How I fixed my broken rod

[jwilson48]

Have any of you ever broken a rod? Lol most of us have. I recently broke my 11ft Crappie Maxx that I really liked. BPS doesn't sell replacement halves so I was left with the option of putting a new eye on it and having a rod about 8" shorter or trying to somehow splice it back together. I watched a few videos on youtube but didn't like the finished product on most of them so I came up with my own way of doing it.
First I found a roll pin that fit snug in the two halves about an inch long. I used gorilla glue super glue gel and glued the roll pin into one half. After it cured I lined up and glued the other half onto the first. Then I took some 10 lb test braid and back served over the break about 2" total (1" on each side of the break. I finished it off with a couple top layers of superglue to bond everything together and harden/protect the braid.
Took all of 15 minutes to do and now that it has cured I have been torquing the heck out of it and it seems to be as good as new. I can't tell a difference in performance at all, and the repair is only the thickness of 10 lb mono (2lb diameter). I have no idea how long it will last but thought I would share with you guys in case you have a broken rod laying around that you miss. Didn't cost me a penny as I already had the materials. The only thing I could think of that would have made it better is to use a more flexible glue than super glue gel, but that is also what I use when I have to retie guides on and i've never had any problems with it.

If you have a better way, please feel free to comment on how you have repaired your rods in the past. No sense in throwing away a $60 rod when you can fix it for pennies.

[Billbob]

sounds great

[genec]

I USE OLD RODS AND EITHER SLIDE IT OVER BROKEN ROD AND GLUE OR PUT IT INSIDE OF BROKEN ROD AND GLUE

[Crestliner08]

Sounds like a successful repair. Congrats!

[jackie53]

Grizzly jig has replacement tip section's for most rod's.May have to call them and reasonable.B&M has replacement tip's also.Great tip for repairing broken rod's.Thank's

[Fatman]

Sounds like a successful repair - fish it up and let us know how it goes

[jaxsprat]

Sounds like a successful repair - fish it up and let us know how it goes

Good job on the repair,smart thinking....

[ad1974]

Sounds like a good fix

[trypman1]

Good info, thanks.

[skeetbum]

Sounds like a good repair. You mentioned a more flexible glue. and I'd like to suggest some of the Devcon epoxy products. Some of them cure in 30 minutes and others go longer and I think there's some that cure in like 10 minutes but that isn't much work time. That's what I use and so far they've stayed put. Good job serving the joint so they don't splinter further. In a pinch when you don't have anything else, like a camping trip or such, even mono will do for a time.