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Post by kingfisher on Mar 19, 2010 10:25:32 GMT
Is this the most expensive reel on the market? www.sportfish.co.uk/product/hardy-zane-ti-fly-reelI have to assume that it is a typo!! As for the description of it not rusting because its "Inert"!! Its because there's no Ferrous metals in the thing - its Titanium for gods sake. Talk about sales pitching kf |
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Post by perthshirefisher on Mar 19, 2010 11:25:41 GMT
Thats the rite price, "Inert" yep no ferrous metals, from what i gatherd there's only a few parts on the normal zane that are,screws one spring centre pin. So to have them "Inert" that will cost you £4600.00  dosent make sense! The Zane is a belter of a reel though,the best i personaly have handled so far. |
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Post by CB on Mar 19, 2010 11:49:37 GMT
As for the description of it not rusting because its "Inert"!! Its because there's no Ferrous metals in the thing - its aluminium. for gods sake. It's not aluminium, it's all Titanium  As for the price, it's expensive but I think you could find them even more expensive, especially if you check what some antique tackle sells for in the auction houses |
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Post by greenbanks on Mar 19, 2010 12:15:05 GMT
There will be a new Titanium salmon fly reel coming to the market soon so watch this space-remember you heard about it here first!! And it will be a cracker  |
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Post by scanny on Mar 19, 2010 12:25:21 GMT
A bit of decadance by Hardy by any chance? Justifying the price must be purely on Brand value as the material costs are sub £1000 easily. Add some cnc lathe and mill time and your cost is 40% of the retail cost. Anyone got a Zane they dont need for a few hours and £2000 to machine their "Inert" one. I suspect a carbon layup would be just as cheap with a pattern made I done some reverse engineering and FEA one day bored at uni on the Hardy Uniqua and it proved to be simplistic to manufacture and could be done for less than the £100+ price tag.   |
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Post by kingfisher on Mar 19, 2010 13:50:43 GMT
That graphic exercise looks grand scanny Don't see the Gibb head key though ;D |
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Post by scanny on Mar 19, 2010 14:17:26 GMT
The G-code is pretty simple on it, and the Zane, it would just eat tooling readily The smart money is on Laser sintering powedered titanium alloy for it, nigh on loss less so nearly on par price wise. There must be over 100 SLS machines in uni's that could do it and for peanuts through KTP, powedered Ti isnt that expensive either. Then the £3000 spare you can diamond encrust it and bling it all you like. A nice Masters Thesis project, just contribute towards the material costs find a friendly lecturer time With sterling being so manufacture and import friendly theres a gap in there....... |
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Post by David1982 on Mar 19, 2010 14:39:22 GMT
£5k just to hold line! |
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Post by kingfisher on Mar 19, 2010 16:56:20 GMT
As for the description of it not rusting because its "Inert"!! Its because there's no Ferrous metals in the thing - its aluminium. for gods sake. It's not aluminium, it's all Titanium As for the price, it's expensive but I think you could find them even more expensive, especially if you check what some antique tackle sells for in the auction houses Your correct, but the drift is the same - I think |
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Post by nessc on Mar 19, 2010 20:07:20 GMT
£5k just to hold line! Aye but it also balances the rod |
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Post by tyke on Apr 5, 2010 16:37:30 GMT
I suppose if you can afford a couple of weeks prime guided fishing for permit & tarpon then you can afford the Zane Ti, after all salt water will bugger even anodised aluminium & the titanium should offer greater resistance.
Of course when you finally hook that 200lb+ fly caught Tarpon, a reel that doesn't seize, blow up or melt might seem like a good buy. I'm off to buy a lottery ticket, if I win I'll take 3 please!
Regards, Tyke.
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Post by alexandra on Apr 7, 2010 4:13:10 GMT
A bit of decadance by Hardy by any chance? Justifying the price must be purely on Brand value as the material costs are sub £1000 easily. Add some cnc lathe and mill time and your cost is 40% of the retail cost. Anyone got a Zane they dont need for a few hours and £2000 to machine their "Inert" one. I suspect a carbon layup would be just as cheap with a pattern made I done some reverse engineering and FEA one day bored at uni on the Hardy Uniqua and it proved to be simplistic to manufacture and could be done for less than the £100+ price tag. Many years ago in Dumbarton the Burroughs Cash Machine Registers had a factory and in this all sort of fishing replicas were created on the nightshift. From Abu Tobies and Devon Minnows to the ultimate reel of the day then the "Hardy Perfect" Salmon Reel. Now these reels were machined out of the best of metals of the day and all had spare spools to go with also, although a lot of them never lasted, there was however ones that were looked after properly and many people were offered good money for them. There was one guy who was once offered two Salmon System 2 reels + spare spools which would come to round about then £180, but he declined the offer as he liked his old replica that much as he had caught that many Salmon using it AL |
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Post by gtroot on Apr 20, 2010 15:54:02 GMT
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Post by perthshirefisher on Oct 3, 2010 19:43:54 GMT
No one see the reduced TI on fleebay?? brand new he was ONLY:) wanting £3500 fur it |
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Post by fredaevans on Oct 8, 2010 0:04:47 GMT
Humm .... 5,000 to 8,000 (is that Pounds or Dollars, or does it make a difference?) but that's a 60% increase in price. Hell, why not, at that money you don't have to sell many to make HUGE MONEY. |
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dosent make sense!
