Yep... of course the obvious escaped me (again!)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Preston Singletary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:21 PM Subject: Rod Building: hot glue > One very important reason for wanting to be able to remove a tip guide is > the possibility of wear or some other form of damage. A badly worn or > grooved tip guide can chew up a flyline in no time flat. On a couple of > occasions I've had tip guides that wore much faster than I would have > thought reasonable. One was a rod I'd built myself and the other was one I > had received for a product review. In both cases I opted to replace the tip > myself. Either the old-fashioned melting cements (like Pflueger Bulldog) or > epoxy can be softened with a little heat and the tip easily pulled off. > Just be careful not to use excessive heat which may damage the epoxy resin > in the rod itself. I usually use a loop of string (to avoid burning my > fingers) through the tip guide, and pass the barrel of the tip guide back > and forth quickly over an alcohol lamp while pulling gently on the loop. As > soon as the cement (or epoxy) softens, the tip guide will slide off. > >
