Harbor Freight has a $2.00 set of 7 Drill Stop Collars. Here is the website link: Rena
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Timothy, The answer to all of your questions regarding @#$%& Spiral wrap is: YES! Rules for IGFA rods: The rod tip must be 40 inches in length. The rod butt can not exceed 27 inches in length. These measurement must be made from a point directly beneath the center of the reel. A curved butt is measured in a straight line and this measurement shall not exceed 27 inches. None of the abov
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Spencer is absolutely right. Plastic gutter downspout is the way to go. WHY? because it is much lighter and has a square cross-section, which resist bending far more the a circular cross-section. Rena
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Fred, FYI : Any and all rod building motors that are speed controlled with a foot pedal, are absolutely a DC motors, and the direction of rotation can be reversed if you know how to do it. Fred, your motor can be reversed by getting access to the internal wires that are connected to the motor's brushes. Certain types of AC motors can be speed controlled, but never with a simple foot pedal
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The rod is definitely spiral wrapped as shown the following link, which is blown up 400X and the line enhanced for better visibility: click on this link --> Rena
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Tony, Why worry about wear or the use of heavy retail roller guides, when you can buy the best roller tip made for only $14.00. In addition, these roller tips and roller wheels are made of stainless steel and are unconditionally guaranteed for life by All American Guides, As shown on the left side of your monitor screen, All American Guides is also a sponsor of Rodbuilding.org Clic
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Matt Davis is correct " Weld-on is a solvent cement. which chemically welds the plastic together." There are lots of Weld-on products. The correct one for Acrylic is: IPS Corporation's Weld-on #4 Rena
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Roger Wilson, The reference source for aluminum channel, as suggested by Thomas Barry below, does not have the necessary rail for guiding the thread carriage, which is almost mandatory, if you want to wrap long sections of rod blank. Rena
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Fred, You can easily copy Capt. Neils spiral wrapped thread as follows: Start at the beginning of the article, press the left mouse button down and keep holding it down while you scroll across the text, left to right and top to bottom. When the entire text is highlighted, let go of the left mouse button and press the right mouse button down. select copy. Then go to your word processor
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You can not make a spiral wrapped rod with AFTCO lightweight roller guides. The only roller guides that will work with spiral wrap, are made by All American Guides, who are listed on the left as a sponsor of RodBuilding.org Rena
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Al, Nail or glue two pieces of wood together to make an L bracket. Then put a finishing nail covered with plastic tubing, or tape (sized to fit into your tip top eye) into the wood at the same height of the center of your rod chuck. Then place the pin into the tip top and weight the L bracket down so it will not move. This will solve your last guide wrapping problem. Make sure the pin is pi
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Bill Falconer, I went to Custom Tackle Supply and I can not find the foam grip blanks you described in your photo posting. I tried everything possible to no avail. The "Search Function" at that website does not work either. It gives the following error message for everything, including Items listed on the left side of the page, e.g. "Cork" or "Guides" --- etc
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David Rogers said "Titanium isn't as strong as other materials" You got it wrong about Titanium. For a given size, as shown below : 1) Titanium is 280/490 = 0.57 = 57% the weight of steel. 2) Titanium is approximately the same strength as steel (40 - 120) v.s. (46 - 162) Titanium Yield Point = (40 - 120)
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Ted Morgan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- More accurately, "slip on guides for > telescoping rods". ---> WRONG The tubes on the guides are > fixed in size. ----> RIGHT - for each particular sequential guide. Rena
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One definition of telescopic is: "Having parts that slide one within another". To do this, requires tubes that sequentially decrease in size - and that's exactly what the mounting tubes on the telescopic guides do! Hence the name "Telescopic Guides" Rena
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Tom, You said: "Steel or wire framed guides are sized per the inside opening. So in this case the number given is the actual size of the opening. These are also given in mm. " I finally found something related to the I.D. of spinning rings on JANN'S NETCRAFT which said that a size 40 ring has a I.D. = 1-1/16 inch; and a size 50 ring has a I.D. = 1.5 inch. I'm confused becaus
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I have spent hours on the internet trying to find out the Inside diameter of fishing guides in terms of "inches" or "mm" I know the the tip top guides are sized in terms of 1/64 of an inch. 10/64 = size 10 tiptop ; 14/64 = size 14 tip top; etc.--etc. -but I can not find anything about ring guides or spinning guides. 1). I particularly want the I.D. dimensions of spinnin
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In his post, Paul said: "i paul just wondering if some can help me on the butt wrap tool it has a aluminum or a plastic gadget which it must slide can tell me what is for please" I may be wrong, but I believe that Paul already has a butt wrapping tool and want to know what the aluminum or a plastic gadget is for, and how to use it. Rena
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Henry, For someone who says that he was "Limited to Hand Tools" you did a marvelous job on your homemade lathe. Congratulations, Rena
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Paolo, The steel wood might be catching on the fibers and pulling them out. Try the finest wet & dry emery paper you can find (for example: 1000 grit) and sand the surface. If that doesn't work, then you might try quickly flashing the offending area with a mico-torch. Do not let the pointed tip of the fine bright blue flame, get any closer than 2.54 cm away from the surface of the rod.
