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Location: Corning, Iowa | I know I've seen it before, but, can't find it, what you use to clean the cork handles? Thanks Doug |
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| you can use a little bit of acetone. |
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| I've cleaned some in the past with just a mild soap and water solution. They don't look like new but it sure gets a lot of grunge off. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | A kitchen scrubbie and some soap will clean them up nicely. |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | Dawn dish soap and a soft scrub brush, then wipe clean with a throw away towel |
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Location: midwest | Scotch brite pad and a little water should do the trick. |
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| sandpaper lightly, will make it look like new |
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| what are you "cleaning off" of the cork handles?
I am little confused.... |
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| dirt |
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| Dish soap and water if not that bad, or fine sand paper if really bad. |
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| Personally I think the dirt and grime on my rods are like battle scars and I would not remove them but to each there own. |
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Location: Detroint Lakes, MN |
Simply Green works great, and doesn't dry out the cork.
Cork needs to breathe or it breaks down faster, and crumbles easier.
Cleaning the grease and dirt from your hands off of it yearly will make it last much longer, and feel better over the years. |
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| When it does start to crumble, which it will:
1. Buy a bottle of contact cement
2. Buy a bottle of wine
3. Open the bottle of wine
4. Pour a glass
5. Clean your rod cork as described above
6. While the rod cork is drying, take a file to the wine bottle cork (the dry end dummy)
7. Drink some more wine
8. Set powdered/ground up cork aside
9. more wine
10. Take the contact cement and coat the holes in your rod cork
11. press the powdered cork into the holes
12. more wine
13. repeat steps 10 - 11 until the cork/glue is built up past the diameter of the handle
14. more wine
15. allow the cork (and yourself) to dry out overnight
16. sand/file smooth
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Location: Ogden, Ut | esoxaddict - 9/9/2008 1:13 PM
When it does start to crumble, which it will:
1. Buy a bottle of contact cement
2. Buy a bottle of wine
3. Open the bottle of wine
4. Pour a glass
5. Clean your rod cork as described above
6. While the rod cork is drying, take a file to the wine bottle cork (the dry end dummy)
7. Drink some more wine
8. Set powdered/ground up cork aside
9. more wine
10. Take the contact cement and coat the holes in your rod cork
11. press the powdered cork into the holes
12. more wine
13. repeat steps 10 - 11 until the cork/glue is built up past the diameter of the handle
14. more wine
15. allow the cork (and yourself) to dry out overnight
16. sand/file smooth
Cork in a wine bottle? Who ever heard of such a thing...How do you do this with the fancy screw top ones? Don't those metal shavings hurt after a while?
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| I like to leave 'em dirty. They look mean that way |
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| Where is the cork located on a box of wine?
Seriously it's getting harder to find wine with real cork anymore as they are all switching to synthetic cork for wine. |
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| Seriously it's getting harder to find wine with real cork anymore as they are all switching to synthetic cork for wine.
because cork is starting to get expensive!
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| what's with all the mamby pamby wine drinkers out here? |
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| Well Luke...
Once you reach a certain level of sophistication and maturity in your life, and a certain level of cultural refinement, your palate tends to
Aw who am I kidding? I drink wine because it's the only way to get free cork to fix your rod grips! |
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| Luke, You bet those of us who drink all that expensive wine in a box are just to good for people like you. SOmetimes I even go for the good stuff MadDog20/20 but I can't afford to drink that good of stuff all the time! Other times I just don't care what anybody else thinks and I will drink my Crown Royal, there's no cork to fix rod hadles on Crown but they do come with some nice purple bags that work great for putting reels in! |
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Location: Davenport, IA | Nothing is easier, faster or does a better job than Mr. Clean's magic eraser IME. I have used soap and rubbing alcohol in the past with moderate success. But 15 seconds with the magic eraser makes the cork exactly as new. |
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Location: Apollo, PA | Always used alittle 409 on mine and a damp clean towel. Never hurt them and cleaned them right up |
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Location: Corning, Iowa | Thanks everyone. I thought it was a simple thing, but, wasn't sure how aggressive to be. thanks Doug |
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Location: Oregon | Regular old dish soap and one of those green scratchy things, 2 minutes and it will look like brand new.
Jed V.
Edited by RiverMan 9/10/2008 3:35 PM
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