avet hx single

[forrest]

 Hello everyone, about a year ago I bought an avet hx single, avet says 22#at strike and 28#at full. well mine at 14#handle got a little stiff full was around 20#, handle real stiff, got mad and just put it away for about a year,  also this reel has never been used, got bored up here in the snow last week and called dawn and ordered a 2 pinon bearings, changed the pinon bearing and the reel is workable at 14#strike with 20#full but thats it any more and its coming apart. Avet must think if you can crank the handle at all, hey its good. 289$ lesson learned.

[kamuwela]

 id say you have a bad right side plate bearing. the more you ramp the drag up the harder to crank. sounds crazy being the reel is new.

[alantani]

without a thrust bearing underneath the right main side plate bearing, that is all you will ever be able to achieve.  and there is not enough room for a thrust bearing.   

[forrest]

Just so everyone knows, pionon bearing is 6mm 17mm 6mm same as raptor hx and iam guessing the rest of the hx line, good deal on new reel.

[SoCalAngler]

Alan why could you not get a thrust/angular contact bearing in that size for a total replacment of the stock pinion bearing? This is what I have thought about for my JX 6/3 and the size in inches I have for the pinion bearing is .250 x .625 x .195