Fishing a Skeena trib this past fall, I left my rods outside the wall tent one night, leaving them rigged up and ready to fish the next day. It rained really hard all that night and really cooled down, soaking the gear, and changing our plans for fishing, meaning breaking rods apart to move. On this one rod, a NRX spey rod, I could not get the two tops sections apart, being very thin sections, and a very high end graphite rod, I didn't want to go crazy, but I tried everything possible and finally gave up, figuring with a change in temp, drying out, or some time fishing/flexing, it would pull apart. Several fishing days later, no go. Rod came home with the top 2 sections stuck together. Back home, I searched the web for ideas and tried every single tip or trick, out there I could find, all with absolutely no luck. Several weeks later, almost at the point of sending the rod back to Loomis for help, I got a tip, that I was told, they do at the G. Loomis factory in the States, to pull apart rods they get back in this condition. An easy tip, and does it work well! Simply take an old bicycle inner tube, and cut into two smaller pieces, twist a piece on each end of the rod near the stuck ferrule, but being careful not to wrap over any line guides . Grab the inner tubes, and with the traction they provide, just twist the rod sections in opposite directions,......voila, rod apart!
Hope this simple tip helps someone who finds themselves in the same situation.
Al P.