Despite the strength and durability of carbon fibre fishing poles and fishing rods, fractures or complete breaks in the pole do happen from time to time.
If you're unlucky enough to have this happen to you then your options are to buy a new pole, have the pole professionally repaired or to repair the pole yourself using Easy Composites' carbon fibre Fishing Pole / Rod Repair Kit.
The kit includes all of the necessary materials and equipment to complete the repair and requires only competent practical skills and a couple of hours of your time to repair your broken or fractured fishing pole or rod so that it is as strong as it was before the damage occurred.
Video Guide
This video guide was recorded under the brand of our sister company Carbon Mods. We are all part of the same group and the kit shown in the video is exactly the same.
Size of Kit
This kit has been designed to allow for the repair of at least 3 broken fishing rods and so includes sufficient heat shrink tape, resin and carbon fibre fabric to do at least 3 repair jobs.
Kit Contents
Please note, we have recently upgraded our Fishing Pole Repair Kit to use a very special light weight 90gsm carbon fabric allowing very light repairs (0.3mm thick) to be made, if required. The resin system has also been updated to the EL2, so please be aware that the mix ratio has now changed to 100:30
- 150mm x 1000mm plain weave carbon 90g carbon fibre fabric.
- 154g EL2 Epoxy resin.
- 46g AT30 Fast Epoxy hardener.
- 10 metres, Hi Shrink composites heat shrink tape.
- 120, 240, 400 and 800 grit abrasive paper.
- 2x laminating brushes, mixing cups and sticks.
- Polishing Compound
- 3x Alcohol Wipes
All materials are supplied in high quality, re-sealable containers and shipped in protective packaging.
Dimensions
When unrolled the carbon fibre fabric is 150mm(5.9") wide and 1000mm(39.4") long.
Instructions:
As with all Carbon Mods carbon fibre kits, complete instructions on how to use the kit are freely available to download from this site.
Click here to download full instructions in PDF format
Click here to download plans for the repair jig in PDF format
Repair Method Outline
- Roughen the surface around the broken pole using the included abrasive paper.
- Apply some epoxy resin to the area around the break.
- Bring the two halves of the pole or rod together if necessary.
- Wrap the rod with the special plain weave carbon fibre fabric, applying additional resin as you go.
- Wrap the repair with the special high-shrink tape.
- Apply heat to the tape (using a heat gun or powerful hair dryer).
- Splint the repair if necessary (if the pole/rod was broken completely).
- Leave to cure then remove the tape.
- Polish the repair to leave a professional finish.