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[Rusty hooks]

Thanks for the info guys...this will be my first winding of JB spectra and I want to get it right...for what we encounter on the NW coast a topshot of 125 yds will be used 90% of the time...so the braid rarely gets used...but when it does I don't want it burying itself.  I'm an old school dacron braid guy and my grandfather had cotton braid which had to be unspooled and dryed after the season....I'm just coming up to speed with the new 16 strand lines and their responses...this season will be interesting, to say the least...new rod, reel, line, leader...now if I could just focus close enough to see what I'm doing. 

Thanks again...this site has given me the info to make some good decisions....

[fisher480]

Check out tension mate. The guy that makes them is a friend of one of my fishing partners. Very simple and durable. I have used 2lb to 65 lb Spectra and spooled all reels without any problems

[Rusty hooks]

I have looked high and low for a "tension mate"....the .com is a dead end...fishhead specialist doesn't have any online...

Is there any other place to take a look or contact info in Au.?

There's such a wide gap between something reasonable and an Omega....and the only in between winder at 1600 is driven by a drill??....something with an even, adjustable tension

[jonnou]

posting My first picks
I read in a post on this site that my method of winding on spectra was wrong. I ran it through a set of gloves or towel to get tension. The corect method is to put pressure on the spool. thought I could 'mcguyver it"
Half a packing cleat
230mm coach bolt
some square washers (just what i found first)
two nuts
Two minutes later i had a working prototype suffered a bit from start up so I added a peice of cardboard an d a rubbery sort of washer worked great



Bit of fun on a friday night
cheers Jon

[wallacewt]

maybe you could glue some c/f to the metal plates
a spring each end
cheers

[coastal_dan]

Bryan - Any updates with this project?  I know its old, but just curious.  Thanks.

[Bryan Young]

Well, this is what we have done....We took a used line winder and Jim modified it...and it was still cheaper than building our own.  So, my home built line winder project died.

[coastal_dan]

Haha, oh well.  Still got the same end result...Line on Reels.

[Keta]

Somehow I missed this thread.  Jerry Brown says 10# is all you need when spooling Spectra and so far it works for me.

[conchydong]

I found that unless you are winding professionally that the reel to reel method works great. I have a Penn 50tw that I use as a "slave" reel and wind line on to that using a moderate tension utilizing springs and Teflon washers on all thread stuck in a vice with the line spool. I then set the drag on the international to the desired  resistance and then wind from the international on to the primary  reel. It takes a little sweat and more than a few beers but it works great as you can take your time and level wind it perfectly..

[Tiddlerbasher]

Lee, I totally agree with you (and JB ) 10lbs is sufficient. Once you have taken the initial stretch out of spectra it has no more give. From my experiments, on my line winder, I found no difference (in spool capacity) when winding at 10 or 25lbs drag - except the motor did groan under the load

Conchydong - I use to use your method, of a slave reel, it works and its cheap - but very hard work. Pro line winders are not available this side of the pond and shops do not spool the line correctly. So I built my own. If you want some ideas have a look here.

http://alantani.com/index.php?topic=11452.msg110815#msg110815