mangrovejack
6th June 2006, 01:42 PM
Hi,
I have a question for you. I'm building a fishing rod at the moment and due to the size of the butt area, I have a fishing reel seat with an internal diameter of about 34mm. The largest seat I can get is 32mm. There is plenty of aluminium to bore out (I think its at least 3mm thick the tubing used to make the aluminium reel seat).
My question is, would it be possible to increase the internal diameter of the reel seata by about 2mm? If so how would this be done? I don't have any mills, lathes, CNC machines etc, so I'd most likely have to take it to a shop to do.
Does anyone have any recommendations as to where I should get this work done? (I'm in Brisbane). And most importantly, how much would I be charged for this? (I'll be needing two of them done).
Thanks.
PS, This is the reel seat I'll be getting: http://www.therodworks.com.au/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=3642&category_id=236&option=com_phpshop&Itemid=1
And if you look at this photo you can see the wall thickness: http://www.therodworks.com.au/components/com_phpshop/shop_image/product/45cc07b51b9913cf8d5f75d65611edf4.jpg
I have a question for you. I'm building a fishing rod at the moment and due to the size of the butt area, I have a fishing reel seat with an internal diameter of about 34mm. The largest seat I can get is 32mm. There is plenty of aluminium to bore out (I think its at least 3mm thick the tubing used to make the aluminium reel seat).
My question is, would it be possible to increase the internal diameter of the reel seata by about 2mm? If so how would this be done? I don't have any mills, lathes, CNC machines etc, so I'd most likely have to take it to a shop to do.
Does anyone have any recommendations as to where I should get this work done? (I'm in Brisbane). And most importantly, how much would I be charged for this? (I'll be needing two of them done).
Thanks.
PS, This is the reel seat I'll be getting: http://www.therodworks.com.au/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=3642&category_id=236&option=com_phpshop&Itemid=1
And if you look at this photo you can see the wall thickness: http://www.therodworks.com.au/components/com_phpshop/shop_image/product/45cc07b51b9913cf8d5f75d65611edf4.jpg