How many of you guys have chipped or broken the rings in your guides?
Well instead of replacing the entire guide and having to have the wrap matched I have a quick and easy way to fix your guides with out having your favorite rod in the shop for a couple days or more. First off you need to remove the chipped ring inside the guide. You do that by heating it up with a lighter. Angle the flame away from the rod so it is only on the guide.
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Next take a pencil and push the broken ring out. Now you need to go through your collection of broken rods (which I always keep) and find one that has the same size ring. Now you heat up the guide from the broken rod and remove the ring with the pencil.
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Then you clean off all the old glue from the good ring and the empty guide by scraping it off with a knife. Then you put the ring on a pencil and work the ring into the guide until it is straight.
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Don’t force it or you might break the new ring. If needed you can heat up the guide before you work the ring down in. Then take some super glue and run a small bead around the outside edge of the ring.
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If you don’t have broken rods or you cant find the right size guide you can always buy a new guide and remove the ring. It still saves you the cost and time off having a new guide wrapped.
Matt