Where can I purchase the ceramic rings that go into the guides? I checked Cabelas, Jansnet and Bass Pro but they only sell the complete guide. Thanks for your help, tr
Basically you can't.
The guides are put together at the factory, complete with the ceramic rings.
If you do something to the guide, such that you lose the ceramic ring, you remove the complete guide and replace it.
It is a simple matter, to heat the guide with a heat gun, then use a razor blade to cut through the thread and glue to remove the guide.
With the guide off, you use the heat gun and the razor blade to clean up the blank.
Then take the new guide, tape it in place and rewrap it with guide thread.
With the wrap complete, coat the guide with guide coating or epoxy. The guide coatining does a nicer job, but you can use epoxy in a pinch. If you use a heat gun as you are drying the epoxy, you can thin the cement, get it to penetrate the thread and do a better job, as you rotate the blank to keep the cement from dripping.
In a bit, you are complete and have a rod as good as new.
Take care
REW