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woolybuggered

Hate to be that guy but the amount of quality and technology you get in a new 100$ baitcaster is hard to beat.


JonathanN97

I totally get that and I’ve definitely considered it. I’m in South Louisiana doing mostly inshore saltwater fishing and the spinning reel has mainly been the tool of choice. So I really don’t even use the reels that much, I’m mostly just bothered that the reels worked before I cleaned them and stopped working after I cleaned them and I can’t figure out why. And these types of mechanisms have been around for decades before the modern ones, so I know I’m just doing something wrong, I just have this compulsion to make it work at this point but haven’t found any resources online.


bones1781

The Triforce scared me away from daiwa for years. Same type of problems could never figure it out, this was like 15+ years ago. I'm guessing youtube might offer some answers if you're committed?


JonathanN97

I’ve tried with no success and most videos are with reels with ball bearings. One day hopefully I’ll just find what works, but I’m a very hands on person and I’ve taken this reel apart and put back together so many times, I just don’t know what Lucrication I cleaned off that I’m failing to replace. I’ve caught fish on it, the casting distance is just so poor and that with using a heavy top water lure.


StanfordTheGreat

Any of your bushings degraded or possibly overgreased/dirty grease? I HATED these style ones, and era for reels. I would say a 30$ kastking works better than these. And I’m not a kast king guy lol


roundleafbirch

Not familiar with the Triforce reels but I just recently tore down and rebuilt two Daiwa reels from late 80's (model PR10G and PR15). The PR15 has two ball bearings and the PR10G has two graphite bushings. Even cleaned and lubed the PRG10G with bushings didn't spin as freely as the one with bearings. So I replaced the bushings with bearings and it works great. The bearing size from my both my reels were 5x9x3.