I recently picked up at Tatula 80, I spooled it up with 30lb berkley X9 and noticed when I give a moderate amount of force on the cast, the spool makes a screeching sound , If i cast gently the sound isn’t as pronounced. I use the X9 on all my setups, and have not had this problem. What could be causing the screeching sound? And how do I fix it? Thanks in advance.

I was going to say mine do this and it’s been ok for me, but further digging says it needs oil on the spool. Give that a shot.

Have you lubed the bearing under the tension knob and the one in the side plate? The one I got from you has been great, but every now and then those spool bearings need a drop of oil or they'll get loud. Do you have a Daiwa Reel Oiler? Makes it easy to place the drop between the bearing shield and inner race.

6 minutes ago, raydomz said:

I think this is normal behavior. My tatula elite and reg tatulas both do this on full-power casts. I believe it is the sound of the braking mechanism doing its thing.

None of my Tats do this, but I oil my bearings about once a month. Takes 2 minutes and everything is right again.

A number of my daiwas have done this out of the box, it's always dry bearings.

Just now, Peacedivision said:

A number of my daiwas have done this out of the box, it's always dry bearings

MOST

Zillion included

@Banned User mostly tat elites for me, but my routine for any new daiwa reel now before line goes on is to pull the spool and oil the spool/pinion bearings.

Yeah, they make great products, but simply ship them bone dry sometimes. Feels a bit nickle and dimey

Put a drop of water on both spool bearings. If the sound is gone, you need to oil them.

4 hours ago, SproDD79 said:

I recently picked up at Tatula 80, I spooled it up with 30lb berkley X9 and noticed when I give a moderate amount of force on the cast, the spool makes a screeching sound

Make sure the line coming off the spool is going OVER the crossbar just behind the level wind and through the t wing, instead of under the crossbar and through the t wing.

If oiling the bearing doesn't help sometimes the bearing needs to be replaced.

Bought a brand new one last fall and did this. I oiled all bearing and it still whined bad. I sent it back for a replacement. Hopefully the new one doesn’t. Seems to be very common on the 80

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Heard from the OP that oiling the spool bearings solved his issue.

I’ve heard this is common with the tat 80s