On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 06:12:23 GMT, Mike McGuire
wrote:

rw wrote:
riverman wrote:
them fit snugly. They make several dozen types of endcaps, so it
wouldn't be hard to find one that did the job.


PVC is heavy.

The lightest commonly available rod tubes are made with aluminum. Sage
has great aluminum rod tubes.



Not so. You do have to use the schedule 200 thin wall irrigation pipe,
not the thick wall schedule 40 domestic plumbing pipe. I weighed my PVC
tube and closures. Comes in around 330 grams for a 4 piece 9' rod. .

And 330 grams is...

TC,
R
.... I'm going to bet it's darned near 1/3 of a kilogram...and a few
ounces more than 9 or 10...