Your best or worst bodge job? Or any job.

[no-one in particular]

Its been done before Mark. Do you remember those bl**dy awful Newark Needle Floats they couldn't sell so they gave them away free with Angling Times?

I do remember them, useless things, but I like the look of these pencils, a couple of bands and the jobs done. I might hide the pencil bit though, shouldn't be difficult, chop the end off, a blob of paint and varnish and paint feather motifs on as well, no one will know the difference three quid each on eBay that's 35*3=£105.-mmmmm tasty. Daley's float company has just been born.

 

[no-one in particular]

The worlds first ever Daley float, this will be a collectors item one day, poor old Purple, he must be having a fit.-

 

[itsfishingnotcatching]

I'm assuming the lead makes it a loaded pencil

Taxi.................

 

[rayner]

I use Norfolk reed or Sakanda reed for my wagglers even though there are some decent looking floats on eBay my own efforts are no more than bodged.
I know Mark Wintle makes some stick floats from Poundland paintbrushes. Your float pictured will work I sure Mark.

 

[no-one in particular]

I use Norfolk reed or Sakanda reed for my wagglers even though there are some decent looking floats on eBay my own efforts are no more than bodged.
I know Mark Wintle makes some stick floats from Poundland paintbrushes. Your float pictured will work I sure Mark.

Actually, I think it will, it is quite heavy and sometimes you one want one like that in windy conditions, it will have its day I am sure. I think I might ditch the feather though, anyone got any mickey mouse transfers they don't want.

 

[john step]

The worlds first ever Daley float, this will be a collectors item one day, poor old Purple, he must be having a fit.-
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Mark, you have risen to new heights( or depths ). Very funny thread and a tonic in these times. Now where's that old broomstick I intend to make into a pier rod?

 

[Wakou]

@john step
Old Broomstick?
Have a google for:
"The worm-gitter"

 

[no-one in particular]

Thought I would revisit one of my repair jobs and give it a bit of a modern makeover. I don't normally go in for cosmetic but I applied some shrink tube to it, amazing stuff, what a difference. I know it will be wasted on here, still, instead of buying a new Acolyte rod tip for 70 sheets I thought it might help quite a lot of you save some money. Line, superglue, shrink tube cost about 25p and about 30minutes of your time, no need to thank me.

 

[markcw]

Thought I would revisit one of my repair jobs and give it a bit of a modern makeover. I don't normally go in for cosmetic but I applied some shrink tube to it, amazing stuff, what a difference. I know it will be wasted on here, still, instead of buying a new Acolyte rod tip for 70 sheets I thought it might help quite a lot of you save some money. Line, superglue, shrink tube cost about 25p and about 30minutes of your time, no need to thank me.
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We wont thank you,
Is that shrink tube for a drain pipe,? There seems a lot of it,
Would have look better if had been straight, which dogs hind leg did you model it on ? ?

 

[john step]

@john step
Old Broomstick?
Have a google for:
"The worm-gitter"

Brilliant. One in the tackle bag for when you want to use worm and have not any with you?

 

[no-one in particular]

We wont thank you,
Is that shrink tube for a drain pipe,? There seems a lot of it,
Would have look better if had been straight, which dogs hind leg did you model it on ? ?

Always picking holes, the trouble was the repair was uneven and I couldn't get a small bit of shrink tube over the ring so it sticks out a bit on the ends but I might trim them down a bit and add a bit more glue, that should do it. There's not much of a dogs leg in it, when I am fishing I don't notice it when I am holding the rod at the right angle.

 

[no-one in particular]

There you go, cant see it now, the ends blend in with the rod, I will wait to that dries and add a blob of paint, cant pick holes in that, am I talented or what; I am definitely wasted on here.

 

[rayner]

I reckon the rod would fish better with the 70 quid repair.

 

[no-one in particular]

I reckon the rod would fish better with the 70 quid repair.

I doubt it, I had a hundred grand repair done on me a couple of years ago and I still fish like a tosspot. There's a fishing moral in there somewhere.

 

[Peter Jacobs]

" Line, superglue, shrink tube cost about 25p and about 30minutes of your time, no need to thank me. "

Wow, only 30 minutes . . who'd have thunk that . . .

 

[markcw]

There you go, cant see it now, the ends blend in with the rod, I will wait to that dries and add a blob of paint, cant pick holes in that, am I talented or what; I am definitely wasted on here.

Dont give up the day job.

 

[markcw]

There you go, cant see it now, the ends blend in with the rod, I will wait to that dries and add a blob of paint, cant pick holes in that, am I talented or what; I am definitely wasted on here.

Is that a piece of lugworm on the tip ?

 

[markcw]

I doubt it, I had a hundred grand repair done on me a couple of years ago and I still fish like a tosspot. There's a fishing moral in there somewhere.

I think your hundred grand repair job came with a delusional kit on rod repairs,
You would have probably got a better finish with some liquid resin and hardener instead of superglue and shrink tube.

 

[Ray Roberts]

There you go, cant see it now, the ends blend in with the rod, I will wait to that dries and add a blob of paint, cant pick holes in that, am I talented or what; I am definitely wasted on here.

Wasted on here? You must have been wasted when you did the repair.


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[no-one in particular]

Wow, only 30 minutes . . who'd have thunk that . . .

You can pipe down as well. I have enough to contend with from the droll brigade. Gorden bennet, what next, the Canterbury Cathedral bloody choir joining in.