bulldog1935

@Banned User

This Leonard BiMetal, made by Philbrook and Payne in the 1880s, is only worth $3000. (wish I could have gotten to those screws before someone else did)

In order to fix that reel properly, every part would need a 3-hour vinegar bath - as a start. The level of complete disassembly, attention to detail, then replacing parts that are beyond use would buy a couple of reels. Better than that, tell the customer, "sorry, this is beyond hope."

again with that? working on a reel that looks life that is theft - whatever parts you put into it will end up contaminated and corroded by the parts you left in

@Banned User Same red washer is on my Ryoga - it's corundum, and should be run dry. Swab red washer and mating surfaces with alcohol. Swap to brass hyperdrive gears from later Basara - note the difference in pinion teeth profile.

Looks like a fully sealed surf reel. My best friend has USA-made IRT spinning reel I have USA-made Seigler SGN lever-drag

@redmeansdistortion IOS factory and Hedgehog Studio make that hex shaft adapter that Daiwa used to sell as their own aftermarket part. https://www.hedgehog-studio.com/product/6208 It accepts Daiwa fixed handles made to thread directly into main gear (SLP Works, etc) and lets you use them on any hex-shaft reel. IOS also makes an adapter that lets you use Daiwa handles on Shimano On kingfish rod, this handle is 8-mm longer than the longest Shimano offers.

I posted 3 things. The Japanese offset grips begin at $150 with cork and go up with wood, rubber, or bakelite grasp. Of course the trick with anything in Japan is getting it across the big pond - e.g., the $8 Fuji reel seat - most of this stuff, not marketed to US, requires a business relationship with a broker. This is something I've been doing 20 years. The Chinese clone that's the subject of my OP is new in the market, and a good buy. Maybe you should search Vintage Champion Featherweight Rod Handle on ebay and go from there.

@Chris Catignani Fuji sells a version of that in Japan It's not quite a full-offset or even half-offset

@Eric 26 I've been amazed when I loaded my Steez spool charged with 12-lb Tatsu (or maybe JDM R18?) and stored for 5 years onto my other 34-mm Daiwas for test-casting. Memory is remarkably low and casts like a dream. The only better fluoro I've found is Toray X-thread, and I only use it in finesse sizes.

never liked feely - always empirical.

The elastic region is completely reversible - it's elastic response just like a rubber band. Fluorocarbon doesn't permanently stretch until it reaches the plastic strain zone (and it will unload with the same amount of elastic relaxation). Mono generates a similar stress-strain curve with up to 4% elastic stretch - that's 10' elastic stretch in 80 yds. PE braid has a very steep, short elastic zone (very low stretch) and quickly moves into reduction failure (at much higher stress - the curve is for fiber, braid weave also moves before failure and ulitimately, fibers are cutting each other - also UHMWPE fiber used in braid is previously work-hardened to higher strength).

You learn on a fly rod in the salt, mono floats, fluoro sinks - for ankle-deep grass, mono furled leader and fluoro tippet. Regarding visibility, mono absorbs UV, so it creates a UV shadow. Fluoro transmits UV, so no UV shadow. Fluoro leader on braid is to have some measure of shock tolerance. Fluoro has elastic stretch before it deforms to break (elastic limit = yield point) - braid goes right to reduction failure at its max load - no elastic stretch.

um, when they started getting sponsorships from PowerPro.

if you get a big fish with that, you'll get line dig and won't get off another cast.

