Finding a cracked guide ring

[dragon1]

I had this happen to me one time on my imx pro rod. Turn out to be to much epoxy on one of the guides and the epoxy ran down to the rings thus causing it to rub on the epoxy and would cut my line. Took a knife and rubbed on it and the residue fell off. Another time was where a ring was not centered and the line was rubbing on the guide frame it self. I was stunned to like you didn't know what was happening. Finally saw my tip top guide ring was not centered.

Damn good info here! Thanks for sharing.