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Charlie, If your Renzetti does in fact have a bridge rectifier in it, and you want to change the motor direction remotely, you do not have to move (relocate) the bridge rectifier. It is only necessary to rewire the bridge and motor as shown in this diagram as follows: 1). Disconnect the motor wires on the bridge terminals marked plus (+) and minus (-) on this schematic, and then reconnect
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Tom, They say women talk too much, and I just confirmed both that and what my son said to me the other day. He asked me, "Mom, why is it that when I ask a man a question, he gives me a direct answer, but when I ask a woman a question, she talks for 10 minutes?" In my last post, I was addressing Charlie Roberts 1st post, and and his subsequent posts, wherein he was concerned about
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Charlie, I discussed this with my Dad, who is an electrical engineer, with a lifetime of experience with motors and their control. Here is what he said: If you used the 5000 RPM, 1/15 hp motor instead of the 8000 RPM, 1/10 hp motor, you would get a speed reduction of 5000/8000 = 62.5% which after the pulley reduction used, the chuck RPM is apparently not sufficient for your purposes. So you
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Earl, Here is a website selling Paua: (Use the left-right arrows to browse) Rena (I love the Pink Paua Laminate)
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Charlie, If I understand your post correctly, you would be better off by incorporating the belt/pulley reduction using the 8000 RPM, 1/10 hp motor. That would lower the speed and give you much more torque than would be possible with the 5000RPM, 1/15 hp motor. This approach would also give you far more precise foot pedal control of the RPM at the chuck. A 5000RPM, 1/15 hp motor is a really
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Ronnie, Larry only said that he "sealed cork using lacquer" It did not have a painting on it. You should be advised that:: lacquer will raise and bubble almost all types of paint. There is an old painter's saying: "You can put paint over lacquer. but you can not put lacquer over paint. Rena (Pink bubbles rising in the air)
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I am not knowledgeable in the subject matter of this post, but readers should keep in mind that the Italians use string and a slurry of water and sand to cut the giant blocks of marble marble in the marble quarries. Berkley Fire line is fusioned braided line and has a rough outer surface, so it seems to me that it could possibly groove the guides over a period of time. Rena ( I want a P
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I. It is absolutely wrong to believe that Copyrights are granted for Hardware. Copyrights are only granted for Intellectual works and NOT for Hardware items. The following definition is from the U.S. Government Copyright Office at this web address: What Works Are Protected? Copyright protects “original works of authorship” that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. The fi
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Tom is correct. Websters Dictionary defines Impedance as "something that impedes". Take a bare rod blank and hold it by the butt. Then have someone tap the tip lightly and the rod blank will vibrate. Then, keeping everything the same, tape a pack of cigarettes or similar item at the point where the reel seat should be and then have the rod tapped again with the same f
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Go to the photo Board and lookup Tom Kirkman's pictures of his mulit-rod dryer. Rena (Pink Lady)
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