If I fish this combo for bass, it will be endemic river bass in limestone headwaters - Texas Brook Trout. More likely, I'll toss tiny trout plugs in our cold tailwater. The rod is Aioushi UL glass, the grip I assembled from a blank with cork grasp The reel is a 75-y-o Langley Streamlite modified on a Japan bench. NK Maker cropped the width of the frame, spool, and level wind, down from 50 mm to 20 mm, to turn a 310KC into a 310XN for extra narrow. He builds 5.6 gears for these. The drum he added to the modified spool is shallow with only capacity to fit threadline braid. It's a direct-drive BFS pocket rocket, and I'm adding my Langley mag brake mod to make it backlash-proof down to 1/16 oz. NK Maker also rebuilds his bench XN Langleys as LHW conversion.

yes, jack it up and put an old one underneath

You clearly see the desirable result. The bad result, reverse cone, will cause problems and frustrate your son. I would consider setting him up with one of the better line-charges you show. I would also consider stripping the CarbonXT and see how it lays mono. If you get a similar result with mono, it definitely needs more spool shim If it gives a good mono result, fish it.

13Fishing rod warranty is also really good. This redfish ate my lure as I was lifting it out of the water at my knee. I over-reacted with a high-stick set at the same instant the redfish exploded. Rod exploded in torsion 1/3-down from the tip. (finished the trip with back-up rod and a great 3 days) When I called 13Fishing, asking about their discount replacement, they told me fishing break was warranty, and I had a new rod in 10 days.

@Stylez78 Yes, it really looks like you need another shim washer (on spindle below the spool) - - that's marginal reverse cone, and might likely pull-off wind knots when casting. Every reel has error in line management (what made me a Shimano worm-drive junkie for braid) - the deeper you stack line, the more the error adds up. I have this example of marginal hourglass on Tica's worm-drive reel that doesn't stack braid well, but has perfect line lay with 10-lb fluoro: The large-frame Ticas in my higher post on this page are IOS locomotive drive, which Tica does really well - even better, look at this small-frame result:

This is too cool, and have to show it off. Rec'd today, an extra-narrow+shallow-spool bench modification of Langley 310"XN" Streamlite, including cropped down spool and level wind, and gears improved to 5.6 - from the bench of NKmaker in Japan - don't know anything about him, but I have a web spook looking for me - he had 4 examples listed on Yahoo, and this was the only RHW (he also converts original RH Langley to LHW). Yes, this is going to get my mag brake mod... here's where this reel began, normal wide-spool Langley 310KC ............. and a LH-conversion 310XN from NK maker

Pretty sure I still haven't solicited advice on this thread. Here's the last redfish I caught on both BB-25 and fluoro in Nov 2018. The long rods were helpful keeping 1/4- and 3/8-oz jigheads above the skinny grass, as well as getting far away from hull slap. They're still useful for surf-lure and shore fishing. Still carry the 1/4-oz JH and maybe an MM/MH for channel slopes on a falling tide. Now in salt kayak, I mostly fish 1/8 oz on BFS, and get everything I need in 7' rods. Almost made up for Rattlesnake Bay with a 28" trout on Estes Flat. My round reels matched with short offset-grip rods are for river kayak. and the subject tackle on this thread specifically for wading limestone headwaters for endemic bass, and occasionally our tailwater for tailwater rainbows.

Yes, that seat is on my Lami Rogue River Special, and could never quite seat the rear of my BB-25, which fell off one day mid-cast - I had a back-up reel, but couldn't strike the 30" speckled trout I was sight-fishing. LP reels don't have the rear-foot problem. At best, that's a fractional offset. Fuji O and N grips, which accepted Fuji butt ferrules, e.g., Fenglass, Browning Silaflex, and Speed Stick, were half-offset. Bright River offered a recent run of the original Fuji NGH grip (all sold out). Reel feet can be offset in the frame to gain up to 7-mm offset - certainly everything you need on a small-frame reel with 30-mm spool. Not really fishing for an alternate solution here, especially with the perfection of a match like 4500C on Smith 66SPX. If anyone has the inkling, the Aioushi offset grips are a cost-effective alternative.

@little giant I cannot replace this IM6 Crowder E Series Lite - I've tried - compared to every other rod, I can count the fish increase.

@F14A-B also, IRT USA bench-built spinning reels sell NS Black Hole rods to match.