I have built plenty of rods from scratch and replaced a few guides that were broken but never fully refurbished an old rod.
I have a couple of bronze color Loomis cranking rods in decent shape. I noticed that even though two of them are the exact same model their guides are spaced entirely differently. I guess mass manufacturing. What I want to do is get rid of the cheap guides they put on them and replace them with low profile Fuji concept guides as I have built most of my rods that way.
What is the best way of getting the old epoxy off along with the old guides? The guides that I have repaired in the past are not a really satisfactory neat job but are very functional. I want to do a neat job with this project.
Any advice would be appreciated.