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10-01-2012, 06:19 PM
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Re: Broken Guides! @#$%^!
The reason why is because they are using BULLSHIT PacBay guides to buid these rods.
Alconites are the only guides I build with and I never break them and they last years. Sure you can use Hardloy but they weigh to heavy and look awful... Thats just my .02 
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10-03-2012, 10:21 AM
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Re: Broken Guides! @#$%^!
Broken guides/we fix them!!!!
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10-03-2012, 05:37 PM
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Re: Broken Guides! @#$%^!
Last winter I bought a super cheap surf rod reel combo at a show because I knew I would be camping on the beach in Delaware in August.
Come August in Delaware, I pull the rod out of the camper and find the insert in the first guide is missing, no where to be found. I fished with it anyway because all we caught were croakers that didn't bend the rod. When I got home I bought the closest looking 40 mm guide I could find on ebay, $3.99 including shipping from Shanghai. Three weeks later it arrived. I cut the metal ring with a dremel hoping to salvage the ceramic ring and bing it popped right out. It is press fit, only held by friction. Is this how they are all made. I was amazed. Looking at my $20 rods and my $200 rods, the guides are all made the same except for my fish poison rod. With a little grinding with the dremel I got the ring to fit and epoxied in place. Fixed my $20 rod for $4 and an hours work. Hope I get to use it again someday.
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Poppa Kurtis Last edited by kurtisb; 10-03-2012 at 08:45 PM..
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