Old Line wgts ratings

[danoinark]

I hate to ask this because I pride myself in being able to find things here..but for the life of me I thought a few years back there was a converstion from the old line ratings to the current AFTMA ratings. If so I can't find it. Or can anyone tell me what modern line correlates with 3GH...Thanks

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"From the Laid Back Lane in the Arkansas Ozarks"

[dphotoco]

Hope this may help.

It is just some info I knew I had on some xerox copies that might help you. However by what's stated on the text I think it may be very difficult to correlate the two methods of line rating. However that's just my personal opinion.

The letter H stands for a line diameter of 65 of a unit showed as 100/mm, the G letter is for a diameter of 75 of the same units. (I wasn't able to find any info on the number that completes the code you give, 3GH)

A double tapper line will be something like this:

HFH

However depending on the different line materials used (silk vs other syntetic materials) two lines rated as HFH will be of very different weights (and will be rated in two different categories with the AFTMA system). This system worked fine for silk lines and became obsolete later on with the invention of modern, syntetic lines.

Hope this helps a little.

Dave

[This message has been edited by dphotoco (edited 29 July 2005).]

[danoinark]

Thanks Dave...its on and old Wright and Mcgill glas rod that says 3GH - 7 1/2...it may be the 3 correlates to the fact it is a 3 piece rod...and GH is the line rating.
Dan

[danoinark]

Well not that I look at this Dave GH may not have anything to do with the line wgt on this rod. The model is Green Hornet, so what do you wanna bet 3GH-71/2 is simply its a 3 piece green hornet 7/1/2 ft...duh!!!! What a mystery....

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"From the Laid Back Lane in the Arkansas Ozarks"

[grumps]

danoinark

check your e mail

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[danoinark]

Thanks Grumps

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"From the Laid Back Lane in the Arkansas Ozarks"

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[danoinark]

Thanks to All