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Posts: 865
| Have a strange question, last year two of my rods had the inserts pop out of my St Croix rod eyes. Now again this year I just realized that another rod is missing an insert.......... My question is can inserts for the eyes be purchased and inserted? or do I have to replace the eyes again ? These are all my St. Croix Premium Rods Thanks Mike Sr. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | New guide will be needed. The inserts are molded into the guide. St. Croix has a great warranty program. They will take care of you. |
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Location: South-Central PA | It would be much cheaper to find a custom builder in your area and have them replaced. The shipping will kill you if all you need is an eye replaced and you send it back to St. Croix. It should cost you about $10 per guide to have them done by a builder.
Have you been able to pinpoint what's causing the inserts to pop out? Are you storing them in a rod locker on a boat? The most common culprit I've seen is accidentally bending a guide and then having the insert pop out when the guide is bent back into position due to the torque on the guide frame. At any rate, it's not a big deal and it's a very simple fix for a builder.
jeremy |
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Location: Hayward WI | Shipping a rod back to St Croix costs $10 with FedEx, you can buy the shipping label off the St Croix website, print it off paste it on the tube and bring it to any Fed Ex drop site, I did this last week.
http://www.stcroixrods.com/shop/catalog/Warranty_Returns-11-1.html#
Agreed though that for the cost a local fix may be cheaper. |
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Posts: 210
Location: VA | Guide rings are held in with CA. The entire guide needs replaced to be done correctly. you can replace the ring and super glue (CA) it back in but most done this way do not last. 50/50 shot. I'd replace the guide.
I've shiped a lot of rods by every shipper out there and never once was it $10.00 unless it was a 2 piece rod.
Average ship cost ranges from
$15-40 depending on: where it's going, length, weight and girth
Just me.
DR |
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Posts: 944
| Thats why I sold all my St. Croix. got sick of having to replace guides all the time.
I switched to Musky Innovations Pro Series rods 3 years ago and have yet to have one crack chip or fall out
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com |
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Posts: 210
Location: VA | Jeff,
I seen a pretty good run of SC's that had guide ring failures. Most all of them were SCII blanks (premere).
DR |
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Posts: 143
Location: Lake of The Woods | I have mentioned this before in other posts, the premier guide inserts seem to pop out. This does not happen on the Legend tournament line up which i love. I dont know why they havent addressed this problem? With some of the new Croix line ups being priced so close to the premier, i wonder how much longer they will use it??? |
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Location: VA | Ryan,
Hard to say. StCroix is a quality company, always have been. They do not make the guides, they are outsourced. My guess is the "bad" run may have been a batch made overseas and likely bought by the thousands per size.
Lets hope the past is just that, past.
DR |
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Posts: 463
Location: Sw Pennsylvania | Glad this post came up this weekend. I had an eyelet break this weekend on premier just moving the rod around the shed. I have st croix avid walleye rod that has a smashed tip also. |
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Posts: 322
| Yep I have had the same problem before on an 8 foot premier. Two line guides down from the tip of the rod is where it came out. The rod was only a week old. But Dan from the service department took care of me. He actually gave me free shipping one way. I swapped it out for a Legend Slingblade anyways. But yeah seems to be an issue they should resolve. By the way if you go on the St Croix website you can buy a discounted fedex shipping label for $10. You could send st croix 10 rods in a tube if you wanted to. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I bet SC will get this handled, if they haven't already. Good, solid company with an excellent customer service record. |
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