Avet HX 4.2 Single Speed Enhancement

[Dr. Jekyll - AKA MeL B]

greasing the drag washers is highly recommended, of course with cal's grease...love my mxj and waiting for the sx...oooops removing spool bearings shields also a must if you'll do distance casting... tight lines.

[Keta]

15ibs is a far cry from the 22@ strike 28max as advertised......

Your HX should do 22lbs at strike, mine do.  Anything over that and you will dammage the pinion bearing.

[Tarponjack]

Thanks Again,

I'm fully confident that this will do the job.
I plan on using 50-60lb braid strike set at 17lbs, I'll check the drag at max to see what I get at that strike setting.

All I need is a rod that can do the job

[Tarponjack]

Well, sent the reel for spooling and it has problems right out of the box

The handle turns, the spool doesn't move.
I didn't do anything to the reel, just sent it out after getting it, off to a bad start.....

So I sent it to Avet, and bought a Penn 16VSX..

[alantani]

sorry to hear that.  avet makes a prettty good reel.  i'm sure they'll straighten it out. 

[forrest]

 I have one and about 14 to 15lb at strike is all it will do without handle bind, 22lb isnt an option, sorry

[day0ne]

I have one and about 14 to 15lb at strike is all it will do without handle bind, 22lb isnt an option, sorry

An HX? That sounds more like a JX/LX. If it is indeed an HX, Avet needs to have a look at it

[Tarponjack]

The 15lb sounds consistent with many, but others get 22lbs, I would prefer to err on the side of caution.

I didn't know that lever drag reels could be this finicky..

Someone should start a   " Do's and Don't " thread about the use of lever drag reels

[day0ne]

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I didn't know that lever drag reels could be this finicky..

I've never found them to be finicky and I have over 30 of them (TLD's, Avet's, Accurates, etc). Most have a very simple design. That is why I said that something seemed to be wrong if an HX started binding at 15 lbs. Possibly a bad bearing