Daiwa Saltiga 30HA bearingsizes.

[Drisse]

I got a couple of Daiwa Saltiga 30HA in for repair and service. I know that they have MagSeal bearings and some of the reels have broken bearings that needs to be replaced. I thought I could replace them with regular SS bearings, but some of the MagSeal bearings seem to have odd sizes. I got the following measurements with a digital caliper. Inner x outer x width (mm)

Driveshaft bottom: 5x9x3mm
Pinion: 9,93x15x4mm without the plastic bushing on the inner race 9,16x15x4mm with plastic bushing
Driveshaft: 7,91x14x4mm
Left spoolbearing in sideplate:4x11x4mm
Right spoolbearing: 6x12x4mm

So the pinion and driveshaftbearing are odd sizes or could 10x15x4mm and skip the plastic bushing work for the pinion ? Is 7,91x14x4mm supposed to be 8x14x4mm ? Normally with the digital caliper I get for ex. 7,96 or higher when its 8mm.

Any ideas ? 

[alantani]

it's the calipers.  the same thing happens with mine.  the inside dimensions are never quite right.  metric bearing are almost always in whole millimeters, and rarely half. 

[ReelClean]

I recently finished a 300 Lexa, had to destroy the plastic bush to get the bearing out.  The recess is standard size, but the shaft is undersized by a poofteenth such that a standard bearing doesn't fit.  I can only assume that they size the spool shaft for one of their odd sized magbearings so they can commonize the shaft/spools over several models.  You have to replace the collar otherwise it will not fit the shaft unfortunately.

[Drisse]

Thanks Alan 🙂

[Drisse]

Thanks for info ReelClean