Tony Monticelli

LOL who me.. no way!!! i would have never found that, my spell check would have been broken forever.

there ton of info saying dont leave them for long periods of time in your car durring the summer out there.. people hang fiberglass rods in atticks to make em strait again that has to soften something up in the blanks or in a car a fiberglass rod bent the heat in the car will cause it to stay bent i mean the heat softenend something in the blank.. there info out there saying dont leave them near a boiler or furnace etc... i mean non of these place get over 200.. why does a bent rod in a hot car finish lunch you go out there and the tips snapped off, i mean really would it have done damage to the blanks integrity without it being bent. softened something up enofe to break it or cause it to stay bent, for some reason this doesn't sound good for the rod/blank the rods/blanks are made and all bonded with epoxy resin etc.. i mean really how could i sit here and say oh they will be fine..

ok simple.. i just called batson and talked to a tech.. its not somewhere he would leave his rods and asked me why am i leaving my rods there. the tech said more or less.... there no set temps at where the rod will degrade, they will vary depending on the resins content and construction etc... but heat will start to soften and loosen the resins and cause them to weaken move etc etc etc.. how long and how much heat he couldn't answer just said "hopefully" for this case that it doesn't stay warm/hot long enough in there to cause any damage to the blanks... i got from him if you don't have a choice and have to leave them somewhere like that, putting them in an sock insulated box or etc would be a good idea and that should help protect them a little more from the higher mid day temps and they should be ok but in general there was no guarantee to that and basically went back to say he would not leave his rods there he would not leave his gun there and his rods cost just as much as his guns so to sum it up its not worth the risk.. i can call st.croix next and lamiglass and etc if you want but im done, good luck testing those rod builders theory's out.. you calln me a donkey and calling me out, did i post something bad or wrong... sorry to have a different option than your rod builder buddy.. i agree to disagree and don't see anything wrong with my opinion... sorry to care about as to why someone would leave there rod in a place like that and make a post as to it being a place that could damage there rods. as for calling me out me and saying there right and im wrong well hopefully they are right considering but if there not i hope the rods do get damaged and there reputation goes down the drain.

there not my rods sitting in a hot storage unit all summer and i didn't pay for them or have to warranty them, so everyone can take your advise for all i care.

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you posting on here from a phone, your nuts.. id end up throwing my phone into a wall if i tried that LOL

dirty bubble LOL

try toolsthenoptionsthenadvanceandthenseeifthecheckspellasyoutypeboxischecked?

i moved up to dink!!!!!!!! i was wonder how long id be a minnow for..

sometimes it got so bad that i couldn't even understand what i wrote so you know they read it maybe a couple dozen times to siphon my devinchi code insults in order to respond LOL

LOL it not funny though LOL.... i was ounce scared of them, and then i said you know what Im never using a spell check again and since then they fear me cuz it only gets worse LOL

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heat will most defiantly damage the integrity of them rods/blanks.

yea you can do that quick i would think if the gas went bad? would the marine formula sta-bil prevent all that? just asking cuz i use it in all the 4wheelers and snowmobiles... from my experience it been an engine and carb saver year after year.. fill the tanks up.... add the sta-bil... run it for a few mins and then shut it down close the fuel line and a year later that gas has been as good as it was the day it was filled.. before when we didn't use it... year after year if it wasn't one problem it was another,, all having to do with the fuel going bad. i been using that stuff in everything snow blowers, lawnmower etc etc etc... no problems in anything since i started... before using it my word that snow blower every year the carb would be clogged and since i started useing that stuff not ounce have i need to clean out the carbs or etc and man has it been nice to see the snow blower start on the first couple pulls after hibernation..

going to have to wait for a good day but i guess thats the best way to find out. still looking at either having to re-do the whole seats and everything or cheap out patch up and use... the middle seat is the worse the rear and the front is still solid.. yet i drilled a hole in em all for a peak and i seem to cant find foam in them, just the middle one has a small chunk o foam in there in there ..

that's a good idea..

yea the stuff that in there looks beat up.. i only got a peak in threw a little finger size hole.. the inner plywood frame is all water logged and peeling apart and the foam i saw looks like a mouse ate the out of it..

thats the exact one i found when i searched.. thats what gave me the idea... i was like i can just cut a hole or two pour it in and then patch it back up but now getting a sneak peek at the plywood frame all rotting in there it seems like a waist to go pouring that stuff in there without cutting it out and re-doing it all... the foam seems to be the most expensive part of it all.

right now it probably wouldn't, looks like there is enough foam in there to float it when filled.. but as for the integrty of the frame of the benches seem a little ehhh now, granted ehh means i can still probally sit on em for 5 years till i have to do something about it.. so more or less i got time to use it and think about it..

id say nothing, Im just thinking worst case scenario.. some reason or another it takes on water, flips over.. etc.. just the last thing i want is to see a bill on what it would cost to hall it off the bottom of a lake.

ok on a better look, there is some foam in there...lol looks like its seen better days though.. the things are plywood coated in fiberglass and the plywood of course is rotted only thing holdn the bench together is the fiberglass

just picked up a small 12' fiberglass fishing boat, nothing special. anyway the body is good etc problem is the benches etc are closed solid with no foam, my guess is air is suppose to keep it from sinking to the bottom of the lake. they have holes in them so even though it will probably float the boat. it going to at some point sink.. i mean the guys drilled seats on top on the benches and everything id probably give it 10 min till the air is gone and boat is down. i first wanted to cut em all open and make those fancy storage and etc that you see allot of people do... allot of times you don't see them add anything to float the boat if it was to fill, never mind float all the plywood and etc the stuff in them.. so as i was playing around cleaning it watching the benches leak like a siv and i more or less hit a wall when i tough whats going to keep this from hitting the bottom of the lake. and its going to be registered to me so if that was to happen pretending it didn't would only last till someone finds it.. so i take it the idea of turning them all into storage is bust.. but now my question is is it worth paying for and getting that pour in foam and filling all the benches with that.. that will run me $100 est for 10 cu feet and that will give me a 600lbs float ratio and that will float it.. boat est 100 plus electric motor etc everything in the boat that will stay in the boat if it sinking will total maybe 400 tops or next option is save the money and patch it up and let air float the thing and that im thinking is allot better than the foam? but also thinking the foam is more or less going to stay there and you wont have to worry about hole and air leaking out of all the benches someday? i dunno maybe thinking to much into it.. but more or less im going to do 1 or the other patch em and leave it be or foam em.. any ideas or suggestions on how to keep this off the bottom of the lake.. other options or which of the 2 options i thought of are better. pros cons etc...