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Posts: 443 Location: Indiana | I wanted to try balancing my rods, but found that the ones from BPS did not fit over my fat cork grips. Then I wanted to balance the rods without altering how they were built. I did it two different ways and both worked well. I had an epiphany. I have a lot of lead sinkers and solder lying around, could I use that? Yes! For a shorter rod that needed less weight, I put some large heat shrink tubing over the rear few inches of cork. Then I wrapped solder around the rod until balanced. Put another piece of heat shrink over it and done. For a longer rod that needed a lot of weight, I tried the same thing, but it looked bad. So I got out the drill bits and drilled a hole in a 4X4 the diameter of the cork. Melted the amount of lead needed to balance the rod and poured it into the hole. Let it set up, put a dab of hot glue on the lead slug and stuck it to the but of the rod. Heat shrink tube over that and done. I think they look pretty darn good. Attachments ----------------  IMG_1869.JPG (52KB - 203 downloads) IMG_1870.JPG (22KB - 177 downloads) | ||
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Posts: 443 Location: Indiana | |||
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Posts: 1887 Location: syracuse indiana | |||
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