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rod guide clicking/crunching question

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ChasingTales

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Ok I built on an 8 foot lami honey for a kayak rod cut a little from the tip and a little from the butt to get the action I was looking for. Now after its all built looks good and feels good but if you shake it or cast you can hear clicking. If you hold where you think its at and shake I moves up the blank. If you grab a guide and push it back and forth you can get the clicking sound which is more like a crunchy sound.could it be I didnt wrap it tight enough? I dont see the guides moving thou when pushed on

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Chasing Tales

 

It's probably the liner in the guide moving against the guide frame when you flex the rod. Running some thin epoxy between the liner and the guide frame should fix it or you could just ignore it!

 

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Tim

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Same thing happened to one of my builds on a real noodle of a blank (I forget the model). It was several of the guides giving a squeaking clicking type noise, after half a season it went away. I just chalked it up to being a by product of the blank being so floppy and the epoxy slightly separated from it. They weren't under wrapped.

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It happen to me too, and i have talk to other builder and they said it the guide feet moving when the rods is flexing, they said it will go away in time. But i don' t like it so i found a way to fix it. The way to fix it is after you put on your guide, put on your reel and run your line though all the guide. Then tie your line to something and pull up a couple of time then turn your rods so the your reel is facing up and pull couple time. Also do it on the left and right side of the rods too. By doing that your guide will move to it relax position and it wont move when you epoxy it. Oh i almost forgot, rechecks you wraps cuz it will move some and you need to reburnish it.

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