biggamefish Posted June 6, 2014 Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 Anyone use carbonfiber rod for swimbait joints? Wanting to know if the fiber rods will work with metal screw eyes without wearing out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrybait Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 Only use I have seen is when I was repairing a "wake jr." for a friend I took it apart and believe they use a carbon fiber rod for their hinge pin. I don't have any of the material and I only needed about an inch. I substituted an aluminum nail which I had to turn down slightly to fit and it worked well. Carbon fiber pin works well for the wake jr. though so go for it if you have some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggamefish Posted June 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 Barry thanks for your response, I know company's like 316 uses carbon fiber rods to hold their piano or door hinge joints together, what I wanted to know is if the carbon fiber rod would be ideal to use with the more common metal screw eyes type joints without wearing out the carbon fiber? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrybait Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Biggamefish I didn't read it very closely did I. If you try it, support the carbon rod closely on each side of the screw eye necessary because of the flex of the rod. Also may want to make it replaceable. It is not very difficult to get the rod out of a wake jr. Good Luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
