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I've always wondered what dainty-size knobs are for. As long as the weight is small - and these are lighter than Daiwa tiny rubber I-knobs - even giant knobs make great finesse handles. (same spindle length, but titanium, same bearings, knob tubes are carbon) When you need power, you crank with your palm.

@F14A-B the right precision plier tips will work for a spanner, here removing a fly reel spool collar to flip A/R roller bearing. The Daiwa anodized knob covers scratch easily even with their spanner. a plastic tool, or drill a popsicle stick and glue-in toothpicks would solve that.

@F14A-B bearing hook, paper clip, small screwdriver - twist a bit and they pop out. If you're talking about round Daiwa knobs, the new knobs come with a small spanner.

hmmm IOS makes the part - a little red loctite, and SLP Works handle works on Stradic as far as using Shimano A knob on Daiwa S spindle, it takes adding an extra bearing or a bearing-size bushing. Shouldn't be news that these knobs interchange - all aftermarket knobs come with the plastic bushing ("collar") for Daiwa - leave it out for Shimano. .

@1984isNOW If you find that Fuji grip, you can use Bright River butt ferrules on a blank to build your own rod blade. https://brightliver.shop-pro.jp/?mode=srh&cid=660570%2C0&keyword=&x=17&y=10 8.5- to 14-mm ID https://brightliver.shop-pro.jp/?pid=126002529 low profile 5.5- to 8.3-mm ID https://brightliver.shop-pro.jp/?pid=126002529

@Eric 26 long-sold-out Robelson Resion grip made for Headhunters - think it's supposed to represent a dead trout - https://www.headhunters.jp/SHOP/killer-grip.html Resion grips are a tough find - like Megabass Pagani.

@1984isNOW You can, they sell butt ferrules by ID to match blank butt-OD The trick is knowing how to buy in Japan - I've used broker noppin.com for 18 years. Might be easier to buy butt ferrule and grip from Bright River (through broker) This is the major production shop for Japan Underground rods, and rolls most of the glass blanks (Tenryu builds the 4-axis carbon blanks). https://brightliver.shop-pro.jp/ Another vendor for Bright River https://matsuya-web.com/ Again, Smith and Bright river use different butt-ferrule diameter (12 mm vs. 9.4 mm) Smith grips are about $30 cheaper than Bright River, and the ferrule size probably builds a stronger rod. https://noppin.com/yahoos/search?translate=1&qand=smith+super+strike+rod (you can improve Yahoo search results by copying Japanese ideograms and searching those) If you Contact Masamichi at noppin to talk to yahoo vendor baronfuente, he can probably get you both Smith grip and the Smith ID ferrule size you need. https://noppin.com/yahoos/detail/b1171055884 https://noppin.com/yahoos/detail/h1170801007 https://noppin.com/yahoos/detail/n1172161738 etc. the seller has a brick and mortar shop, I've just never found a link for it. Different brick shop with the grips probably has the ferrules, also. https://noppin.com/yahoos/detail/t1173493794 Register at noppin, and use Contact Board - works like a pm train, and Masamichi has perfect English. Send him links for what you want and get a dialogue going. Note Japan offset grips are made for Isuzu reel foot - they fit Ambassadeur foot better if you add the reel seat shim: https://noppin.com/yahoos/detail/j1173671236 (of course you can make your own shim) I consider Masamichi at noppin a friend - both for me and others, he's found stock, answered questions we never could get answered from this side of the pond, and he baby-sat a custom rolled-from-scratch-on-order S-glass inshore fly rod for me. A broker opens up the 99% rest of Japan that doesn't market direct to US. Broker fee is about 6%, which he more than earns (also pay Japan tax and domestic post to noppin), then you pay UPS courier from his storage to you. If you decide to pursue this, we can take it to pm.

@1984isNOW Smith Super Strike FO-56 They sell both grip + rod blade, and sell grips and rod blades separately. (I buy straight grips, and one person I know who bought a pistol grip said it was too small for his hands.) Offset grip puts the tall frame on round reels in comfortable thumb position There's a "Japan Underground" for round reels, offset grips with separate rod blades that emulate Fenwick Champion (Phillipson Bass Tamer, etc.) of the '60-'70s and Fuji grip (Lew's Speed Stick, etc) of the '70s-'80s. Smith and Glass Eye use 12-mm butt-ferrule dia., the rest use Fuji-std. 9.4-mm butt ferrule. The grips also come with 3/8" (9.6 mm) vise collet that lets you use vintage US-std. rod blades. The shops that sell this limited-run tackle concentrate on handmade wood plugs. The short rods, 5' to 6' (a few shorter, a few longer) fit right in my river kayak niche, finesse to frogger. The limited edition tackle goes from practical to both intentionally silly (AHPL) or ornate, such as Megabass Pagani Finding what you want means keeping up with limited production runs, or paying Yahoo collector and ebay scalper prices, though low-use rod blades re-sell for fair Yahoo prices. Much of it sells out in pre-release reservation and lottery sales. The limited-run bench reels are made by Isuzu, Ebisu, and Doryu, and the rods match well with Ambassadeur if you like to bench-tinker.

@1984isNOW When you swap spools on any reel, but especially Daiwa, you should open up the spindle tension (Zero Adjust) first thing. Last thing, after replacing spool and closing the latch, you re-set the zero spindle position. This prevents damaging the latch, especially swapping to different spools, because spindle widths vary. Daiwa used to be big on offering swap-in spools, and the options were so good, the aftermarket got better at Daiwa aftermarket spools than Daiwa. Now, SSAir with SS brake, Daiwa won't even sell a spare spool. On both SSAir and new Steez, Daiwa removed the Zero Adjust, though a few aftermarket spools for new Steez are showing up now.

