Thursday I went fishing at lunch, not much action until it was time to leave, so I stuck around a few extra minutes. Got back to the car and decided I wanted to fish the next day before work so I just seperated the 2 sections of the rod and placed them in the back of the van, not in the PVC tube like I always did "I can be careful for a day". I did not get to go Friday. Sunday I was looking for some stuff in the back of the van, moved some stuff around, then closed it up. Some thing told me to open the door again, when I did I looked down and, yep you guessed, it there was the tip of my 7'9" 3wt HH rod I built sitting at a 90 degree angle to the rest of the rod. DOH. I've got an e-mail in to Ron to see if he has some extra tip sections, if not I will try to reinstall the tip-top and have a 7'7" rod.