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In the case of SV spools, the moving inductor mechanism adds about 3 g to a spool, and the rotating mass you added also adds to the 4 g. If you're sticking to casting BFS light weight, I can recommend Roro bearings, which are relatively inexpensive and even better, they ship by post from Hong Kong. In cast distance trials with Daiwa's shielded microbearings, KTF/IXA double (high-load) BFS bearings, Roro has about a 10% edge over the 2nd-best KTF.

Any edition of this is going to be Greatly abridged - these and Many others were boated on the reel above, going strong into its 4th year.

they'll have spec rigs on a card display on their pegboard, which are cheap, anyway. Same thing you can do with a spec rig, you can do with a fly rod, well, 15-s countdown on the sinking shooting head, rod under armpit, and two-hand Chernobyl strip, but it gets the same result. In addition to smacks, I've caught kings, blues, jacks, tripletail this way, and of course, inshore grand slam. @jdr99a - already found a jetty for you: https://ctparks.com/parks/rocky-neck-state-park

I got one for you Ray's Studio SV spool, Momo zero adjust, ZPI Pentagram star drag, Avail STi2 handle.

KKR also makes an SV spool (moving inductor) for Daiwa. An FFR member who has tried it and reported on Another Spin page really likes it - it solves the start-up jerk problem that fixed-inductor Daiwa BFS spools like AMO and Roro can't fix. The big difference though is the weight - KKR SV spool (also Ray's SV spool) double the weight of Roro and AMO spools (4 g) - the latter are an advantage casting the lightest weights to the greatest distance, and they should be reserved for those niches.

you're shopping on the wrong continent. and I still think oak pollen is the cause of all the recent contrary on BR - maybe a Claratin? I tried to check my Steez price on my Asian Portal account, but they're down for website facelift.

I've been rolling Allbright knots for 45 years of fly-line-to-backing. One day in the surf, kept hearing a click toward the end of my cast - it was my backing knot - I was shooting the full 110' fly line + 30' of backing. For braid to leader, Improved Allbright was a no-brainer for me. If you tighten the knot incorrectly, you can damage braid FEP coating. The algorithm to tighten it correctly begins with remembering the direction you wrapped the loops. After first snugging all four lines, begin tightening the braid tag while you roll the loops in the same direction you wrapped them. Before it's completely tight, pull the leader tag to draw the leader bend into the loops. Finish-tighten the braid tag, and final tighten by pulling the standing lines. I always wet my finished knot with pink-label Zap CA+ To show how clean this knot, that's a small tip guide in the photo.

@Gera what you lose with Steez is a full ounce of weight in the forged magnesium frame. The only place I can tell the weight difference is on a long 73-g salt finesse rod.

show and tell for @ol'crickety Along the way, I sold a spinning reel collection that included these: Quick Junior, Quick Standard (never could score the earlier half-bail version) familiar-shape Quick Finessa, though this is a big surf- or jetty-size reel For everyone who mentioned Cardinal, this was their origin - Abu acquired Thommen Record, also where they gained Record TM they instead used on direct-drive baitcaster. Thommen had a good drag, along with the first A/R on a spinning reel, a friction washer clutch that engaged by rotating the knurled ring on the handle shaft. The Alabama gentleman who bought my Thommen was planning on taking it bass fishing.

Gadabout Gaddis, Jim Thomas Outdoors (Texas Sportsman, not the current YouTube) - assuming the context is history and early influences. I decided fly rod after watching aerial view of a 100' cast on Jim Thomas. In the OP's context, spinning reels brought fishing to blue collar masses after WWII - first time they ever had disposable income and the leisure time to take advantage of it. Between the wars, fishing belonged to the professional class (Hemingway's dad), and before WWI, fishing was the realm of the wealthy. The huge manufacturing base that came out of WWII also needed products to build, and a market to sell to, and spinning tackle plugged right in. (Glass rods came out of aircraft radar-dome production) If you were going to recommend tackle to a television audience in the 60s, spinning was the no-brainer, because everybody could go fishing with little ramp time needed to work on casting technique. The only really good baitcaster was Ambassadeur, introduced in 1954. By the 60s, Mitchell 300 was in most fishers' quiver (or top of want list), and Cabelas was the sole importer for DAM Quick reels. Backing up a decade, here's the Ward's catalog from 1951, when even monofilament was newfangled. The flip bail on that Shakespeare infringed on Hardy's 1932 Altex patent, but Shakespeare didn't care - so sue me. The Bache Brown Mastereel was built by Airex under license from French Luxor to build their design in US - $22.50 in 1951 was $270 in today's money. This was the only '51 catalog page of spinning reels, but there were 5 catalog pages of direct-drive baitcasters.

