Reel Repair by Alan Tani

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Hi.

Quote from: foakes on Today at 12:08:06 AMEverything packed and ready to ship tomorrow, Steve —-

Included screw, bail spring, bail, and tape for your DQ 5001.

Best, Fred

Thanks Fred, I really appreciate it.

I think we are going in circles here.  It is kind of hard to do this in a thread-  feel free to join us at the weekly Zoom(s) video conference this Saturday-  I should be at the AM, and maybe the PM too. Anyone else interested- it is open to all members- unstructured and usually fun:

https://alantani.com/index.php/topic,31840.0.html

But in a nutshell:

Wrapping tighter than limit  of elasticity will not store any more tension in the line, it will just make it elongate, which could decrease tension on your arbor knot, plus weakening the braid from elongation plus compression fractures across the woven braid fibers.

For normal fishing I would guess not to go beyond 10% of the stated line class.  You are not going to be rewinding any tighter when you are actually fishing with it.  The cow tuna chasers are probably weakening the line a little with their crazy tight fills, but that is probably a worthwhile tradeoff to avoid having the line dig in on a blistering run at 30 lbs of drag.
 

And..

The arbor knot grips by friction against the spool.  The friction comes from whatever grip you get from orignally cinching the knot down tight plus whatever additional cinching that is coming via the tension from the standing end.

Once there are enough wraps, the tension from pulling on the end of the line won't make it to the arbor knot. so we just have the stored energy to make tension- not much of that available with braid. So the arbor knot is not gripping as tightly once the spool gets filled.

Nylon will stretch as you cinch it down- storing energy - but braid not so much- sort of like wrapping a rubber band vs. soft wire tightly around the arbor (an exaggeration to make my point).

So testing with just an arbor knot and no spool fill is always going to grip better at the arbor than a filled spool.

On a fuller spool, the bottom wraps against the arbor has a lower COF than the rest of the fill against the bottom wraps, so the whole thing is going to spin eventually.  The goal is to get enough friction in place on the bottom layer to make this a moot point.  Which I think might be a rewording of you were saying.


-J

Welcome Mike from the SoCal Inland Empire! - john

Steve,

We are fully booked. If something changes I will let you know.

Nick

Nick,

Is there an open spot on the trip?

I have a friend who "may" be interested.

Thanks,

Steve

I do not know all the details of this story, other than it was horrible.

All I know is since it happened I started paying a lot more attention of emergency exits on any boat I spend the night on.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/captain-of-dive-boat-conception-faces-sentencing-for-the-deaths-of-34-onboard/

Wow 

Too bad quality Spectra grade line winders are so expensive.