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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: Rich_S on May 04, 2014, 03:32:04 PM

Title: What is this? (pictures)
Post by: Rich_S on May 04, 2014, 03:32:04 PM: I bought a box of reloading stuff (plus some other odds & ends) at a garage sale today. This was in there and I have no idea what it might be. Anybody got a clue? I't's about 7 inches long and made from 1/4" rod. The two plastic thingies are springs and set screws. It looks like you put something between them and add a little spring pressure to keep it from spinning freely. Perhaps something to wind line from a spool to a reel?

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Title: Re: What is this? (pictures)
Post by: Wazukie on May 04, 2014, 03:43:16 PM: Maybe for holding a spool of fishing line while spooling your reel?

Sent from the woods
Title: Re: What is this? (pictures)
Post by: Rick on May 04, 2014, 03:50:45 PM: Quote from: Wazukie on May 04, 2014, 03:43:16 PM
Maybe for holding a spool of fishing line while spooling your reel?

Sent from the woods

Yep,from one of these.

http://www.amazon.com/Berkley-Portable-Line-Spooling-Station/dp/B000E7SZ42/ref=pd_sim_sg_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=007WNM040PXNYEB60ASJ (http://www.amazon.com/Berkley-Portable-Line-Spooling-Station/dp/B000E7SZ42/ref=pd_sim_sg_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=007WNM040PXNYEB60ASJ)
Title: Re: What is this? (pictures)
Post by: Rich_S on May 04, 2014, 04:18:58 PM: Aha! I thought it might be something like that. I can just hold it in my vise and leave the reel on the bottom section of rod and wind away. About time I replaced the line on my trout rods anyway. The stuff that's been on there for five years looks like red raspberry vine twisters - only without the red.

Thank you, Rick and Wazuki.
Title: Re: What is this? (pictures)
Post by: luteai on May 06, 2014, 10:36:19 PM: So if not fished for 10+ years and stored in the trunk of my car should I be replacing fishing line? :rolleyes:
Title: Re: What is this? (pictures)
Post by: AWS on May 07, 2014, 09:33:20 AM: I suspect it is not a fishing line holder but a thread holder for winding thread on fishing rods to hold on guides and decoration.

When loading ling on a spinning real you want to have the line coming off the side of the spool matching the rotation of the bail on the real or you will put a significant twist into the line on the real.
Title: Re: What is this? (pictures)
Post by: Fishnclifff on May 07, 2014, 07:15:58 PM: Quote from: luteai on May 06, 2014, 10:36:19 PM
So if not fished for 10+ years and stored in the trunk of my car should I be replacing fishing line? :rolleyes:

The sooner the better
Title: Re: What is this? (pictures)
Post by: Bofire on May 07, 2014, 08:03:47 PM: :) AWS nailed it