Hi,
you Americans have strange units of measurement. Whatever grains are
(Wiskey?)
Found the following table in Don Phillips "The Technology of Fly Rods". It
is the weight of the first 30 feet of a line in grains.
-- Heard, that the US switches to the metric system before 1900. Needs time
to perform <G>
Here is the table:
Line Class Nomial weight
0 56
1 60
2 80
3 100
4 120
5 140
6 160
7 185
8 210
9 240
10 280
11 330
12 380
13 450
14 500
15 550
Class 0, 13-15 are not standardized yet!
Regards
Rene
Cologne, Germany
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Von: Tony Spezio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: Dienstag, 12. M�rz 2002 13:48
Betreff: Re: [VFB] Mystery Line ???
>You can weigh the first 30' of line. I have a chart somewhere that will
give the
>line size for the weight of the 30' of line.
>I am sure someone out there has it handy.
>Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Desert Eagle wrote:
>
>> OK, Thanks to Dan, Rob and Neville I have some idea as to what my problem
>> is. Now to try to solve it.
>>
>> I have several reels, a couple are mine and a couple came from yard
sales.
>> They have fly line on them, BUT, there is no indication as to the weight
of
>> the fly line. I must confess that when I got my fly rod and real for
Fathers
>> Day last year I neglected to indicate on the real what wt line I had on
it.
>>
>> Now for the "Big" question, Without having to remove all the lines and
load
>> with new ones and mark the reels, ( An expense I cannot afford right
now),
>> is there a way to;
>> A; determine the weight fly line from a reel ? ( Actually weigh the line
>> with something like a powder scale, measure it and find out ??)
>> B; determine the configuration, ( I.E., Wt Forward, Double Taper, ETC.)
>>
>> If not any of the above I assume that the only alternative would be to
put
>> each one on each rod and see how they cast and guess.
>>
>> Befuddled,
>> Jimi
>
