Drag Grease on Felt Drag Washers?

[milkman]

Hi Alan & team,
just a question - does anyone use Drag Grease (ie. Calls, Daiwa 555 etc) on Spinning Reel Felt Washers?  Or is there something else that i should be doing to treat these washers before the go back on the spool instead?  Look forward to hearing back!  thanks MM

[franky]

Hello milkman,

I'm not sure what kind of felt washers you got.  If its the same white felt washers that I usually pull out from the diawa sealine 50sha reels, I would recommend changing to carbontex drag washers from Smooothdrag.

When I pull out the felt drag washers from the diawa sealines, they appear to have mold on them.  Kind of a blochy dark spotted appearence.    

Anyway, when I switched them out with carbontex and put cals grease on the carbontex washers, there was a nice increase in drag pressure compared to the white moldy felt washers.

You should call Dawn at Smoothdrag to see if she has a set of carbontex to fit your spinning reel.

Good luck.  

[Bryan Young]

I have switched all of my drag washers to greased carbon fiber, but if you must, I would use Cal's light to grease those felt washers.

[alantani]

yeah, felt is just going to stick.....   

[milkman]

Much appreciated guys for the feedback, yeah ok - well I may look at holding off greasing these stock standard White felt washers then....and when I upgrade to Carbontex, looking at giving them a coating then! 
thanks

[DanteV]

Love it here Alan! Most every question I have has already been asked.. and answered!

[alantani]

see, dante.  this is what happens when you miss staff meetings!   

[kmstorm64]

And if you can't find one that is exact, get one that is close and take a file to it before you grease, and make it fit (wear a dust mask so as not to breathe in the fibers).

[nelz]

As much as I love carbon fiber drags, I have not needed to change out the felt drag on my Daiwa SOL 3000. It still has plenty of power and remains smooth.

[Strewth]

Have some new white felt washers for a Stella 4000XG that I need to install. Is Cal's still the grease of choice for these? Tried to find some Cabontex, but had trouble finding the right size (Shimano parts RD9908 x 2 , RD16423 x 1)

[El Guapo]

if its oiled felt washers use a good oil.. if its greased use a teflon or good quality grease

preferably save up & try get it to someone (reel service guy) who can punch out a carbon sheet exact size of felt drag washers and install the carbon
if not locally available and purchase price too high.