Rod eye repair?
I was using my bait caster when I noticed it started feeling weird for
casting and such. Upon checking it out, it seems the rubber/plastic piece
in the last eye-hole is gone. Can I buy a replacement for this? Is it
necessary? I can't imagine it's a good thing not to have it there. Thanks
in advance.Christopher |
Christopher
Oct 10
2004
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| You can get a tip replacement kit at the sporting goods store, but I'm not
sure of the best way to remove the old one. I've only had to do this kind
of repair on a broken tip. Rich P |
Rich
Oct 10
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| On high quality rods you can usually remove them by heating the metal tube
and pulling the tip off the rod. On many cheap rods the tip of the rod
melts when you try to get metal hot enough to get the tip off hte rod.
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Bob
Oct 10
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| < On high quality rods you can usually remove them by heating the metal tube
and pulling the tip off the rod. On many cheap rods the tip of the rod
melts when you try to get metal hot enough to get the tip off hte rod. > Wouldn't know if you'd call it high quality or not..it's a BPS extreme.
Think it's best if I let my local tackle shop take care of it? I'd rather
not deal with shipping it back to BPS and such as I'm sure this will take
much longer than necessary. Christopher |
Christopher
Oct 10
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| I've changed those... heat will loosen it. |
Charles
Oct 10
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| Only you can answer that. But if I can replace a tip-top, anyone can. Like |
Marty
Oct 11
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| Keeping a rod for a week for a repair that takes about three minutes.... |
Joe
Oct 11
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| I was going to say the same. At Lannes place (Sportsman's Hide-A-Way) Dave
or Lannes usually do it on the spot. Ypu might have to wait a few minutes
if the place is busy.
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Bob
Oct 11
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| Any rod blank will melt if enough heat is applied, it doesn't matter what
the quality of the blank is. The trick is to apply a pulling/twisting
motion as the heat is applied. Then you can be assured that you haven't
heated the tip too much. Chris, the insert in the guide is definitely needed and if you've been
fishing with the insert missing, you'd better check your line to make sure
that it hasn't been chewed up by the damaged tip. You should be able to buy new tips at just about any sporting goods store,
and usually tip replacement can be done while you wait. DON'T fish the rod
until the repair is made. |
Steve
Oct 12
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