TUBE FLY VICE
Grays Tube Fly Adaptor
supplied with 25 stainless steel Needle
Tubes
£19.99
in our Flyshop
The photograph above shows the new Grays Tube Fly
Adapter fitted to a standard Regal fly tying vice and holding a
stainless steel Needle Tube, diameter 1.5mm, ready to be dressed.
The new Tube Fly Adaptor from Grays of Kilsyth is
supplied with a selection of twenty five assorted
stainless steel Needle Tubes in 1.5mm diameter and 3 pins for
tying plastic tubes.
£19.99
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Very similar to the HMH Starter Tube Tool, this
new Tube Fly Adaptor from Grays of Kilsyth is an
inexpensive, yet extremely practical and versatile tool which
may be easily and quickly fitted to any standard fly tying vice
head, allowing the fly tyer to hold a range of tubes securely
for dressing a wide variety of tube flies. It is well suited to
holding Grays Needle Tubes in lengths from 10mm upwards, as
shown below (tubes of 10mm or less can also be held and may be secured with the aid of a
pin or needle to allow access for a body dressing if desired, as
shown below). In addition, the adaptor will hold conventional fly tying
tubes or any of the growing number of new tube styles now widely
available to the fly tyer.
see also
Grays Tube Fly Adaptor
Using Grays
Tube Fly Adaptor
Grays Tube Fly Adaptor will hold a wide range of
tubes. Grays Tube Fly Adapter excels particularly in holding
metal tubes, which may be clamped very simply and securely in
the ring of the tube tool. The photograph below shows a 35mm long
stainless steel Needle
Tube (external diameter 1.5mm) clamped in the tube adapter ready
for tying. The Tube Fly Tool can also hold
thicker, more conventional metal tubes, in copper, brass or
aluminium, up to 3mm in diameter, secured in the same way.
Needle Tube in the adaptor
Shrimp Fly dressed on a Needle Tube
Where a body dressing is required on a tube fly, longer
metal tubes may be clamped in the ring of the adapter, as
above, and dressed to within about 6 or 7 mm of the rear of
the tube, those 6 or 7 mm providing a good space for the
addition of a silicone or PVC hook link tube.
How to access the rear of
the tube for dressing
In order to allow more access and room to dress the body of
short fly tying tubes, say less than 10mm in length, or to
access a greater length of the tube for applying a dressed
body, a pin
or sewing needle of suitable diameter may be used to help secure
the tube, as shown below.
If using this method (which I would
only recommend for very short tubes of 10 mm or less), care
should be taken not to damage the tube's plastic liner, either
by using too thick a needle or by clamping the liner in the
securing ring. The method I use is as follows:
1. First insert the needle or pin into the
tube. The needle/pin diameter should be approximately equal to
the internal diameter of the plastic tube liner. The needle
diameter may be very slightly larger, as it need only be
inserted a few millimetres into the tube, but not so large that
it damages the plastic tube liner when inserted.
2. Loosen the clamping ring just sufficiently
to allow the needle or pin to be inserted into the tube fly tool
from the front end (the right hand side in the photograph
below).
3. Pushing the ring downwards with the left
forefinger, butt the tube liner firmly against the side
of the clamping ring and tighten the clamp screw to secure the
needle, being careful not to clamp any part of the tube liner
inside the ring.
For use with Gray's Needle Tubes,
I would recommend sewing needles in size 8 or 9 which have a
diameter of 0.61mm. The needle tube fly below was
dressed on a 10mm needle tube secured directly in the ring
of Grays
adaptor but there was not much room for the dressing.
The dressing would have been much easier if a needle had
been employed with care to extend the area to be dressed, as
shown below.
Dressing Plastic Tubes
With the aid of one of the three longer pins supplied for
the purpose, plastic tubes of varying diameter may also be
held in Grays tube
adapter.
Grays Tube Fly Adaptor with 25
Needle Tubes
£19.99
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