Tube Fly Tool

Grays Tube Fly Adaptor

The photograph above shows the new Grays Tube Fly Adapter fitted to a standard Regal fly tying vice and holding a 35mm Needle Tube, diameter 1.5mm, ready to be dressed.

The Grays Tube Fly Tool is now available from  Grays of Kilsyth.

Very similar in design and operation to the HMH Starter Tube Tool, this Tube Fly Tool or Adaptor 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 (10mm needle tubes can also be secured with the aid of a pin or needle). 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.

Using Grays Tube Fly Adapter

Grays tube fly adaptor will hold a wide range of tubes. Metal tubes may be clamped very simply and securely in the tube tool. The photograph below shows a 35mm long 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.

To give more access and room to dress the body of a very short tube, say less than 10mm in length, a pin or sewing needle of suitable diameter may be used to help secure the tube, as shown below. If using this method (which is only recommended for very short tubes of 10 mm or less), care should be taken not to damage the tube's plastic liner, keeping it clear of the securing ring.

Plastic tubes of varying diameter may also be held in the tube adapter with the aid of one of the three longer pins supplied for the purpose, as shown below.

The new Grays Tube Fly Tool is now available from Grays of Kilsyth supplied with three pins and  25 assorted Needle Tubes at a cost of £19.99.

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