Mark Wintle
Well-known member
Jeff,
I've just cured a type B Daiwa seat by glueing a 1/2 inch wide (12mm to you) strip of bike inner tube to the cork under where the reel sits. The strip is 4 inches long. Somehow it tightens up the grip, and stops the rings from slipping apart.
I've also double changed a Fuji fitted Normark, first to a cork with inner tube reel fittings handle for ten years, and more recently to metal rings.
I have altered the angle the reel sits to angle it towards the first ring.
My redesign using cork remains highly satisfactory though laborious to achieve.
I've just cured a type B Daiwa seat by glueing a 1/2 inch wide (12mm to you) strip of bike inner tube to the cork under where the reel sits. The strip is 4 inches long. Somehow it tightens up the grip, and stops the rings from slipping apart.
I've also double changed a Fuji fitted Normark, first to a cork with inner tube reel fittings handle for ten years, and more recently to metal rings.
I have altered the angle the reel sits to angle it towards the first ring.
My redesign using cork remains highly satisfactory though laborious to achieve.