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froghunter
Post 22 Mar 2010, 05:59 • #1 
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Scientific Angler System fly rods have a letter followed by four numbers printed on the individual rod blanks near the ferrule. Does anyone have an idea of what these mean?

My SA System rods:
System 4 A7247
System 5 C2760
System 6 A6945


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Cornmuse
Post 22 Mar 2010, 08:25 • #2 
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I'd love to know, too. I have three of the System rods - I'll post the s/n's of mine when I return from this road trip.

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Cornmuse
Post 25 Mar 2010, 08:48 • #3 
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The S/N on my system rods:

System 8 - B7224
System 9 - B1849
System 10 - A8317

I'd love to know how these numbers relate to year of manufacture or number of rod made in a particular year or run.
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offshore31
Post 17 May 2016, 19:47 • #4 
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Just found this post, while researching SA gear. Bought an sa8 today, rod and reel. Should be here by Fri. SN b3930. Let me know if anyone's decoded the s/n's
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waynebh
Post 19 May 2016, 11:53 • #5 
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System 4. A7357 plastic tube
System 5 B7142 Aluminum tube
System 6. B7783 Aluminum tube
System 6 5 pc. B8938 Aluminium tube
System 7. A9646 unknown
System 7. A8281 plastic tube
System 8. C3841 unknown
System 9. A2952 unknown
System 10. A1790 plastic tube

Wondered if rod came in an aluminum or plastic tube was somehow related to serial number.

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offshore31
Post 19 May 2016, 12:05 • #6 
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Mine's in an aluminum tube, s/n b3930
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Elwha
Post 20 May 2016, 15:20 • #7 
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My B serial numbered rod had a metal tube.
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ARReflections
Post 28 Sep 2019, 05:32 • #8 
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Resurrecting an old thread. Did folks ever figure out s/n pattern?

Letter A appears to be plastic tube. Any correlation between S/n and rod appointments or fiberglass composition?

I have a system 5 C model with blue metal tube. The reel seat is a lighter copper color with removable reel seat cap.
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archfly
Post 28 Sep 2019, 06:00 • #9 
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The fact that this thread has languished all these years implies no new information has come forth. The numbers must have meant something to someone at some time, but as that generation has faded, the rationale and meaning has been lost.

Besides, as they teach you in museum cataloging 101, any registration system is eventually doomed to failure. Unless someone discovers a long-lost ledger, or catalog to serve as a Rosetta Stone, we may never know. The likelihood of such a discovery declines as the years go by.
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bulldog1935
Post 28 Sep 2019, 11:13 • #10 
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or somebody buys up every System rod...
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ARReflections
Post 28 Sep 2019, 23:46 • #11 
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Was hoping I missed another thread somewhere else when bringing this one back from the grave or better yet catch the eye of a retired scientific angler employee who may have the decoder ring...
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bulldog1935
Post 29 Sep 2019, 08:08 • #12 
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All the s/n's I've photographed are A's, and the only tube I had was plastic.
It seems logical that later rods would be upgrading appearance with aluminum tubes - they were probably having a tough time against then-new graphite in fly shops.
I learned more about fishing (rigging) from the free magazine-size SA tutorial than from any other printed source.
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Heddonist
Post 29 Sep 2019, 10:05 • #13 
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If the SA marking system for their rods was anything like that used on their reels, good luck making sense out of it.

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Lunker75
Post 29 Sep 2019, 10:29 • #14 
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Is there a general date range? My understanding is that the glass System rods are early 1970s, but I don’t have a citation to back that up.
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bulldog1935
Post 29 Sep 2019, 12:02 • #15 
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the Fisher rods, 1970-79,
followed by System G graphite with machined aluminum ferrules.

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Lunker75
Post 29 Sep 2019, 12:15 • #16 
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Thank you.
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bulldog1935
Post 29 Sep 2019, 12:19 • #17 
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most welcome, friend
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