Repair Toss Wand

JTree

JTree

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Alright, I've busted both my toss wands. I broke the string snares and I'm having a real tough time repairing them. I was told "strong fishing string" by one person, so I dug out some of my braided fishing line, which didn't work out. I tried stringing up the line like the original snare, but the knot I tied to keep in attached slipped through the hole that secured the original snare. I tried tying the fishing line through the hole at the end of the inner wand, but it broke. I BRAIDED some fishing line to increase the diameter and tied it like the original snare.....it still didn't work. I bought the toss wand repair strings from sherrill, and I can't seem to make them FIT. They are MUCH thicker than the original string. I read somewhere that spectra kite sting is the ticket, but UGH! I'm not seeing anywhere to buy a reasonable length of it. A little help please?
 
If you have a wand, you obviously splice, if you splice you have scraps of all kind. I take scraps of technora or vectran and braid my own snares. The one I have now is vectran pulled from some HRC, it's lasted about a year.
 
@ timber - Nice.....just the size I need too.

@ matt - Awesome, I just did a few Ice Tail splices. I'll get right on making a few snares. Interestingly enough, that was the exact method I used with the fishing string snare I made that didn't work out perfectly. I guess the threads where just too small. I wonder what spider wire is made out of anyway. I got LOADS of it layin' around, and thinking about how strong a single filiment of spider wire is, a three braid has to be close to the factory spectra. I may try to make em out of fishing string again and use a different knot or something.

@ banjo - Thank you for your suggestions. I'll make some and buy some as well. I save crap loads of money making my own prusiks, but @ 2 bucks a pop, I'd rather buy 'em than make 'em. Time is precious to me and braiding snares isn't an activity I'm thrilled about. I WILL however wait until I make a K&RS order before I buy 'em, that way I don't get hit for shipping 2wice.
 
I've repaired the wands already, but in interest of getting all the info that I can while the thread is still active:

PUClimber: Where are you buying spectra kite string on the cheap?
 
I buy mine from hobby lobby usually. You can get a reel of it so you've already got it on hand in case it does break cut another piece and boom.
 
Mine came with the heavy duty snare, but I wish they made the post out of stainless not brass, I snapped the end off my first, the first time i used it.
 
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The same thing happened to me. I got a piece of stainless, drilled the tip, hogged a half off with a carbide burr, and then cleaned and polished it up with my dremel. Drilling a hole in the top of a piece of stainless that small sucked.

It can be done and it's definitely worth it though. And like banjo I'm using vectran for a snare too.
 
Hi all,
Glad to see all the good advice. I'll just add some details. First, we now put an anti-chafe coating (made by Spinlock)on the micro and small snares, so the snares will last longer. Next, we've gone to much heavier-duty (1/16") snares for our medium and large Wands (the sizes you'll probably use most). The trick with the medium Wand is to tie an overhand knot in both ends of the snare, rather than tying the two ends together,to make a loop. The two knots stack up next to each other in the little recess in the rod, leaving just enough room to slide the tube on. The large tube is big enough to fit over a loop form.
Oh, and we now also put a thin coat of epoxy on the "shaft" section of the micro snare, so it can't fold over inside the tube.
If anyone wants more details about any of this, be in touch; I'd just as soon let somebody else do all that tweezy work.
As for snapping the end of the rod off, jeez, you guys are monsters! But I'd be happy to call it a manufacturing flaw, and replace the item for free.
 
The offer is definitely appreciated but I'm all set now. I broke mine trying to finish an eye splice on some VERY used 16 strand. Needless to say there was very little massaging and a whole lot of swearing... operator abuse on my part.
 
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