Repairing the barrel
will happen at all to break a spinning rod, the next step is to buy another as soon as possible, but there are the remains of our faithful companion fishing for which we were very fond, and then try to repair it. Generally
is to break the piece of the tip, and if the fracture is clear, the repair does not present great difficulties.
start by trimming the edges, helping to cut cake with a file and sandpaper, then we need to create an inner core having the same conicity of our tip, and we can extract from a piece of old fiberglass rod that is inserted into
piece of larger diameter will tend to get stuck until at least 5 cm protruding. This piece will enter the smaller diameter in a precise enough. Cut any excess, and let's put aside, because you have to prepare the external brace, which is made from a can of coke, which is unlike many cans of steel instead of aluminum. Cut with scissors a rectangle about 5x5 cm wound around the tip so as to have a kind of tube that is open, come on try, cutting the surplus so that the edges overlap slightly.
also prepare ourselves for a rubber band which will cut the tie safe. It 'important to have everything you need on hand before you paste.
now training a little bit of resin, and smeared the spigot inseriamolo, spread the protruding part and insert the tip, spread throughout the junta for the length of the tube, slide the tube in place and tie tightly with the elastic knotting the end, and let dry everything. Spend at least a couple of hours, remove the rubber band, and accurately rifinamo Moreover, with the usual file to smooth the edges and the overlapping of the foil. If we did a good job, the barrel will up straight.
is not now cover the whole with a better binding, which is then coated with another resin, that will dry into the piece in hand and turning because the resin does not leak.