Bent the heck out of the handle on my Kastking Valiant Eagle Pro bfs reel, and it’s pretty bad, don’t think I can bend it back into shape without significant metal fatigue. Their website is impossible to navigate for replacement parts. Gonna call em when office open but does anyone know a good replacement option? I think it’s 8 mm but of course no specs listed on the parts list diagram.

Gomexus et al seems to cater to bigger reels.

Don’t wanna spend a ton of money on this: it was my first bfs reel and it’s decidedly meh compared with my Ark Gravity and Curado bfs reels. (Yeah, cheaper, but…)

Thanks!

Check out ArtSea on Express website.

This is a nice 85-mm carbon handle that came with nice cork knobs, but since I'm using this in the salt, I swapped the knobs for salt-sealed.

Looked up my invoice, total with cork knobs was $20

KastKing handles are equal to what you can find on Ali for $5, so if you don't want to get something better than what was already attached on your reel, this is what i'd get.

Upgrading can have many purposes. The reel I show above, and again, shed a whole bunch of offset weight by swapping too long and heavy handle plus original drag star built on a huge steel threaded spacer. A finesse reel that torques your grip hand wouldn't be very finesse.

What can I say, the spool bearings I added cost more than the reel, and the knobs cost the same, but I have the exact result I wanted.