On zaterdag, okt 4, 2003, at 14:51 Europe/Amsterdam, Mark Wendt ((Contractor)) wrote:
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Larry,
Almost, but not exactly. If you happen to see an old bamboo rod that was made before the days of heat treating, they used intermediate wraps to "stiffen" the rod. You would see, about every inch or so the length of the rod, a short, maybe 5 turn wrap. One fella in Australia I know, was restoring one of these old rods, and for grins and giggles, he left the intermediate wraps off. Said the rod cast like a wet noodle. Put the new intermediate wraps on, went back out and cast, and the rod was back to it's old, crisp action. Whether the crispness returned because of an increase in cross section at the point of the wrap, or some other PFM, I'll leave that up to the engineers to discuss... :^}
'sFar's I know, back in those days, intermediate wraps were there to keep the sections together, since the shear strength of the glues used was next to nothing, compared to current glues. It just might be that without the wraps, such rods experience some slip between the sections while casting, dissipating a lot of energy that should end up in the line?
henk
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