Cleaning Rods..HELP!!

How do yall keep off the green scum off yalls rod guiddes? or remove crud from the rod guiddes? :-[
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I was thinking of getting a rainshadow built but for 200 bucks i dont want this to happen..this rod is only about 9 months old and gets fished year round and sprayed off after each use :(

I have never had that problem with any of my older rods, or the ones I built

You think it the cheep guiddes? Is there many that look the same?

The second guide looks like a perfection and they are notorious for failing due to corrosion, and the other looks like a pac-bay, but its corroding like it isn't even stainless steel.

People dont goto ROCKS REEF!! This is what kinda work she does! :spank: Guess i always fing out the hard way :boohoo:

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Dang Wilson, you haven't had that yellow rod long, I remember when you got it; I had about decided to go buy it and you beat me to it.

That sux bro. :guns:

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Rocks Reef did nothing wrong.Your lack of taking care of it is the problem in this case, and no there is no fixing it.It's not right to bash a shop because you failed to rinse it off.And yes they are cheep Pac Bay guides,the same ones all of us are forced to use because there is nothing else.

I spray them off after each use..you sell junk word of mouth goes along WAY :boohoo:

Well ya better get the word out that I sell junk.Oh,I just did.

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Well ya better get the word out that I sell junk.Oh,I just did.
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Nope just over priced.. :P lol if i did not like your store you would not see me 1 time a week in the winter and 3-4 days in the summer :D

I also have sprayed WD-40 on them and let it soak on them.. you think maby the wd might have something todo with it?

WD40 is a water displacement oil. Its actually derived from fish oil. Corrosion is inevitable in a corrosive environment such as salt air. All you can really do is slow the process down.

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WD40 is a water displacement oil. Its actually derived from fish oil. Corrosion is inevitable in a corrosive environment such as salt air. All you can really do is slow the process down.
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Can you powder coat them? would that work better?

I am working on that right now. Have an experiment that might be on Pcola pier soon. Just have to see how well they hold up to powerpro first.

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I am working on that right now. Have an experiment that might be on Pcola pier soon. Just have to see how well they hold up to powerpro first.

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cool..i'll be looking for a rod with them on it

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Wilson, get you a tube of Simichrome Polish, I have used it for years on motorcycles and car wheels. If it won’t clean it, nothing will.
http://www.simichrome-polish.com/

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Wilson, get you a tube of Simichrome Polish, I have used it for years on motorcycles and car wheels. If it won’t clean it, nothing will.
http://www.simichrome-polish.com/

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Damn not bad for 7 bucks

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I've got a little on mine Jeb, but its just the environment. Where it seems to actually have gotten me is in the the underwraps where you attach the guide, little bit of salt just gets in there and thus it rusts. I practically live on the beach too so everything over here just rusts if you don't maintain constant preventive maintenance. I need to start coating all my stuff with corrosion x.

Next to salt,the two worst things for chrome plating are pool chemicals and Chinese sheet rock.Wilson,if ya don't mind spending another $25 or so consider the stainless wire spring guides that the guy in PC makes.

I got one of my ling rods at Rocks Reef years ago, no problems like that .....but then it doesn't see much use either.....very sorry to say....but almost always rinse them good ....before leaving the pier.....heck my stainless ling gaff has a little corrosion on it like that

I've mentioned it before, but I'm a firm believer in Real Magic. I spray the guides...any exposed metal, before a trip and after I get back and some while I'm there. Unfortunately, my dozen or so days a year in salt water environment isn't much of a test group.

If what Fin recommended doesn't work, flitz makes a gun and knife rust removing product that contains both a rust remover and a polisher to use afterwards. It works on both guns and knives, so I don't know why it wouldn't work on guides. It's more expensive than what you've found but it is a good product.

hmmm, I've never had this happen with the pac bay guides, but then again I'm almost borderline OCD when it comes to spraying every inch of my rod and reels with freshwater when I'm done fishing as to prevent this from happening. I have in the past though had guides that oxidized/corrosion(green stuff) no matter what I did to prevent it.

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I've mentioned it before, but I'm a firm believer in Real Magic. I spray the guides...any exposed metal, before a trip and after I get back and some while I'm there. Unfortunately, my dozen or so days a year in salt water environment isn't much of a test group.

If what Fin recommended doesn't work, flitz makes a gun and knife rust removing product that contains both a rust remover and a polisher to use afterwards. It works on both guns and knives, so I don't know why it wouldn't work on guides. It's more expensive than what you've found but it is a good product.


[/quote] Reel magic is good stuff! You ever spray it on fishing line?

Absolutely snake. Line, reels, rods -- it's all good. I really prefer the pump spray bottles to spray on the line, just because I worry about the propellant in the spray cans. But hey, they were making the spray cans for years before the pumps ever came around, so it can't be very hard on it or the product would be gone by now.

thanks for the response Rich. yea I was seeing if anyone else sprays the spool with it. It really helps add longevity to the life of Ande line.

Try barkeeps friend it should help

http://www.autogeek.net/wenol1.html?...FQFY7Aod9QljTg

Original Wenol (red)


check this stuff out

You can use some 00 steel wool to clean the corrosion off those guides. I never have this problem as I wipe my guides off with an oily rag after each trip.

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You can use some 00 steel wool to clean the corrosion off those guides. I never have this problem as I wipe my guides off with an oily rag after each trip.
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Thats a good idea i got lots of oil around lol see ya soon obie

What about Navel Jelly,I used it years ago to remove rust from chrome.

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You can use some 00 steel wool to clean the corrosion off those guides. I never have this problem as I wipe my guides off with an oily rag after each trip.
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That's what I have always done. I clean my rods like I clean my gun...Thouroghly with an oiled rag and after every use.

RainX Wipes every couple trips on the guides and always religiously wash them down and wioe them off. I have always thought these guides were stainless??,

Stainless will still rust

Thanks for the heads up glad I have always been thorough with cleaning rods and reels! :-X

Reel butter / line butter works well.