After a great day of fishing yesterday with a favorite BFS outfit including my Daiwa PXL Type R, the reel started getting a little noisy when casting and needing frequent adjustments.  (fish photo from yesterday)

 

The southern end of Lake Champlain where I usually bass fish has heavily clay-silted water and bearings can sometimes get dirty.  I decided to flush and lube the spool bearings on a few reels I've been using a lot.  It turns out one of them on the PXL was bad, or had a chunk of something in it that wouldn't flush out.  I have a good selection of spare bearings so I replaced it.

 

I have a handy little bearing flushing tool I got from an R/C store.  I use brake cleaner to flush them out, then White Lightning bearing lube or Finish Line ceramic lube to lube them back up.  When I took the side over off the PXL, I must have set it down on a rag that was damp with brake cleaner.  The paint wrinkled!   ?

 

I just e-mailed Daiwa to see how much a replacement would be...

 

 

 

That's horrible. Please don't share stories like these.

As soon as the 13 Metanium was introduced I ordered one immediately from Japan Lure Shop. When they were released I waited with the patience of Job. It finally arrived and not wanting to wait to get into the house, I opened the package on the bed of my truck. Removing the sideplate for a closer inspection, I dropped it on the driveway taking a big chunk off it's edge. I feel ya Brother, Brian.

I tried to clean a filthy license plate with brake cleaner once. 
 

ONCE! 
 

 

 

Daiwa is known to have paint bubble problem, especially one that used in salt. I saw someone mention that even new Zillion SV TW paint is pretty weak and get scratched very easily.

1 hour ago, Bass_Fishing_Socal said:

Daiwa is known to have paint bubble problem, especially one that used in salt. I saw someone mention that even new Zillion SV TW paint is pretty weak and get scratched very easily.

 

It's not faulty paint... it was the brake cleaner.  ?

 

1 hour ago, BrianMDTX said:

I tried to clean a filthy license plate with brake cleaner once. 
 

ONCE! 

 

At least you learned your lesson the first time.  I should know better... I ruined the finish on my last coffee table when brake cleaner soaked through a rag I was using to protect it while working on some gun parts.

 

It's a favorite degreaser/solvent of mine but I forget how damaging it can be to some things.

26 minutes ago, desmobob said:

 

It's not faulty paint... it was the brake cleaner.  ?

 

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Yes it is operator error but Daiwa paint can be a little bit more durable compare to say Shimano. ???

15 hours ago, BrianMDTX said:

I tried to clean a filthy license plate with brake cleaner once. 
 

ONCE! 

Look at the bright side, no more speed camera tickets...  

13 hours ago, Bass_Fishing_Socal said:

Yes it is operator error but Daiwa paint can be a little bit more durable compare to say Shimano. ???

Yeah, and Tide pods should be tastier...

It's just some wrinkles in the paint but it will tick me off every time I look at it so...

I found a right side plate for the reel.  About twenty-four bucks, to my door.  I ordered it.

 

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On 6/28/2021 at 3:53 PM, desmobob said:

It's just some wrinkles in the paint but it will tick me off every time I look at it so...

I found a right side plate for the reel.  About twenty-four bucks, to my door.  I ordered it.

 

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I just got an e-mail yesterday from the place I ordered the new side plate from...  They're sending me a refund because the part is out of stock.  I couldn't find one anywhere so I guess I have to live with a little bit of wrinkled paint!