Cleaning rod holder innovation

Bill Wynne

Bill Wynne

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I have found a replacement tube for my cleaning rod in an unexpected place.

This morning I visited a local home center looking for a replacement tube for my cleaning rod since the one that came with it is coming apart. I needed something with at least 11/16 ID. PVC was too thick and wasn't very cheap. The best thing that I found was an aluminum tube but it was 8 feet long and 32 bucks.

On the way out I spied an angled broom with a metal tube for $4.99. The size was right and it has a plastic plug for screwing on to the broom and the handle comes twists off making a removable plug. The tube works great and it is as tough as a boot.

As an afterthought, it might have been smarter of me if I had brought home a new broom for my wife and I could have taken her old one for my cleaning rod.:)

Concho Bill
 
Bill Wynne said:
As an afterthought, it might have been smarter of me if I had brought home a new broom for my wife and I could have taken her old one for my cleaning rod.:)Concho Bill
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No Bill, that would be dumb.

"Honey I'm home. I bought you a new broom."

Think about it.:rolleyes:

Ray
 
Going for one thing and coming home with another.

Often I need to make something and Home Depot and Lowes just doesn't have the raw materials. I'll walk around until I find something else and come home with it and take it appart and make what I wanted to begin with.

Rustystud
 
I use the cardboard shipping tube that the cleaning rods come in when you order them direct from Dewey.

Once I got ready to put a new tube to use that I had got in an order a few months earlier. The darn thing had some packing material stuck in one end that was heck to get out. The 'packing material' was a bag of 17 cal cleaning patches I had ordered. Usually I do a proper job of checking in any new order but I don't know what happened this time :eek:
 
Somebody

makes a tube for a 48" level that will hold at least 3 cleaning rods. Saw a fellow using one as a rod holder at a local range. Sorry I can't give a brand or price. Seems like maybe Stanley but not sure. Lowe's or Home Depot probably would be a starting point. Max
 
Pvc

comes in various schedules, 80 the thickest, 40 in the middle, and 20 which the irrigation folks use. You may have to go to a "real" plumbing/irrigation supply to find it. Nice part is you can get all manner of fittings, like threaded
caps etc.

Aloha, Les
 
A long time ago I found some CPVC tubing that was almost the right ID for the ferrules on Dewey rods. Bought an 8' piece, some elbows and tees and put together a double rod holder for about $6 or so. Could never find the same stuff again but it worked pretty well. The ID was just a little too large for the ferrules so I slit it about 3/4" down and used small hose clamps on the tops of the tubes to squeeze the slits down to grab the ferrules. It's worked well for maybe 20 years now.

A real plumbing supply store would likely have had what I was looking for later.
 
I have nothing against PVC. It is a good product and it doesn't leak. Can you sweep the range with it?

I can with my combination rod holder / broom.:)

Concho Bill
 
That is great! No one will steal your cleaning rod cause it is cleaverly concealed in your broom!
 
With a drill, hacksaw, and a tap, I made a double aluminum rod holder for 11.00. Tubing was 8.32, small pieces of 1/2" aluminum flat stock, 1.50, two delrin type inserts and two chair glides.... I thought about PVC or CPVC but to much flex for me. Can't use a broom....that's where I hide my money...it'll never be found there...:eek: :eek:

Hovis
 
Hovis, now you're getting me thinking which is dangerous - usually to me. The CPVC was easy to put together, but it is kind of floppy and has other problems. I can see how a holder could be made, envisioning your description that would have keep the rod handles off the floor. Hmmmm.
 
Larry,
I don't remember exactly what the inserts were but they looked kinda like a tapered collet made out of something that looked like Delrin, I tapped them in place and then drilled them out and they grab nicely. I looked at Rural King last night and they had eight foot aluminum for 8.32. Could probably get it cheaper at a metal supplier. I used the slip on chair glides. I take the one off that the rod/brush goes in at the shoot so anything can run out the bottom, then I just wipe it and put the glide back on for transportation so that none of that crap gets on carpet in the vehicle. For the holders, I too 2x4x1/2" aluminum, drilled hole for the rods, drilled and tapped next to them and then used a hacksaw to cut a groove to the hole, when I tightened the screw, it clampe the rod holders. If I was to do it again, I would drill from the edge to the center of the hole and use a set screw and use a smaller pieces of aluminum.

Hovis
 
What I am thinking of doing is placing 3 or 4 lengths of fuel line down into my cardboard shipping tube. I would probably use a nylon tie at the bottom to clamp all the fuel line sections together. At the top I would use a nylon tie on each fuel line section to clamp it to the side of the cardboard tube. This would require drilling 8 properly spaced holes in the top perimeter of the main tube This would allow me to carry up to 4 different length or dia cleaning rods on one carrier. I bet the fuel line would keep the rods from falling out easily.

I just happen to have a bunch of tygon fuel line left over from a prior life :D
 
HovisKM said:
Larry,
I don't remember exactly what the inserts were but they looked kinda like a tapered collet made out of something that looked like Delrin, I tapped them in place and then drilled them out and they grab nicely. I looked at Rural King last night and they had eight foot aluminum for 8.32. Could probably get it cheaper at a metal supplier. I used the slip on chair glides. I take the one off that the rod/brush goes in at the shoot so anything can run out the bottom, then I just wipe it and put the glide back on for transportation so that none of that crap gets on carpet in the vehicle. For the holders, I too 2x4x1/2" aluminum, drilled hole for the rods, drilled and tapped next to them and then used a hacksaw to cut a groove to the hole, when I tightened the screw, it clampe the rod holders. If I was to do it again, I would drill from the edge to the center of the hole and use a set screw and use a smaller pieces of aluminum.

Hovis
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Hovis,

THANKS!

Larry
 
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