> On 15 apr. 2015, at 15:14, Jack Harford <jharford.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This bottle of Gudebrod glass rod varnish came with an old Orvis fly rod > building kit I picked up at our club auction last year. I have not used it > before and found minimal info on the net. > > Has anyone used this and what are the pros and cons. >
Yes, I used this stuff, way back when. It’s basically a spar varnish. Gudebrod have stopped ‘making’ (relabelling/marketing) this stuff years ago, and the label design is, AFAIR, from the eighties. > Also would the number stamped on the front, looks like 9-85 be an expire date > or manufacturing date. > Since it doesn’t say anything specific, I would guess it’s a manufacturing/filling date. Expiry would most likely be somewhere in ’87. I doubt this stuff is still usable - I certainly wouldn’t use it. > The rod kit is from the 80s I think, the old PM 10 early graphite. > > Any info is appreciated. I am just about out of flexcoat and thinking about > trying this rod varnish on my wraps. > Don’t. If you want to substitute something simple for flexcoat (and better BTW, flexcoat is basically just a commercial builders shortcut to building up a coat with multiple layers), use a classic spar varnish. One or two coats will not give you a ‘beautiful’ wrap finish, but it will be entirely functional - the main function of a coat being to ‘bond’ the threads together to create a firm/solid anchor for the guide feet. =============================== ><(((((º> =============================== | Dr. Henk J.M. Verhaar | e-mail: h...@stichtsend.xs4all.nl | | Ecotoxicoloog en vliegbinder | tel: | | Bonte Kraailaan 22 | mobiel: 06 38 279016 | | NL-1343 AJ Almere | web: www.xs4all.nl/~flyrod | =============================== <º)))))>< =============================== -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
