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You could bend the star with a crecent wrench to match the handle bend.

No, that's just a very nice example I saw on ebay. Most pictures of these reels are horror shows so I grabbed the nice picture.

I saw that earlier. It's s little rough but otherwise tempting.

They might just be old Doyos. Silstar handled all the manufacturering for Pinnacle back then and Silstar was using Korean reels so it's highly likely that the reels were just rebranded Doyo reels. The fact that BPS had reels that looked identical confirms it for me. In the pre-internet days Doyo was unknown outside of Korea so it looked like Pinnacles were Silstars we, in fact, they were both early Doyos

This guy has some history on the brand. They were around in the 90s and went bankrupt in 1999 only to return in 2009 and probably go bankrupt again. I don't know what their association with pinnacle is. I don't know if pinnacle was a client or a brand name they owned. It's very possible that what remained of their manufacturing in Korea spawned doyo. I'm going to embrace my inner boomer as a 40 year old millennial and collect hobby equipment I liked and used from the 90s. I'm already doing this with my paintball stuff in that i never got rid of it. I just need a some pinnacle reels from this time period. I regret trading in my YCZ10 to bass pro.

I think they are silstars. I'm prettty sure silstar made pinnacles of that era and the same year BPS reels are identical to pinnacles from then. BPS didn't switch to Doyo until the 2000s. https://www.silstar.eu/main/about-us/#:~:text=However in early 1996 the,brand in Europe virtually disappeared.

No. That's almost always a feature of Daiwa PE reels. They have had a number of PE specials over the years and actually just released a new Zillion HD based HRF PE special. There really isnt a BFS line. Early BFS spools for bass reels, such as the KTF spools, were centered around using light fluorocarbon line too stiff and unruly for spinning reels with the sunline finesse special being popular at the time. Today we have super light weight spools meant for stream trout fishing that are PE/braid only because non braid can collapse the spool if wound on under tension. 25 HRF PE special

I'm pretty sure those old BP reels were silstar/pinnacle. I used to buy the pinnacles at walmart and they all had that same VBS knockoff brake. I really liked the models with the light weight ported "wiffle spools" like the ycz10. I would run braid and little to no spool tension throwing 1/4 oz baits in the 90s. They were the 1st reels to open my mind to concepts like spool weight, high spool speed casting performance and that spool tension was a lie.

I use a Zillion HD on the Valkyrie XH

Daiwa had the lefty flipping frame TD-X that had a switch to operate the clutch and the T3 that has a "flip up hood" that is actually the thumb bar. Pushing down on the back of hood/thumbar let's you cast and turning through handle or pushing down on the hood while palming engages the reel. I own both and it's a neat feature for flipping but you can also just use your thumb tip to lift the thumb bar on modern reels, although this can't be done when palming the reel. https://www.tackletour.com/reviewdaiwat3reel.html

You can use a modern swept handle but you will need to bend the drag star points or switch to a swept point threaded Daiwa drag star. I don't think the ones with the nut and spring will work. Also, to accommodate a newer drag star you will need a spool tension cap with a tapered edge because the modern Daiwa stars have a larger diameter to accommodatea clicker and this will interfere with the stock spool tension knob. Pictured below are various Sols from another forum Two with a swept drag star and with or without a clicking star and tapered spool tension knob (note the larger diameter of the star base to accommodate the clicker and how that eats into the spool tension knob on the top reel). Stock spool tension cap with bent stock drag star. Stock spool tension knob, drag star and a straight ZPI carbon handle (you can gear cheap Ray's Studio ones too) Sols are just Alphas. Daiwa never calls the Alphas an Alphas when they bring it to the states. They called it Sol and later the Alphas SV was the SV105. Here is an Alphas SV with some color parts. The 15 Alphas SV and Alphas CT 70 is the reel you want to match parts to. An Alphas CT 70 spool tension knob and a gear set from the CT 70 or SV would be a must for me. Those gears are butter compared to the earlier Alphas gears. https://tackletrap.com/products/daiwa-sv105-cast-control-cap-black

You can absolutely use the 70 SV for cranks. I would prefer the 80 because I prefer the Magforce Z braking profile of the 80 for casting cranks but the 70 will do the job. IMO, the 70 is better suited to control applications like pitching jigs, skipping, weightless worms or finesse baits. I have my 80 as my squarebill reel and while I don't have the 70 I have nearly the same thing, the Alphas TW SV, as my jig reel with heavy fluoro.

Absolutely

Get the Tatula 80 for jerkbaits and the 70 for weightless plastics and skipping.

