Double cap tubes
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Double cap tubes
#1Greetings,
Anyone know who, other than Winchester, used double cap tubes?
Thanks
Anyone know who, other than Winchester, used double cap tubes?
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Re: Double cap tubes
#3The only double capped tubes I’ve ever seen are Winchester
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Re: Double cap tubes
#6I've never heard of a Heddon tube with double screw-on caps. Did early South Bend/Cross tubes have double caps? I'm probably thinking of Winchester.
Re: Double cap tubes
#7I was thinking of the compression type Heddon caps, not screw on. I did have an early South Bend #120 that had screw on caps both ends. It was an aluminium tube with heavy brass screw on caps. Both caps were stamped with the early South Bend logo. The problem with that was you didn't know which way was up.
Vern
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Re: Double cap tubes
#9Yes, that was the one I was thinking of. South Bend.jvh wrote: ↑07/06/22 12:25I was thinking of the compression type Heddon caps, not screw on. I did have an early South Bend #120 that had screw on caps both ends. It was an aluminium tube with heavy brass screw on caps. Both caps were stamped with the early South Bend logo. The problem with that was you didn't know which way was up.
Vern
Re: Double cap tubes
#10Catalog references show up in 1930 but illustrations of South Bend's double capped tubes don't show up until the 1932, with caps appearing to be aluminum. Sometimes the tubes are described as high quality, sometimes simply as aluminum. They differed from Cross tubes, some of which were aluminum with slip on brass caps, or aluminum with screw on nickel plated(?) aluminum caps, possibly depending on the production year.
Re: Double cap tubes
#11A have an Edwards A&F Favorite, 7 1/2', 5wt, that came with a double cap tube. I assumed it was original to the rod but cannot validate that. I always thought it was made in the in the post-Winchester era, possibly by Gene Edwards, but again, both are assumptions.
Thoughts?
-Dwight
Thoughts?
-Dwight
Re: Double cap tubes
#13Thanks but just wanted to answer OP’s question re non-Winchester screw top/bottom tubes. Edwards (non-Winchester), in this case.
-Dwight
-Dwight