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<blockquote data-quote="Bobsbaits" data-source="post: 342100" data-attributes="member: 12589"><p>Spent most of the weekend working on the rod box. I thought this was going to be a lot easier, but all the measuring, cutting riveting takes some time. I was looking for golf tubes for the rod tips, but couldn't find any big enough for the spinning rod eyelets to go thru. Would probably be fine if the rod box was longer, but I wanted to passenger to have some leg room. I bought a piece of Starboard off of ebay to use for the tubes and the rod butts. Cut real nice, almost like working with wood without the splinters. For the rods I finally settled on 2" PVC, was an easy call because it is big enough and I had the tubes left over from the original. Since I had originally planned on more rods and because I bought a couple golf tubes to test out, I went ahead and cut them in around the bigger tubes. I figured this would give me more rods and I can put shorter baitcasters in these. Didn't quite get the rod box done, but I got it in and mostly done. I started putting the carpet in and need some couplers to put the PVC tubes in. I also added a battery tray as I plan to move the 2 trolling motor batteris to the front. I read alot about the batteries bouncing more up front so I put a ratchet strap in to hold them down. I also added a fuel water separator in the back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bobsbaits, post: 342100, member: 12589"] Spent most of the weekend working on the rod box. I thought this was going to be a lot easier, but all the measuring, cutting riveting takes some time. I was looking for golf tubes for the rod tips, but couldn't find any big enough for the spinning rod eyelets to go thru. Would probably be fine if the rod box was longer, but I wanted to passenger to have some leg room. I bought a piece of Starboard off of ebay to use for the tubes and the rod butts. Cut real nice, almost like working with wood without the splinters. For the rods I finally settled on 2" PVC, was an easy call because it is big enough and I had the tubes left over from the original. Since I had originally planned on more rods and because I bought a couple golf tubes to test out, I went ahead and cut them in around the bigger tubes. I figured this would give me more rods and I can put shorter baitcasters in these. Didn't quite get the rod box done, but I got it in and mostly done. I started putting the carpet in and need some couplers to put the PVC tubes in. I also added a battery tray as I plan to move the 2 trolling motor batteris to the front. I read alot about the batteries bouncing more up front so I put a ratchet strap in to hold them down. I also added a fuel water separator in the back. [/QUOTE]
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