How to remove a reel seat?

[Jado78]

G'day guys. I have a broken cork fore grip on the reel seat of my rack raider. Now I have 0 experience with rod building, and was wondering how I would go about removing the old reel seat? :-/

I would like to use an identical reel seat but with a camo eva for somthing a bit different. Can anybody recommend a place to purchase this equipment?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers, Jado

[Luc]

Personally, I'd leave the reel seat alone. I would remove all the runners trim the cork away, fit the eva and then rebind all the runners.

If you're not confident doing that, I'd recommend you take the rod to your local tackle shop as they usually have contacts for repair rods.

Luc

[rhycebullimore]

possibly that way but its not how i would do it and i build rods. There is only one way to remove a reel seat...starts with hack and ends with saw, unfortunatly. cut through but be careful not to cut blank. remover old grips and trim/sand remaining hard epoxie. order/find/make new grips to suit, put on foregrip tape blank epoxie sliderear grip up to where it should be twist a few times, align with guid and sit in a rod rack to dry.

local tackle shpop, not bcf etc should be able to help you out with a fugi catlouge if they don't carry the gear on hand, failing that mudhole.com is a great site for some really wild products.

cheers rhyce

[Rodman]

possibly that way but its not how i would do it and i build rods. There is only one way to remove a reel seat...starts with hack and ends with saw, unfortunatly. cut through but be careful not to cut blank. remover old grips and trim/sand remaining hard epoxie. order/find/make new grips to suit, put on foregrip tape blank epoxie sliderear grip up to where it should be twist a few times, align with guid and sit in a rod rack to dry.

local tackle shpop, not bcf etc should be able to help you out with a fugi catlouge if they don't carry the gear on hand, failing that mudhole.com is a great site for some really wild products.

cheers rhyce

Mate I agree with Rhyce that is the only way to do it
If you remove the eyelets/runners just be carefull as you an remove then withoutamaging the underbind and any gold/silver etc decoration of the binding.
I run a small business specialising in rod and reel repair.
PM me if I can be of further saaistance

Ken

[Jado78]

Thanks Rhyce and Ken, it doesnt sound quite as easy as I had thought but I will give it a go anyway.

Cheers, Jade

[Mark Fisher]

Jade,

Just my two bob's worth, if you use a dremel tool with a cutting head, cut the reel seat in 4 lenth wise cuts JUST THROUGH THE SEAT ITSELF. Then, using a screwdriver or similar gently prise off each of the four sections. You will also have to clean up the remaining epoxy and cork from the blank. It doesn't have to be perfect because it will becovered by the new seat. and grips. Take measurements of the positions of all your guides, the seat and the grips. This makes things a little easier when you put the rod back together.

Remember, work slowly, don't rush and have some patience. You may find you enjoy it.


Regards
Mark

[Jado78]

Jade,

Just my two bob's worth, if you use a dremel tool with a cutting head, cut the reel seat in 4 lenth wise cuts JUST THROUGH THE SEAT ITSELF. Then, using a screwdriver or similar gently prise off each of the four sections. You will also have to clean up the remaining epoxy and cork from the blank. It doesn't have to be perfect because it will becovered by the new seat. and grips. Take measurements of the positions of all your guides, the seat and the grips. This makes things a little easier when you put the rod back together.

Remember, work slowly, don't rush and have some patience. You may find you enjoy it.


Regards
Mark

Great, Thanks for the advice Mark.

Cheers, Jado

[HOTRODS]

pretty much covered with all the responses...

2 ways id go about it... firstly the real seat is fine it just needs a new hood grip, so id strip the guides, fit a new grip and rebind. this would give you the oppertunity to fit a camo EVA grip.

2nd option is if you want como all the way (rear and foregrip ) the leave the guides and remove the seat as prev. mentioned..
unscrew the foregrip and tape it off up the blank. i use a cheep serrated kitchen knife to remove the bulk of the cork then i use a dremil with the fibre re enforced cut of wheel and slowly cut along the seat on both sides and pop it off with a flat screwdriver (again as prev. mentioned) then its a matter of removing the packign material (masking tape) and chipping of the glue and getting the blank back to a smooth surface.
if you want to go camo then you will hev to organize to purchase a set containing the VSS-KN seat and hood and a set of grips (full rear and hood EVA) this can be fitted with a bit of playing from the butt end.
without any building experiance yourself i would STRONGLY reccomment that you get a builder to do this as even though the kits / components are pre shapped and redy to fit it is a very fidley excersize..
not impossible though.

[GBC]

Jado,
my rack raider did exactly the same thing

I cleaned up the break a bit and araldited the cork back together - works fine.

[Lovey80]

My rack raider did the same thing too. I did the same thing as GBC and it hasn't broken since and i have had some cracker fish on it since.

Cheers

Chris