Also '22 Zillion HD comes with MagZ spool, '21 Zillion SVTW comes with SV Boost spool. MagZ has a distance edge casting heavy weights, SV has a light-lure distance edge. Yes to the rest.

@1984isNOW - on Express website - the size is 685 silicon nitride bearing, and search shows 6 vendors. Recommendation is run these dry, and clean them in denatured alcohol before you use them. Same size fits my best 4500C bench result, and last spring, this reel was throwing 3 g microjig to surface slashes 150' out.

@F14A-B sounds good - but we want to see it

hideous and you're looking at the wrong thing form follows function

Lew's has a special place in Texas, because their service used to answer the phone in Dallas and mail out handfuls of parts gratis. When Lew's stopped supporting the original BB-1, Roy's Bait & Tackle in Corpus bought up the parts stores and continued to support them another 15 years. ...and watch that y'all stuff...

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He doesn't know how to set up his reel. I've kept 2 Super Duty G, sold Team Pro SP and Tournament Pro (replaced both with Daiwa). Super Duty linear mag is an astounding distance reel, down to 1/8 oz. My older reel has spent 7 years in the salt with only replacing the brake magnets. It backlashed Once, but that was a single line wrap on the rod tip. I also paid $130 for my first new SD (ebay vendor), and $145 for the 2nd (Lew's close-out).

My 4600C3 ended up in PE#2 (45-lb) frogger niche, but still set my mag brake casting 3 g. I would consider Avail 5-mm deep UC spool (photo is 6500CS Rocket in surf-lure, 1/4 to 1 oz). AMO spool is notably lighter, but 3-mm deep limits you to PE#1, equivalent dia to 4-lb mono. Since I swapped to the deeper Avail spool above, I have this 4500/4600C3 AMO spool set aside. If anyone wants to tinker the AMO spool, I'll sell it cheap. Aftermarket parts slick the LW and reduce weight/inertia - alloy LW rider also includes TiN line-guide coating for fishing braid. Here's JunSonada's priority list for tuning these reels: https://japantackle.com/Tackle_topics/abu_tuneup.htm Mike's Reel Repair in BC sells LW upgrade kits, with option for alloy rider and zirconia pawl https://www.mikesreelrepair.com/reel-tuning-upgrades/wormshaft-upgrades/

Endurance means a few things - mechanical, reliable, long production run - but enduring can also be emotional. A '77 4500C that's been fished since '77 can be tuned to do everything a new "big 2" low profile reel can do. A thread on TT asked why no aftermarket parts are currently made for OG Daiwa - it's simply not enduring, and was made to be fished 5 years and replaced.

oops - assumed 15-lb you were talking about spinning. - yes I never use ligher than 20-lb 832 on b/c (equiv to PE#2) , and then I back deep spools with 20 to 25 yds of 20- to 25-lb mono - no dig The difference is using shallow braid spools (BFS mod), where you can fish 10-lb 832 (PE#1) without line dig. (equiv diameter is 4-b mono) BFS-package reels with increased LW pitch, Silver Wolf, Daiwa Air, will let you fish even smller, down to PE#0.4, here PE#0.6 - no dig.

I suspect it's digging at either end of the spool. This is about spool shimming. Best example I can show you is a surf spool made for PE#1.5 (same basic diameter as your line, but 30-lb breaking strength in X-braid). I used factory shim and went through a couple of wind-a-little and measure to get the line evenly distributed over the spool lay. Here's the (big) white factory shim washer added to the spindle stack, and the perfect finished result, which won't dig. This is a big Tica, and I had to call Tica USA to order the part. Especially if your line is digging at the bottom of the spool, you need a shim to move the spool up. Shimano reels come with a stack of half-mm and 1-mm shim washers. I've had to add them when swapping in new spools to get line lay calibrated. This is much smaller braid, PE#0.6 (C3000MHG w/ 3000S spool)

Isuzu drive-by

swapping drag washers is easy. Drag set should be 1/4 of weakest link, line or leader test, or rod max line rating. e.g., 10-lb leader gets 2-1/2 lbs drag set, and resin/fiber drag washers shine here. Three- to 4-lbs drag set for 12- to 16-lb leader is just right for carbontex. Any good vendor can match carbontex washers for your reel, e.g., HPR Bearings on ebay. My surf reels need 7- to 8-lbs drag, and get dry, blue corundum drag washers.

Hyperdrive in SLPW-Z is something you won't notice until you fish next to '21-Z SVTW - then you notice the extra-smooth drive right away. I would be tempted by that AMO spool, as well. But I already had a Ray's SV waiting for mine. 3-mm-deep Ray's is exactly right for PE#1.2 in my target niche. The 5-mm AMO spool might be perfect for 10-lb mono or 30-lb braid. To me, SLPW-Z sold without spool and handle is a bonus, because I'd swap both, anyway.

I was zinging this one night off a lighted bulkhead on the ICW in a beating 30-kt crosswind. Caught a gang of seatrout. Without line feathering, wouldn't have fished at all, just wound line. With good manual bail technique, your fingertips should be there to feather every cast. It gives a result similar to thumbing B/C spool, and eliminates every complaint about spinning tackle (including runaway line).

Only dry-rotted prewar cane (probably stored in someone's attic) that a noted cane rod restorer had refinished and shouldn't have (I got a refund). A shame, too, it was a rare beauty (8' 3-pc H-I Queen w/ fish logo). and yes, for a rod to break in a cast, it must have some kind of pre-existing terminal damage.