Reel Repair by Alan Tani

This looks like it will catch a few more fish!

Quote from: Keta on April 21, 2025, 01:53:02 PMDouble uni, tested on large tuna. 

Tying or splicing a loop in the hollow and tying a loop in the solid then connecting them with a double or triple catspaw is strong and i use the L2L for my wind-on topshots, tested up to a 338# bluefin.

Jerry brown would slide solid into the hollow several feet and tie a overhand knot ehere the solid interd the hollow.

I fished 50lb solid to 80lb GB hollow on my leader for many years and tried many different knots, even glue all worked as well as expected, except the glueing was not great, the solid is too thin.   Here guys sew solid to solid which works pretty good.

The issue here is always casting a knot though the guides.

Quote from: Nigel R on April 21, 2025, 03:51:48 PMThe new bearing will have metal shields as opposed to rubber seals, so wonder if this will make it anymore resilient!

The sheilds have little/no effect one way or the other.  There are many wise folks on the forum here that actually ditch the sheilds when doing service.  The whole thing you are experiencing (as Keta Lee pointed out) and a common failure point on many lever drags regardless of brand, is that the pinion bearing really is not happy having a lot of side load on it.  Countless other threads here to discuss the engineering symantics; I'm not going to bore you with that but as others have said change out your pinion bearing and all will most likely be fine. - john

A dynamometer or "dyno" is a device for simultaneously measuring the torque and rotational speed (RPM) of an engine, motor or other rotating prime mover so that its instantaneous power may be calculated and usually displayed by the dynamometer itself as kW or bhp. I'm not sure what you are referring to, maybe a scale.

Quote from: pjstevko on April 21, 2025, 10:30:13 PM

Quote from: Keta on April 21, 2025, 09:52:23 PMHow strong is a Bimini?  That would be the weak link on a L2L.
 I quit using glue over 20 years ago..

I always heard a Bimini was a 100% knot....

Only if tied correctly. Bimini's are very easy to tie incorrectly, and very hard to tie correctly. In fact, I read somewhere that most are tied incorrectly.

JB is the the same price for all colors, including metered.

Quote from: boon on Today at 03:50:08 AMOk maybe a silly question but why would you need to do this? Just spool with straight hollowcore?

1. If u get braid tangles/birdnest/damaged line you can add on top of your existing spool of line.  I even use a section of hollow to splice solid braid together.  Very economical.

2.  Adding metered braid (the 100ft color change kind).  The stuff (even the solid braid) is expensive and you only need one set of colors ie 500ft.

Any possibility they used a cheap bearing when they replaced it? The pinion bearings go through a very hard time, a low quality bearing will fail really fast.

Ok maybe a silly question but why would you need to do this? Just spool with straight hollowcore?

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Picked up this red, white, and blue combo. 7'Cabela's MH Whuppin Stik and a Centron 4000. I'd never heard of these reels until I serviced a friend's Centron 2000 a while back.