I think you guys are better off doing the no question asked warrenty service from loomis.
2 day turn around and $40 including shiping and return tube along with a new pole and sock and a whole new warrenty.
Not to start anything Chaser but you must have been fishing in the dark, when you think a Loomis fishes like a broomstick I mean look at the rating Lamiglas puts on their rods.
10-35 lb line 1-3 oz now thats a broom stick to me.