It seems that a ridge has formed in the center of my spool.  It feels concave on either side.  Has anyone ever experienced this before?  Did I spool too tight... na... bad part?  My Curado 200 DHSV is smooth and straight.  Just curious, going to take it to Shimano tomorrow and see what they have to say.

It seems that a ridge has formed in the center of my spool.  It feels concave on either side.  Has anyone ever experienced this before?  Did I spool too tight... na... bad part?  My Curado 200 DHSV is smooth and straight.  Just curious, going to take it to Shimano tomorrow and see what they have to say.

"By the way I spooled it with Berkley Portable line spoolinf station"

It seems that a ridge has formed in the center of my spool.  It feels concave on either side.  Has anyone ever experienced this before?  Did I spool too tight... na... bad part?  My Curado 200 DHSV is smooth and straight.  Just curious, going to take it to Shimano tomorrow and see what they have to say.

"By the way I spooled it with Berkley Portable line spooling station"

Shimano replaced the spool at no charge... and said they had never seen one like it!

Could you post a picture of the deformed spool?  I'm curious to see what you were describing in your post.

Already turned it in, was going to last night.  If you look at the center where the holes are drilled out, a ridge had formed in center between holes, with stress marks on the metal.  So it appeared that the metal between center to each side had collapsed a fraction, enough to feel.  The ridge and stress marks were the give away.  Shamano thought it was over load of heavy braid applied to tight.  But reel has never had higher than 10lb., and its always been hand spooled.