A money and time saving tip for almost everybody

[Mattlures]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]How many of you guys have chipped or broken the rings in your guides?[/size][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Well instead of replacing the entire guide and having to have the wrap matched I have a quick and easy way to fix your guides with out having your favorite rod in the shop for a couple days or more. First off you need to remove the chipped ring inside the guide. You do that by heating it up with a lighter. Angle the flame away from the rod so it is only on the guide.[/size][/font]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"] Next take a pencil and push the broken ring out. Now you need to go through your collection of broken rods (which I always keep) and find one that has the same size ring. Now you heat up the guide from the broken rod and remove the ring with the pencil.[/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"] Then you clean off all the old glue from the good ring and the empty guide by scraping it off with a knife. Then you put the ring on a pencil and work the ring into the guide until it is straight.[/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"] Don’t force it or you might break the new ring. If needed you can heat up the guide before you work the ring down in. Then take some super glue and run a small bead around the outside edge of the ring.[/font][/size]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]If you don’t have broken rods or you cant find the right size guide you can always buy a new guide and remove the ring. It still saves you the cost and time off having a new guide wrapped.[/size][/font]
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[fish4fish]

Hey thanks for the tip, it will come in handy
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[Tarpon4me]

Hey, that's a pretty pimp Idea. Unless it was one of my heavy class rods, i'd just get ghetto on it and break the whole damn eye off. I guess I could try that next time. I loose a guide about every couple months or so on one of my rods. Alot of times it's the rod tip, I haven't figured that one out yet. LOL When I loose a tip, I replace it with a stainless steel tip and it's a permanent fix. I don't like SS eyes, but it's awesome for the tip. Alot of times those rings just pop off, not just break. I usually get some apoxy an put a small drop on the outside of both sides. Not all the way around, just a couple small drops on each side. That'll keep them from popping off, and you can still do Matt's little trick with minimal complications.
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[buzznfrog]

Hey that's a great idea, it will come in handy[]
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