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Slazmo

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    Australian Fisher
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    Fishing, reel servicing, kayaking and anything else outdoors.
  • What I do for a living:
    Retail slave, reel servicing.

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    Gold Coast, Australia

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  1. Koalas are never confused... They're in a constant state of drunkenness...
  2. VCI paper helps if your that way inclined... Shouldntnbeba problem to get from a retailer over there or get it from a gun shop...
  3. Well that's fair enough. I found some interesting things in it and sent you pictures and what not to your IG, as posting up here looks a bit of a stretch again. Raspy in free wind out of normal use, but in normal wind use its fine and smooth... For me to contend with is a few areas, one being so many O rings and you remember the side plate of the Bantam MGL, just a personal peeve, they will squash and wear out in time if not swell if they're reactive to out of spec oils and greases from Shimano. The spool shaft nut bushing that's seated into the rotor jesus nut itself via O Ring again. This bushing that seats on the Tuffram coated aluminium shaft itself unpolished - I got out the paste and Dremel and used a cotton tip to polish the inner wearing surface to a mirror - feels quiet nice now, just glides down the shaft under its own weight. The rotor was another change, the big concealed & heavy counterbalanced weight in there was a "WTF" - seriously why? I know its to balance the rotor but its counter productive IMHO to the reel itself overall with weight... Now onto the body plastics... Shimano won't disclose what it's made from, so it's not XT7G or Ci4 / Ci4+... So is it a form of Magnumlite? As the gear box half on the Stradic FL is only 2gr heavier than a Stradic FA Ci4+ body gearbox half? Body and rotor only stamped as 'PA'... There are a few other interesting things I've pointed out, but when your ready check out the pics on IG I took they're there no pressure. A few questions remain.
  4. Yeh I was wondering where you disappeared off to to so I thought I'd haunt you on here. I can't direct message you on here due to new account limitations either I assume - opened the account solely for that really. This one I got 4,000 kms away on the other side of the country, just an online sale, BNWB or papers for a pretty price... This one here too is raspy when you over free spin it, just the nature of the gears and train movement, a totally unnatural thing to do to a reel also - I mean really it's not something you do normally while fishing is it? Generally it's been good to use but I am not looking forward to re-servicing this thing anytime soon.
  5. We still lay claim to ole Paulie... Even though he lives abroad... As dinky Di Aussie as they come, just wish we weren't so tight ass about political correction and having a laugh as we've become here in the great southern land... You don't get reruns of his earlier work and rarely a reruns of Crocodile Dundee because of it's taboo nature of comedy, and how fragile minded some have become...
  6. Best thing to do with the FK stradic to resolve the crappy line roller bearing issue is to replace the unit with a Stella FI line roller bearing - when that bearing claps out, simply gently heat the line roller (with blue rubber seals removed) and push out the inner bearing / clean any locktite green seating compound and insert a new bearing of your quality / choice. Within regards to the rest of the reel, what let's them down out of the box is how dry they're built in factory, the bearings are literally sneezed on with grease when assembled.
  7. I bought a 2500 HG (would've preferred the PG), opposed to other than being just smooth and well fitting it's sort of well 'meh' not that exciting to me now... I'm fishing solely with it at the moment to just bed it in after a full strip and rebuild (to do comparison on IG), but there is nothing, repeat absolutely nothing valued more over say the FA, FH, F, FJ or even FK Stradic's that I own and fish with. I can't seem to find much of a huge increase of anything worthwhile (especially if I was to pay full price) to make me hand over my hard earned dollars on it compared to previous models honestly saying. Other than parts number increasing towards Stella SW territory... A very fiddly reel to service IMHO for its price range.
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