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Would be nice to see some pics of your workLiphook wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 6:42 am Spurred on by the arival of a spare spool for my grey 760, I've had my vintage Daiwa reels to bits for a basic clean and re lubrication. I've been very impressed by their general construction, particularly the total lack of wear internally. I've got some woven carbon sheet on its way so I can cut new drag washers for them all. These will get a coat of Cals drag grease and that should make them all smooth and luvly.....time will tell. I'll come clean and say I've got another -a 750- on it's way from fleabay. See what you've started Jeremy and Terry![]()
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The spring-loaded drags on the 7000 series have the coil spring not in the washer stack but built into the drag knob.Dunsmuir wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:45 am Mind you, I have a 730H and as far as I can see, the drag set up in its spool looks identical to the one in my 7300H. I know the 730s with the H designation were a generally higher spec, which might explain it. Or maybe the one I have is a late example. It doesn’t say ‘spring loaded drag’ on the spool, though.
And thank you very much Liphook for the extremely helpful reply on how to deploy carbontex replacements. Excellent.
Ah, that explains it. I've been puzzling about how the spring loaded technology actually worked. I assumed it was something to do with the way the washers were held in the spool, but evidently not. Many thanks.