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  1. 04-04-2013, 11:38 AM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckrub View Post
    In all seriousness, I use 'em. The ones I have ultimately leak. I think what is happening is that you roll up the line when wet (of course) and then it dries and shrinks and cracks the spool part of the plastic. I've taken several and unraveled 'em, and put water-based repair silicone on 'em. They float fine then.........for a WHILE.........and then they leak again. Finding hairline cracks where they leak is hard. Last time I went fishing, I used one I'd repaired, and it did fine.........for a while...then it slowly started sinking. I barely saved it (though I don't know why I bothered, except for the weight) before it went down.
    Buck rub if your talking about hollow plastic ones, get a small can of low expansion foam for windows at Lowes or HomeDepot. Drill a couple of 1/4 in holes at opposite ends. Fill with foam. Make sure to put on newspaper or something cause it will expand out and get on everything. Just leave a couple of days then trim off excess. No more sinking and they float a little higher.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cray View Post
    Buck rub if your talking about hollow plastic ones, get a small can of low expansion foam for windows at Lowes or HomeDepot. Drill a couple of 1/4 in holes at opposite ends. Fill with foam. Make sure to put on newspaper or something cause it will expand out and get on everything. Just leave a couple of days then trim off excess. No more sinking and they float a little higher.
    Great idea!
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    Quote Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine View Post
    Why make em, those store bought ones are CHEAP and they work like a charm!!!!! Lol
    Not if you fish where I do. With all of that splashing around that the orange square ones do, I had an alimagator come up and eat one of mine. He must have thought it was a duck or something splashing around. I had a heck of a time getting it back from him.
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    cray, you're a genius.

    I swear, I am the dumbest one here@!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigrivermarine View Post
    why make em, those store bought ones are cheap and they work like a charm!!!!! Lol
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    If you do get some be sure and not get the dumbell style ones....reason is it takes forever to roll em back up. I use them when setting brush out to mark the area I wanna sink in. They work great for marking open water roads, ditches, drops, channels, ect.
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    Hey, hey...this from the guy w/ all the latest 'n greatest on a new boat??? I still steer my troller w/ my foot. Once a gadget man, always a gadget man.

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