Yeah, loosen that spool tension back to how it came out of the box and use 4 brakes on with max on the external dial. Lower the dial until you are happy with the casting results. Shimano's Japanese instructions state to set the spool tension to just eliminate side to side play.

Long carbon fiber filaments in a fishing reel? The length of milled carbon fiber used in carbon filled nylon is measured in fractions of a millimeter. It is by definition, very short carbon fiber filaments. A truly long carbon fiber filled plastic would be similar to the Markforged material tested in the video which actually put up some impressive tensile strengths. It's still quite flexible making it less than ideal for a fishing reel. If you wanted to use this material you would need a 3d printer to make use of the long filament injection and reels aren't 3d printed because 3d printers aren't well suited to economies of scale. Injection molding is used when making plastic objects in a large volume like a fishing reel. 3d printing isnt used because the result of a solid fill 3D print and an injection molded part are identical with the injection molding process requiring more up front investment in the machine and molds but can produce parts in a high volume at a low cost per part. If no 3d printing of reels means no injection of long, continuous carbon fiber filaments into the 3d printing process of the reel then I find any claims of "long" carbon fiber used in reels dubious. Longer than 0.04 mm isn't "long" like we see with the Markforged material in the video that has continuous fiber strands placed into the print running end to end of the part. Milled carbon fiber. Daiwa T3 made from Daiwa's Zaion with an unpainted finish showing off the carbon powder fill in the plastic of the reel body, drag star and knobs.

The T wing definitely helps with non braid flowing out of the reel at high spool speeds and especially with heavier, stiffer fluoro like 14+ Sniper. With braid or limper, smaller diamer non braid I don't notice a difference between my T wing and non T wing Daiwas with similar braking profiles. A TD-Z Type R+ and a Zillion SV Boost cast about the same for me with braid with the Zillion offering more control at higher mag brake settings for skipping being the notable difference. With 16 pounds unconditioned Sniper? The Zillion handles that line way better. I have to reach for the spool tension with the TD-Z to slow the spool down enough to match the rate the fluoro slinky can flow out of conventional the level wind. Not ideal.

I've heard it takes forever to get parts from Daiwa US. The key is to not use Daiwa US and order from Japan such as through Plat. The best advice i can give is to just pretend that Daiwa US doesn't exist. They only exist to inflict pain, suffering and misinformation on those that don't know that Daiwa is a Japanese company. You want to wait 6 months to a year for a part to show up? Use Daiwa US. Want completely wrong information about a Daiwa reel? Visit the Daiwa US website.

Brother, did you just quote marketing?

Braid, no spool tension and use baits that cast far. It's a free casting reel. You can't force baits that cast poorly and rapidly slow down to cast farther with a free casting reel. You'll have a terrible experience and the opposite of what you want. You want to play off strengths and mitigate weaknesses work your reel, line and bait selection. This means using a free casting reel with free flowing line to bomb baits that cast well and a reel with a more control oriented braking profile to cast stiff unruly large diameter plastic lines and baits that cast poorly. An example of this would be using a Steez HLC (hyper long cast) with braid to bomb frogs or spooks and a Tatula 300 with heavy fluoro casting glide baits. The heavy braking profile on the 300 is designed to reduce helicoptering of the bait on the cast.

You need the washers that fit under the cap. Also, you don't need to use spool tension with that reel or any reel really. You can if you want to but this idea that you have to use spool tension based on bait weight of all things is utter nonsense.

There are no carbon fiber fishing reels. We have some carbon fiber parts like drag washers and reel handles but thats about it. Carbon fiber is a meme word everyone wants to throw around and associate with their products. The reels are plastic with a graphite fiber filler. It's plastic with carbon dust mixed in that there to help with the injection molding process to get the plastic to behave better. Carbon fiber is made from graphite so by association the claim is made that the plastic reel with graphite mixed in is a carbon fiber reel. It's like claming that something is plated with solid gold so it's made from solid gold. The material used in fishing reels is similar to the Onyx tested in this video. It's not carbon fiber at all and is in fact, plastic.

Apparently the Maverick comes in both aluminum frame and plastic frame versions. I'm going to assume the $25 one is plastic but that still makes it the same reel as the Royal Legend but half price. I just found this out from someone that had that reel.

You can do better for $40. At least try to get an aluminum frame reel like the Seasir Megacuda or, literally the same reel as the Royal Legend II but with an aluminum frame, the Dobyns Maverick on clearance.

I use them alot. The import shipping is expensive but once a bait becomes popular then you will usually be able to find US retailers. I remember buying Keitech Swing Impacts in 2011 from Japan but now they are on Taxklewarehouse.