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Recent content by blakdog is back

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    Advice Penn reels

    Not at all ... I still reckon its the oil to use to keep the USA 525s running nicely (and quiet) and a good few customers still insist on me using only 3-in-1 in their reel bearings. Only use the original stuff though, don't use the stuff with the added PTFE .. nasty stuff for bearings (good...
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    Advice Penn reels

    They are not completely sealed so the lighter fuel (or spray brake cleaner) will do the trick. Heating bearings is pointless and potentially damaging if you go too far ... light oils of the type used will go into the bearings easily enough.
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    Vmo

    Or should the manufacturer have checked it in the factory? Or maybe the courier should have checked it before he delivered a faulty product? I'm sure if we look hard enough we can turn every positive into a negative. The important point here is that there was an issue with an order and VMO...
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    Vmo

    Product placement = advertisement. Brand ambassadeur = advertisement. Nothing has changed things just have different names ... grown ups just ignore it. Helping fund clubs with either cash or kind = sponsorship (such as raffle or competition prizes). Thats the stuff that keeps clubs running...
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    Vmo

    Supporting/sponsoring are effectively the same thing - I didn't say anything at all about discounting if you read the post properly. It doesn't come more grass roots than supporting local clubs which ALL of those you mentioned do. just because you don't see it posted all over the place doesn't...
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    Vmo

    Giving stuff away is expensive, it costs money and that invariably means extra overheads that the end customer has to pay ... then of course everybody moans that said retailer is too expensive or supposedly trying to rip people off or that you don't want to have to pay extra because they offer...
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    Tangles

    The basic rule is to use significantly different diameter lines for snoods and body and different colour mono, even to the point of using different colour mono where two snoods go side-by-side such as on the Bomber rig. It doesn't prevent tangles but it does make them a hell of a lot easier to...
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    Buying terminal tackle online

    The B940 is one of the few hooks that does sell well in 100s.
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    Buying terminal tackle online

    And as I said ... I sell them ... and the 100 packs sit there and grow old, the 25 packs disappear at a steady rate. Its a no-brainer quite frankly.
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    Impact shield

    Put the tube in your fridge at home if it's that bad, though ultraviolet is worse than heat I think.
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    Buying terminal tackle online

    Quantity discounts vary ... but you have to go way higher than 10000 if you want the sort of discounts you think people are somehow entitled to. Even then it isn't often much because the stuff sits around taking up space and that too costs money ... as before it still has to all be sorted and...
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    Buying terminal tackle online

    There is something very wrong if they are cheaper on Ebay than in their shop or their own website .... because they still have all the same overheads that they have from their shop and then they have to add the Ebay seller fees ... they average at about 13 to 15% for a UK sale now and as much...
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    Buying terminal tackle online

    The profit margin will usually be the same whatever the size of the packet. The extra cost comes from the time of somebody having to pack each individual 10 hooks in a costly packaging. A voice of sense at last. I sell Eagle Claw circles in packs of 25 or 100 for example ... its the 25s that...
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    Impact shield

    Shouldn't be a problem unless they are out of the water for a long time ... they don't get hot in the water.
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    Impact shield

    In that case you weren't using them correctly. If correctly tied they are the most reliable clip going ... can take any size bait or hook and can do nothing but release if they are set up correctly. The really common mistake people make with them is they tie the rigs either without a stop...
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