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Where can I get these sinkers?

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Topic: Where can I get these sinkers?
Posted By: Joker
Subject: Where can I get these sinkers?
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2003 at 11:56am

Hi Guys,

A couple of years ago at the Red Barn you could get sinkers made out of varying diameter lead wire that looked a bit like a cork screw and attached as a running sinker. These sinkers could be changed simply by unwinding the line from within the sinker. It was dead easy to add/subtract weight instantly wihout cutting the line.

I am nearly out of my stocks and would like more. Does anyone know of a supply in the Auckland area or are any of you sinker makers out there going to fill this niche? 

  

 


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Posted By: Bushpig
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2003 at 12:02pm

There is a sinker called a sled (i think) any way is has a plastic piece that you put your mainn line through. The weight then slips onto this. The weight is simple to change with out cutting your line.

Not that good for straylining but works well as a running sinker.


Posted By: Barrie
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2003 at 5:16pm
hey Mr Joker
I to am running short of them and found them to be great...Have the warehouse not got them now?
will look out in west auck and see if they have any left..will let you know

Posted By: Joseph Lau
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2003 at 9:47am
Hi Joker, I think the type you mentioned is not really a sinker per se but more a piece of wire which you can attach bomb sinkers to. If it is this type, I am quite sure I have seen it at Westhaven.

Posted By: Joker
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2003 at 1:09pm

Hi Joseph,

No, Its definitely thick lead wire that has been rolled around something like a nail to produce a corkscrew shape about an inch long - you wind your line around the corkscrew until it slides freely as a running sinker then press on the ends to close the spirals up, so you have a kind of solid tube running on your line. To remove the sinker stretch it slichtly and unwind the line. Heavier sinkers use thicker wire. 1/4 ounce is the thickness of a ball point pen tube.  

Regards

Joker

Posted By: pland
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2003 at 9:28pm

Sure I saw an article in the last year or so mentioning them & Papa Aroha in the same breath.

May be worth giving them a call

Pland


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