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Location: Waukee, IA | I had a mouse chew a sizable chunk out of the fore grip of my TI XXH rod over winter. It left an area the size of a nickel and about 3/4 the thickness of the cork chewed and rough. What could I fill this hole with? I plan on just using handle wrap after I get the hole filled, but need something to fill the space. What have you guys used in the past? |
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| Try Elmer's wood filler in golden oak color. |
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| I wood email James at tackle industries. He usually does everything and anything possible two take care of his customers. He mite have some ideas. |
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| You can fix this with a wine cork, a bastard file, sandpaper, glue and some patience.
1. Clean the area with some soap and a toothbrush, allow to dry
2. take the file to the wine cork and grind it into bits
3. Apply a thin coat of contact cement or wood glue to the hole
4. Pack hole with cork fragments
5. allow to dry
6. repeat from step 3 as necessary
When you have the area built back up (higher than the rest of the handle) you can file and then sand it back into shape. Works great. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | wisskie - 4/20/2016 9:38 AM
I wood email James at tackle industries. He usually does everything and anything possible two take care of his customers. He mite have some ideas.
I'm already happy with his customer service, I can't ask him to replace a handle that was 100% my fault for leaving in the garage. |
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| I'm telling you, Elmer's wood filler in golden oak color. Matches the color and fell of the cork so well you wont have to wrap it. You can find it in most hardware stores for less than $4.00. Fill the hole, let it dry then sand flush, money! |
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Location: Waukee, IA | Does the Elmer's filler stay put? It's a sizable hole and it's on my big rubber rod so I don't want the patch falling out due to the constant abuse of ripping bulldawgs. |
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Location: Western U.P. | The wood filler or replacing the cork options mentioned above would be your fastest/easiest/least expensive options, and both would hold up to abuse. You wouldn't see the repair under the handle wrap or shrink tube. |
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| Yeah it adheres to the cork well, I've filled in small smooth dents in cork and its stayed put. You should have no problem having it adhere to the ruff bite marks in the cork. Also you can use it to fill in small cracks in the cork that accumulate over time. Give your handle a light sand with some 400 grit sand paper and you'll have a handle that looks like new. For the big hole I recommend using like 80 grit to initially remove the extra. |
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| Anyone ever try the same techniques on one of those black foam handles? I have some panfish rods this happened on and was trying to think of something black I could stick in there that would work the same way as described above - I thought about electrical tape but that won't work do to the chunks missing. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | I'll try the Elmer's after work today |
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Location: Hayward, WI | The Elmers Golden Oak does match the cork well. I've only used it to fill small pits in the cork in though. Never anything of the depth you're talking about. I'm not sure how well it would hold up to fill such a large area, but you could certainly try it.
If you want to keep the look, you could try filling with Golden Oak and then sanding smooth. If it eventually chunks out, I'd remove the golden oak filler and just fill the hole up with 2 part epoxy, then wrap the handle like you were thinking with your original idea.
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| mountainmuskies - 4/20/2016 11:15 AM
Anyone ever try the same techniques on one of those black foam handles? I have some panfish rods this happened on and was trying to think of something black I could stick in there that would work the same way as described above - I thought about electrical tape but that won't work do to the chunks missing.
There is some stuff called plastidip you could try. It's the stuff you coat tool handles with. Probably won't fell the same as the foam but it would fill the hole. You can get it in liquid or in a spray. You might try filling the hole with the liquid then spraying the entire handle with the spray. Never tried it on foam handle before works good on cork thou. |
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| Mudhole tackle has everything for repairing cork. |
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Handle/cork repair