I was on MysticParts site and was looking at the Battle 2 spinning reels. There is a video from Penn at the bottom of the reel page. The Penn representative clearly says that Penn uses Penn Blue Grease on the HT 100 washers in their spinners. I haven't been able to find out what they use on their conventional reels. He also stated that all Penn HT100 drags are greased now. I wonder what they use on the conventional reels.
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I just searched the Penn reels site and they still show the Battle. They haven't updated to Battle II yet. They mention HT100 but nothing else. Curious. The guy in the video I previously mentioned was discussing the Battle II. He outlined the "Improvements" over the original Battle. Greased HT100 was one of them.
Penn uses that grease in all of their reels. They have found that it has the best performance for the HT-100 drags. According to Penn themselves. It works great in the spinning reels and I use it on the drags also.
The drag washers in the new Battle are now keyed like the Conflict reels. It's a much better system.
i sure hope this works out for them. maybe they have a pure teflon grease that is colored blue! :-\
Personally I have been very careful to keep the petroleum-based Penn Blue grease off of the HT-100 or DuraDrag material. I have seen degradation on drag washers exposed to standard greases.
Quote from: alantani on July 18, 2014, 12:45:03 AM
i sure hope this works out for them. maybe they have a pur teflon grease that is colored blue! :-\
Nope, the gentleman said they use regular Penn Blue grease and they use it on all their HT 100 drags in their spinning reels. He was sure to specify "Spinning reels"
Quote from: handi2 on July 17, 2014, 09:44:49 PM
Penn uses that grease in all of their reels. They have found that it has the best performance for the HT-100 drags. According to Penn themselves. It works great in the spinning reels and I use it on the drags also.
Oh, use Penn blue grease also. This is the first time I heard of Penn greasing drags from the factory. I also never heard of a non-Teflon grease used on drags period. I use Penn inside the reel and Cals on the drag washers.
I think I would stick to that method John. I keep Penn Blue on hand like I do my beer, but I don't use it on drags. ;)
I was thinking of trying it in my beer, but I thought better of it... (Only kidding).
Quote from: johnachak on July 19, 2014, 12:06:41 AM
I was thinking of trying it in my beer, but I thought better of it...
;D ;D
Quote from: Tightlines666 on July 18, 2014, 01:05:28 AM
Personally I have been very careful to keep the petroleum-based Penn Blue grease off of the HT-100 or DuraDrag material. I have seen degradation on drag washers exposed to standard greases.
I really don't know how this is going to work out of Penn either and know nothing more than anyone else on this topic but one observation is that Penn feels their grease works fine on their HT-100 material. We know this is carbon fiber but know nothing of how it is put together etc to keep it all together... Hopefully they have done their homework on this one and it works over time.
generally, the spinning reels in question don't experience long runs that generate serious heat so conceivably anything would work as long as the grease did not attack the washer material.
dunno ???
Just to clarify I use it on the small spinning reels only..! All of Penn's spinning reels I service have their blue grease on the drags. From the Torque and down...
I wonder when they started this practice. The newest spinners I have done are my Slammers and they were all dry HT100 drags. The spinners I service for others are almost entirely the Z series mostly 704's, 710's and &712's.
Quote from: johnachak on July 31, 2014, 01:26:02 PM
I wonder when they started this practice. The newest spinners I have done are my Slammers and they were all dry HT100 drags. The spinners I service for others are almost entirely the Z series mostly 704's, 710's and &712's.
This is very recent.
I'll be finding out soon how It works. I am servicing my nephew's Penn Fierce. I got the HT100 drag upgrade kit. I'll try the Penn blue on those washers. We'll see what he thinks.
I had a brand new Penn Conflict come in for a pre use corrosion package I do to all reels and sure enough just like all the other new Penn reels it was greased everywhere with the light blue grease. The drags, clicker and spring under the spool, handle shaft joint, on top and around the AR assembly, under the reels bottom cover, and everywhere else was greased. Good Job Penn..!!
Quote from: handi2 on July 31, 2014, 11:12:09 PM
I had a brand new Penn Conflict come in for a pre use corrosion package I do to all reels and sure enough just like all the other new Penn reels it was greased everywhere with the light blue grease. The drags, clicker and spring under the spool, handle shaft joint, on top and around the AR assembly, under the reels bottom cover, and everywhere else was greased. Good Job Penn..!!
I think we can thank Alan Tani for that, tbh. He influenced Okuma to start really pre-servicing their reels and that positive buzz has others following. :)
Alan has to have had a positive effect. Many new reels including Penns I saw the last few years had barely a brushstroke of grease. As I posted in another thread I had on a 920, I saw only a tiny spot of grease inside the entire reel. Years ago I heard that you need to open up and grease a new reel. I thought they were nuts until I opened up a new reel I bought and I was shocked at how little lube was in there.
nothing would change until consumers started demanding change. it's been slow, but we are winning! ;D
Not sure what is inside my Torque 7 spinner. Fishes good so I have not opened it.
When did you get the torque?
I ordered it just before I got the 950 from you. It was on order for about 3 months. If I had gotten the 950 sooner I never would have ordered it but the 950 has a nice home on a one piece 11' Lamiglas surf rod. I need to build a rod for the 850 and keep a wire rig on it for tossing bait to king macs and keep the torque rigged for mangos.
I have a Torque 7 and yes it was well greased inside.