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 "slug": "fuji-vss-reel-seat",
 "name": "Fuji VSS spinning reel seat body: sizes 16 (13 and 15 mm bore) and 17",
 "kind": "hardware",
 "category": "Sports & outdoors",
 "group": "Reel seats",
 "year": null,
 "question": "What are the Fuji VSS reel seat bore and outside diameters?",
 "tags": [
  "fishing",
  "reel seat",
  "fuji",
  "vss",
  "rod building",
  "bore"
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  "fuji vss reel seat size",
  "vss16 inside diameter",
  "vss reel seat dimensions",
  "vssm16",
  "vssm17",
  "vss 1615"
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  "basis": "Size table of Fuji's US distributor (Mud Hole), product details; hoods and threads not published",
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   "length": null,
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  },
  "notes": [
   "The VSS is Fuji's vertical spinning reel seat; this page is the graphite body sold without hoods. The bore is the interface to the rod blank (plus arbor), the OD the interface to grips and winding checks.",
   "Size 16 comes in two bores: 13.0 mm and 15.0 mm (the '1615' body); size 17 has a 17.0 mm bore and a 20.0 mm body.",
   "Files: the body tube at the published OD, bore and length. Hood shape, nut OD and thread are not in the size table, so they are not drawn. True size, no tolerance added.",
   "Numbers are from the size table of Mud Hole, Fuji's US distributor (Fuji's own site was not reachable), the same basis as the other Fuji reel-seat pages."
  ],
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   "columns": [
    "size",
    "bore (ID) mm",
    "body OD mm",
    "length mm",
    "wall mm (from ID/OD)"
   ],
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    [
     "size 16",
     "13.0",
     "18.0",
     "120",
     "2.50"
    ],
    [
     "size 16, 15 mm bore",
     "15.0",
     "18.0",
     "120",
     "1.50"
    ],
    [
     "size 17",
     "17.0",
     "20.0",
     "120",
     "1.50"
    ]
   ]
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   "publisher": "Mud Hole Custom Tackle (Fuji US distributor)",
   "title": "Fuji VSS spinning seat, graphite body: size table",
   "url": "https://www.mudhole.com/Fuji-VSS-Spinning-Seat-Graphite-Body",
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   "q": "What is the bore of a Fuji VSS 16?",
   "a": "13.0 mm (VSSM16) or 15.0 mm (VSSM1615); both have an 18.0 mm body, 120 mm long."
  },
  {
   "q": "What is the bore of a Fuji VSS 17?",
   "a": "17.0 mm with a 20.0 mm body, 120 mm long."
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   "note": "Size 17: body tube Ø20 OD × Ø17 bore × 120 mm, axis on X (hoods, nut and thread not published, not modelled)"
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