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Somehow we broke a line guide on my Penn tuna stick this weekend.* I attached a poor pic but you can see the guide is in perfect shape....it just isn't attached to the rod.* I could care less about the cosmetics.....I just want it to work properly.* Can somebody give me some suggestions on how to fix this problem?* Thanks in advance.
Tireless
Since it is an offshore rod there is not a decent quick-fix, the guide needs to be re-wrapped and epoxied.
I charge 15.00 for the repair (includes guide if necessary) and 10.00 for each additional guide on same rod for future reference. (carbides and roller guides are more). Go to www.tackleworks.org and you can probably find someone closer to you. Price may vary, just tried to give you an idea of cost. Capt. Ron
Thanks Ron....I figured the fix wasn't going to be as easy as shoving the pointy ends back into the indents and gluing the hell out of it. I may be sending the rod your way .... I have one shop I need to check out here in ATL. Thanks again.
The old wrapping is cut off with an exacto,peeled off, and steel wool flattens the surface to be re- wrapped. Then cut a couple of narrow pieces of masking tape to reattach the guide in line with the others for rewrapping.
Lay the thread between 2 heavy hardback books to give it tension for wrapping.
Nylon thread is overlapped on itself on the first coule of turns, cutting the tag end, to start the wrap off holding the rod while turning it with your fingers, wrapping towards and up over the foot of the guide until you lack about 10 turns to finish near the eye.
Then you insert a 6šloop of a seperate piece of thread under the line with the tag ends pointing at the the place where you started to wrap, then continue to wrap over the the guide and the loop until you finish where you hold the wrap tight with your fingers, cut the thread to the spool leaving about 1.5" long tag end that tis inserted into the loop.
You now pull the tag ends of the loop together with a jerk so that it and the tag end of the wrap removes itself from under the wrap. Cut the end of the wrap line as close as you can with an exacto knife. A match can be passed under the frayed thread to burn it to a nub.
Using epoxy from the sporting goods store and a 10 cent model airplane paint brush to paint and remove any drips, you twist the rod while applying a fairly thick coat of epoxy leaving the rod horizontal under a desk lamp bulb placed 6" away to heat and dry the epoxy quickly. Use a paper towel to clean the brush and leave it in alchohol so that you can dry it and use it to apply epoxy once again.
I just use one color for this repair, but different colors and layers can be applied to match exactly what the rod came with. Or you can send them in when you have a bunch to do, as the shops are notoriously slow to return rods for minor repairs like this.
I learned to do this when I was 6, so if you have any problems, just give CAC a call for some help.
Geez Bull.... I give you a few compliments for being a great poster at this site and you drop the knowledge bomb on me. You have inspired me to attemp this fix - thanks - I will let you know how successful I am at fixing it and how quickly it will take for me to break it again.
Thanks Bull for the tips. It may be ugly but I think it will hold......or at least until I slam it against something again.
I used a dowel to line up and spot glue the guide.
I employed an expensive rod clamp
I dug out a thread thingee I bought years ago to make sabiki rigs - haven't use this in a long time
I applied some 5 minute epoxy
The repaired guide is the second one .... but I guess that is obvious.
Super job Tireless. Very ingenious. You may have found your calling. Like to talk more, especially about what role the Clorox played, but for a five minute job I am pulling down 180.00/hour. Got to go find it. Capt. Ron
Excellent job Dave. I also like the tools you invented to do this job.
You are now ready to build your own specialty equipment such as a using an ultralight slow taper 8' fly rod blank that can be bent into a U and not break a 1/2 lb test leader.
As a kid, I used such a rod to fish a small resavoir in the center of Los Angeles with great success.
I woud cast out a single salmon egg and leave it on free spool. I then whipped out a plastic straw to blow gun salmon eggs at any angler that tried to move into my spot, while also blow gunning more eggs to the same area where I previously casted to chum them in.
These guy would be be shoulder to shoulder out there so the fish were more than a little line shy, but the ultra light leader did the trick everytime, and inspired me to be a smart ass when I was still young enough to get away with it.
Thanks y'all for complimenting what is a very ugly rod guide. I should have put more epoxy on it but this was my first time and I was simply happy I got uniform coverage. I didn't even think about adding red accent stripes to match the other guides - if you know me you know I really don't care what something looks like, just as long as it works. Thanks again for the tip Bull.
Need to fix a line guide on my fishing rod. 
Wow~ that was a great description but it sure took me longer than 5 min. to READ IT! Ha~!