@TnRiver46 The Japanese still bench-make direct drive reels, which they call revolvers. They point out the rush of catching a bass on a reel with no A/R, no drag - just you and your thumb. This example is full ball bearing LW, drive and spool (6 BB total), for a serious rush.

The important thing here is set your reel drag to no more than 1/4 of the max line rating (= 6 lbs) - to avoid breaking your rod on a set and/or a fish reaction.

@bgaviator - my Steez is 6.3, I have it tuned to the lightest salt finesse w/ Roro-X spool, and that retrieve is perfect there w/ a short handle. Think light lures, but still big fish. 7.1 (my most recent SLPW-Zillion) is pretty much all-around, and I like the stock-length handle there. My Silver Wolf was only available in 8.5, along with my first '21 Zillion SV TW - on both of those, I like longer handles for both lure finesse and cranking power.

maybe you should be and that was a $205 7.1-geared gift horse. I paid $300 for mine the week it came out from Asian Portal. Going into 4th hard year, never backlashed, and had to thumb the spool to keep it out of my friends across the tide pass. From this side of the pass, I was dropping off the same shelf Tony's fishing. 4th hard year, and at this price, you can always change the trim. ______________________ A thought about SV cast distance. If you snap your wrist at the end of your cast, that's adding jerk, the time-derative of acceleration. SV is going to do its job and subtract energy from your spool to prevent start-up backlash. If you follow-through your wrist with smooth acceleration, SV will subtract less energy with brake, and more of your cast energy will go into distance.

Out of the box w/ 12-lb fluoro, all my 34-mm Daiwas cast 1/8 oz to 100' If you mess with them, they'll cast 2 g to 130'

@bgaviator We just went through this exercise a couple of weeks ago. Amazon $205 shipped, 7.1 gear. https://www.amazon.com/Daiwa-Gileon-1000HL-Handle-Model/dp/B08NP3DZQJ/ref=sr_1_2 I hope this thing is on.

Can I give @MiceNReets 2 likes for the Right Answer?

I believe the OP's question relates to the value of the provenance to a Zebco collector, specifically for the new boxed reel kept in its package. Does Bill Dance have a fan club that someone might want to own this memento, etc. As all things that may become collectible, it won't have a short-term value spike. But serial No. 0001 combined with the signed provenance makes it a singular item. Signature-model rods and reels come up enough on this forum page, some here place a value on them.

The "formula" is 4th grade algebra. The significant digits matter in a NASA trajectory. They don't matter in a crankbait retrieve. Yes, they were teaching algebra in 4th grade - you just didn't know it. I can also guarantee they used the algebra and not the calculus to report IPT for reel models (otherwise, they would report it as formula for line diameter)

R = Gear ratio is how many times the spool turns for one turn of the handle (it's the number of teeth on the main gear divided by the pinion gear teeth). I = Pi-times-spool-diameter (inches) is how much line one turn of the spool picks up. Multiply R X I = IPT = inches of line picked up by one turn of the handle.

Except for Ambassadeur, 60s baitcasters didn't have freespool - there were still some mainstream reels, Langley Target, without level wind - these were the only baitcasters intended to fish less than 3/8 oz.

Shimano copied Lew's design in 1975, after 2 years of building Lew's design for Lew. Took Lew a few more years to set up with Ryobi and start up BB-1N production. I'm not answering any more dumb questions on this thread.

MagForce/Z/SV will become as ubiquitous as Marhoff's LW and Douglas' pinion-lift-freespool (Abu resurfaced in 1954 along w/ their centrifugal). Daiwa's brake design is too brilliantly simple and brilliantly effective to not become universal. Patent rights last 18 years from date awarded. If Lew had patented his ubiquitous LW/spool separation, Shimano wouldn't have made a baitcaster with their name on it before 1993. Instead, he hired Shimano to build his reels and steal his design. Something else you can take to the bank. No reel design that uses a computer chip will ever become more than a novelty.

My freshwater tackle choices might as well be from another planet. I don't get all the backlash priority on BR - to me, backlash is something you search for its onset when you're setting up brakes. But even if the reel has no brakes and requires 100% thumb, no problem, I can cast it and fish it. I also don't get the dozen different reels with a dozen different brake systems. If you have something that works, stick with it, learn how it works, and how to tune it for whatever you want to do with it. OK, all my 34-mm Daiwas are in salt. Three Zillion and a Steez. I have never seen a more reliable or versatile reel - they all swap spools and can be set up to fish 2g or 2 oz. I've said this before, when Daiwa's patents expire, every reel made will use this brake system. Shimano's current variable mag, SVS, doesn't have an accidental name - it's simply that they can claim Daiwa's brake system was their idea when they begin to copy it.

my bud Jimbo keeps one of those under his hat