snapped spiral wrap rod

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Re: snapped spiral wrap rod

Posted by: roger wilson (---.hsd1.mn.comcast.net)

Date: August 14, 2016 04:06PM

Not likely that the guide wrap style or placement had any thing to do with the broken rod.

Much more likely that the rod blank had been damaged in some way between its manufacture and its final demise.

Or, if it had not been used much, there was an outside chance that there was a manufacturing defect in the rod blank.

Before building your rods, do you give the blank a very good stress test which means that you flex the blank to at least 90 degrees to fully test the blank's integrity.

Better to test the blank and break it; if there is a defect before you spend any time building up the rod.

Good luck

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