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Originally Posted by DZ
I have used plastic shampoo bottles as plug tubes for years - very light in weight and they last a few seasons. You'll always have new ones available (as long as you keep washing your hair). I cut the tops off and poke a few holes in the bottom for drainage. I'll post a few photos tonight.
DZ
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And if you gget the bottles with the short necks, cut the bottom of the bottle off and trim the cap down. You get your drain hole, a small narrowing at the bottom of the "tube", and fairly resistant to breaking. Now that I'm thinking about it, one of those skinnier but wide ones might be perfect for needles
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Originally Posted by bart
we've heard this song and dance before. people don't know how to take them on and off, no one reads the label, you can't treat a porsche like a chevy, blah blah blah
the fact is a $200+ product shouldn't fail after minimal use.
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I agree and disagree. I can go out with almost every $200 reel and get it to fail enough when fished hard in the salt. I have 3 years (3.5?) fishing my Hurricane and probably wore 150 times and the only problems with it have been self induced. Yeh, I'm going to retape a couple things and maybe destinkafy it but it has been solid. And my body type can, err, stress fabric we'll just say
. My EVO 2 has 1.5 years on it and it is still OK, no tears. But I take it off my skinny frame like as if it were delicate silk, I don't wear my watch, and I'm just easy with it. I have seen people semi trash drytops by ripping them on & off and I see people more often than not rough on all of these tops (Simms, Skinz, whatever) and none of them are going to last under this AND be sealable that I've seen.
Now I have seen some problems, like on the early gen gloves ripping (mine did) and I had to get some new ones (and I was being a delicate little flower
oke: ). But like many things, Generation 1 devices are rarely perfect and get better as they are tweaked. One thing I think most will agree on is that Aquaskinz
does continually improve on their product.
Yeh, Skinz is a sponsor on S-B but I'm making this statement on what I've done and what I've seen, not because who is a sponsor or not. My Hurricane is one of my top 5 favorite fishing products, the Evo may or may not make the top 10 (unless I'm waqding deep).