bulldog1935

that's line speed (angular velocity), and the whole point of a long rod

@Big Hands Intentional short rod (6'4' OL) intended for close sight fishing (to big fish - redfish) if you had that same rod blade in a single-hand grip, and tackling the same size fish, your single grip hand is in torsion. With the 2-hand grip, you can push on the rod butt with your rod-butt hand to reduce the grip torsion, and also pull the rod with both hands to lift and horse the fish.

I come from really old school, with fly rod and baitcaster in left arm, and spinning rod in right arm. With spinning cast, wrist snap is rewarded with extra distance. With fly rod, wrist snap is tailing loop wind knot, and with baitcast, wrist snap is start-up backlash. If you have any degree of ambidextrous, try casting bait with your other arm.

Shakespeare and Pflueger were literally never out of court between 1910 and 1966, when Shakespeare bought Pflueger. Hardy was also litigious in US, and sued Pflueger for copying their horseshoe latch, stopping production of 1st model Gem in 1935, and sued Heddon, stopping production of Heddon Imperial in 1928, which was a reverse-engineered St. George. Pflueger's better lawyers beat Hardy over Medalist similarities to St. George

I also fished steelhead rods inshore for two decades, both from drifting power boat, and kayak. On the power boat, they have the reach advantage of getting far ahead of hull slap. On the kayak, they help lift 3/8-oz JH above the shallow grass. For that, though, they're made obsolete by BFS and 1/8-oz JH.

hmmm (why it's called Show your Stuff)

While that's true, somebody also had to fill out the CN-23 form for Customs declaration to calculate the duty before they paid it - that takes staffing and time (brokerage). This is something they never had to do before on deminimus packages - on big shipments, the buyers hired their own import customs brokers. If you're able to pre-pay the duty and brokerage online during transit, you save additional COD charge, which is $15-20.

If the items cost more than $308 in USM, you're ahead of the game - same if they're not available in US market. Curious part is whether you had the option to pre-pay the duty + brokerage while the shipment was still in Japan and save $15 COD fee.

Interesting how parallel thread on TT forum has a dearth of negative assertions. I think @Eric 26 was right.

@newapti5 Ray's gets "cheapened" on some forums, but they copied KTF Kahen spool, who invented SV inductor and let Daiwa copy it. But Ray's went one better and invented their tapered SV inductor, which functions like SV Boost. I treat all my Ray's (and KTF) spools as general purpose for the thicker end of threadline braid.

I can definitely see how people want 36-mm spool for heavy niches. For me, I'm boned up on 37-mm mid-frame Ambassadeur bench mods, and 34-mm Daiwa floating spool, Steez, Zillion, and Ryoga 100. The 34-mm Daiwas are more versatile. That said, Ray's Studio makes a 1514 honeycomb SV braid spool that fits the Zillion 150. https://www.ebay.com/itm/112859854086

Worth noting that both Steez and Zillion have stainless pinion gears in all current models.

A/R roller bearings, especially Shimano's, get misrepresented on this forum, especially by AI members. Proper lube viscosity is critical in their proper function. Certainly in the heat, the wrong lube can become too thin and cause A/R to malfunction, both binding in wind, and not binding in pay.

no offense, since it's a likely a press fit with a detente stretch, that might pop the superglue joint - likely how the crack formed to begin with. I'd glue it in place with the smallest dab of Pink Zap CA+ - it wets everything it can flow to. Also, triple ziploc the CA - I use it to wet allbright leader knots, and get 2 years from 1/4 oz

ereplacementparts lists the part as discontinued, and none turn up in ebay or even google search. Might register on Tackle Tour forum and ask there.