Broken rod. Fix?
Well I broke about 1.5" off the butt section of my 8wt xi2 today. Right where it slides into the second section. Caught a bunch of reds without an issue, then while setting the hook on the biggest of the day it popped:banghead It was a clean break, and the remaining section was too thick to fit into the female side of the second section. When I got home I took some high grit paper and took down about 1.5" and now it fits nicely. Basically took the blue coating off and left the bare graphite. Should I re-coat the graphite with something to seal it, or is the rod garbage? I don't have a warranty on it since I bought it from a friend. Had the rod for 2 years and caught many fish. Also didn't know if I should reinforce and seal the inside of the blank?
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You'll get an Xi2. If it's a GFL, you'll get a GFL. If it's an RP you'll get an RP. I have a collection of sage rods that spans 30 years, I'm going on 8 or 9 breaks at this point, and they've never substituted a newer model for a dated rod or blank. Though I've been warned about my 1096 RP, since they no longer have the mandrels to reproduce the blank.
Bob LeMay
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I've never had one come back in less than 2 months, and I had one take 14 weeks earlier this year. I don't have a problem with their turnaround time, it is what it is.
Good luck.
Not sure why you have had such bad luck. Bummer for sure. I have well over 20 repairs with Sage alone and they typically have my rod back within 3 weeks of rec't of rod. I have two sages ready to send as I type. I will let you know when I send them and how well or how poorly they do on these.
My best advice is just send your rod in asap, a broken rod sitting in the garage is just a bad memory every time you look at it.
I work for a retailer, I've probably seen 80 sage rods shipped out for warranty issues over the last 5 years. I have never, ever, ever, had a rod come back in less than 2 months. Never.
Radical. I have sent at least 20 in myself and the one before last was from a rod dealer and I have no memory of one taking 8 weeks. I was a sage dealer for 5 years and average was three weeks. But that was a while back.
I will let you know when I send these two in, one is a ZXL 590 and one is a 586 RPL. As soon as I get all the way moved in I will send them and maybe they hate the east coast. Might be the models as well are you sending in Larger or all Xi's? All of mine have been 6 wt or smaller.
Fine rods, fine company, but I'll ditto the two-month time to replace/repair.
Last Loomis I sent in, they did not make the rod anymore and I had a brand new replacement back within 3 weeks.
I recently sent in a Scott and they replaced it with the same rod and back within 2 weeks, but I lived less than 100 miles from the factory.