Chris Thomson
Senior Member
Hi, tied a few rigs up with this and well impressed, luverly combi rigs! Just thought i'd share that little gem with you
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Hi, tied a few rigs up with this and well impressed, luverly combi rigs! Just thought i'd share that little gem with you
Do you find keeping it straight a problem Simon, it has quite a memory, tying combis were a doddle
I just tie em up and clip them onto a rig board, run your pinched finger/thumb up and down them a few times to create a bit of heat and they are fine, DO NOT be tempted to steam it, a couple of people i spoke to who had failures with hydrolink had both steamed them straight, it dosn't seem to like it and its not necessary.
Dave, i seem to remember someone once saying that boiling water was preferable to steam for fixing shrink tube, steam although supposedly the same temperature as boiling water produces more energy/heat or something ?
True enough Simon, but I did try that method out as well...still the same problem. It seemed that the component in the braid that they changed was badly effected by temperatures even below that of boiling water. What happened was that the new material sort of 'jellyfied' and shrank lengthwise, leaving you with a very strange mess caused by some strands of the braid being considerably shorter than the rest ....not ideal
You could stretch it back to some extent while it was still hot, but the braid was never the same after that. It came in three breaking strains, 10, 15 and 25lbs B/S I think it was, but the 25 was a much nicer braid than the rest. Perhaps the material they used in the 25 became unavailable and they then reverted to the components of the other types. Whatever, it was never the same after that, so I stopped using it.
Cheers, Dave.
Thats bad news re Silkworm, i use that a lot for little balanced/pop up rigs for Tench fishing due to its neutral bouyancy, i bought several spools many years ago (i always do that with good products in case they get discontinued) but i am running short now and need more !