replacing original drag with carbotex

[spearo776]

hi repairers, have an older penn inter 30t with the older disc brake type of washer and have encountered an unreliable drag. I have plenty of carbotex sheet and wonder if I can chisel off the older material , sand back the plate to a smooth even surface then add the carbotex??
maybe have to add 2 as to get the required thickness.
also should I glue these to the plate the original was on?? or leave to rotate, may cause other problems if left to rotate I suspect.
have previously cleaned and cals greased the original, but lost a good tuna in excess of 300lb earlier this week , hence the drag overhaul.

[Bryan Young]

hi repairers, have an older penn inter 30t with the older disc brake type of washer and have encountered an unreliable drag. I have plenty of carbotex sheet and wonder if I can chisel off the older material , sand back the plate to a smooth even surface then add the carbotex??
maybe have to add 2 as to get the required thickness.
also should I glue these to the plate the original was on?? or leave to rotate, may cause other problems if left to rotate I suspect.
have previously cleaned and cals greased the original, but lost a good tuna in excess of 300lb earlier this week , hence the drag overhaul.

Are your drags the type that is glued on an aluminum plate or the one that has a floating round drag disk that sits between the reel drag plate and the pressure plate?

[spearo776]

glued on bryan. I think it will be fine if I add 2 washers to get required thickness and glue to plate, just more wanted to know if others had done something similar instead of buying a new drag assembly.