the areas that are flaking off, or does the whole rod need to be sanded and the old fini
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bps= bass pro shops
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i searched and found those last nite, there is a place not far from here that sells them, i am going to check them out over the weekend.
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Maybe i could get the neoprene ones and do that to enlarge it. Would probably work ok. There is a seamstress across town. Thanks for an idea to try. I only have a couple rods with them on so wouldnt be to haed for her to do. Terry
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I bought some rod covers from bps for my spinning rods that I built, with microwave guides, the cover is for 6-6.6 rods, but they dont fit over the guide closest to the reel. Can someone point to the ones that will fit. thank you
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just placed another order with them, they are great to deal with
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posted a pic of the strips i built to replace the ones that came with the rails, in the equipment section
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currently I have a rod on the wrapper, and can not turn it over to get the pics. but if you look at the plates that come with the rails, they have 4 holes, and are quite thin, so the 1/8 in thick alum strips bolt in their place and dont have very much give to them. when I get the wrap done i will get some pics up of them.
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I bought the rail kit for the hand wrapper, and the rails are nice the plates and screws they include were not to my liking, so I got some 1/8" alum (the same width, and cut it into 4 pieces and drilled it to match the ones that came with it) from Fleet farm, and made new ones, now it is rock solid.
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thank you for the replies, i knew everyone would have ideas on these, i will hold on to them and i like the look of the CF inserts. terry
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Hello: I was given 5 castaway exposed blank reel seats, they are 14MM, 14.5MM & 15MM which I had no idea what that was when they were given to me, so I would like to be able to use them, but the bass rods I build are way too small for that size. Is there any way that these can be made useful or do I need to find someone that needs them that big to give them to? thanks for any ideas
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Any idea if they will be ready to ship soon. It looks to be a good idea and i wouldnt mind trying one.
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they will have some of the stuff, if you get the 40% off coupon on line you can get a good deal on one of the Iwatas HP-CS, ($) the Neo (less than 100)gets a lot of people started. you probably already have a compressor, so you need a regulator to get way down in pressure, sometimes as low as 5psi.
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hobby lobby has some of the wicked colors, and otherwise try Chicago airbrush supply
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Createx auto air or wicked color, both are nice
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I would also figure on a reamer kit, like this one it makes fitting the cork handles a lot easier. other places have them, i just knew where to find this one.
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Dream Reamer Cork Reaming Tool
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Got mine yesterday, great looking hat thank you terry
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Congrats Guys,
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Thank You Great looking hat
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So now that the guide is off the rod, and i can bend it back a bit, it is stamped fuji 16, now i just need to find one. i think get bit outdoors still has fuji hardloy guides
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thank you, i will look around and see if i can find anyone that still has them, otherwise i will email you for them
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thank you, i will look around and see if i can find anyone that still has them, otherwise i will email you for them
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the measurements were the ID of the guides they are all double foot guides, i am goint to try to get the smashed one back to a reasonable look to possibly measure the ID of the frame. but probably will see who still has any in stock in black double foot then go from there. thank you for the help
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I need to replace a guide on a friends musky rod, they are fuji hardloy according to the description on the web for the bps pete mania rod. it is the first guide, I measured the next 2, they measured .321 and .265 or so, just guessing the are 6's and 8's, so any ideas for the broken guide? 10 or 12 thanks for the insight.
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I read this yesterday, and in my email from mudhole today they had 18 new crb products, and 1 was a wall mount dryer, for 4 rods..
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did you try google images for trolling rods, may not be a good enough pic there, but you might get lucky
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where will you be posting the video, i would be very interested in watching it
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i could not access the specs on the PB site either, here is the url it takes you to
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they said the IFS model is much lighter and has more feel which sounded good as i want it to be much lighter.
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