How To Remove and Replace Rod Guides Mud Hole Blog
My Dad would have used cellulose nitrate dope which is pretty much the same thing. Using your cutting tool of choice, cut away the epoxy and binding holding the old support to the rod, a little twist and it’s off. Steps 1 through 7 will wrap a single foot guide, but simply repeat the process if you are wrapping a guide with a double foot. To help keep the wraps tight, use the burnishing tool to fix any mistakes and cut down any extra space between wraps. Execute roughly eight wraps then stop and trim the remaining length of the tag end off as close to the wrap as possible. Continue wrapping, but keep monitoring each wrap so that they are tightly seated next to the previous wrap.
Work quickly with the epoxy since it will quickly start to dry and harden once you mix it. You can also measure the diameter of the rod on both of the broken ends if you don’t have a flexible measuring tape. If you are adding a second color of trim thread, repeat the entire wrapping process, working in the opposite direction. Insert the tag end of your thread through the loop of the quick-pull . Gently pull the quick-pull out, bringing the tag end of your thread under the last few turns you made .
With the epoxy finish on the new guide wrap, place your fishing rod in a rod dryer and leave it rotating for the suggested curing time. Prepping your new guide is a must before it comes to time to attach it permanently. Properly prepping the new guide by grinding down the guide foot with a small file is important to the wrapping process. Take the time to file down the guide foot to a point before attaching it to the blank. This ensures a smooth transition once you start wrapping thread from the blank up onto the guide foot. Finally, with the broken guide and leftover finish removed, use the china marker to put a dash where the replacement guide will attach.
Next, the guide should just fall off after the razor blade severs the finish over the guide foot, but if the guide remains, take the pliers and pull that broken guide straight off the blank. It is important to pull the guide straight up and away from the blank rather than at an angle, which could cause the sharp guide foot to drag over the rod blank. Choose a durable piece of round rod that will fit snuggly in to both ends of the broken portions of the fishing rod. This piece should be long enough to get a least one inch into both ends of your broken fishing rod. For the example, I used a small finishing nail by trimming off the head and sanding the ends smooth. Heat the tip top of your fishing rod with a lighter to loosen the adhesive.
Inch (1.3–1.9 cm) from the guide’s foot on the side closest to the handle. Maintain tension on the loop and start tightly winding the thread around the rod. Make sure the thread doesn’t overlap with loops you’ve already made and that they are flush with one another. If the pole doesn’t fit snugly inside the fishing rod, then wrap the pole with duct or masking tape to make it thicker. Use a flexible tape measure and wrap it around the broken end of your fishing rod. Then measure the circumference on the other piece of your fishing rod to see if it’s skinnier.
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