need help spool bearings!!

[colbythecodking]

hello people i need some help with my Penn mag xtra. i took it fishing today only 2 days old its fine and all but when casting the it was making a loud vibration noise i know this is normal but i bought this reel for its smoothness and quite casting. i want to fit the abec 5 bearings that came with it but I'm rather nevus i will break my reel!. the reel casts fine no probs atoll but the noise was getting on my nerves. can someone Tell me about the abec 5 bearings I'm not really bothered about getting ny more distance than i can cuse i can get good distance with it already. all i want to do is know how to fit the bearings and know if they will make any diff noise smoothness etc also if i were to put them in are they already oiled if not should i put some of the Penn oil i got with it? please help!! i also am going fishing with a m8 2moz and would like to show if my mag but i cant really if it makes allot of noise!!

thanks

[colbythecodking]

anyone??

[greysfanboy]

It's more likely the line lay on the spool causing the noise (by putting it out of balance) as opposed to the bearings.

[colbythecodking]

ye i got told somit like that to put serton bumps in places at the start of the line lay but i dunno how you do it could u tell me how i lay my line on neat enuff when reeling in

[greysfanboy]

It's only the first 10 or 20 yards from the inside of the spool that affects the balance, which is why as long as you're fairly neat when reeling in it won't matter. Once you get it right I advise you to never remove the last bit of line on the spool.

There's no right or wrong way to do it, it's just trial and error. This is from a website on how to do it-

SPOOL BALANCE However, all the above is of little use if the spool is out of balance. The importance of spool balance when tuning a fast spool cannot be over emphasised. You have to start off assuming the spool itself is in balance, but it is the initial line lay that invariably determines whether a spool runs like a dream or screams like a stuck pig. First time around set the knot to one side of the spool and wind the line on cotton reel fashion for three of four runs across the spool. Then concentrate on feeding it evenly across the spool and fill her up. Now tape it down with some plastic insulating tape run exactly twice round the spool. It must end immediately over where it starts on the spool, an neven overlap will put the spool out of balance. Now with the magnets slid all the way off tighten up the star drag, give the handle a good flip and put it into free spool with the spool rotating as fast as you like. It should be perfectly silent with no hint of vibration. If in doubt spin it again, place the reel on a flat surface and listen closely. If it's out of balance it will vibrate and possibly move across the surface in extreme cases. Bad news. Wind all the line off onto another reel and rewind it but rather than an even line lay make it the opposite.Wind on the line but keep it all on the right hand side to make a hump 4mm to 5mm high, then take the line rapidly across to the left and make a similar hump there. Finally a hump in the middle and then even it all out and continue to wind on evenly as normal. Tape down the end, spin and see how it runs this time. If it's still not right try ariations of humping left, right, middle or right, middle, left until you achieve vibration free running. You either get it right first time or it may take a little while. Balance is obtained by the lay of the first 20 yards of line. There cannot be to much importance put on this subject.

neilmackellow.sea-angler.org/reel_tuning.html

[colbythecodking]

i put a bump in the middle and a bump on the side and a bump on the other side
it says turn it over and listen for vibration that is basicly impossible cuse u can here the spindle going and all that sorta stuff should i just strip all the line off and just put 1 bump in the middle???

[greysfanboy]

Don't bother trying to listen. Just set the reel in free spool and spin the spool as hard as you can. As it slows down to a stop if it rocks backwards and forwards it still needs balancing if it stops smoothly it's ok.

The annoying thing is that you need the spool to be full to have enough weight to do this so you have to keeping filling it up and stripping it everytime you check.

[colbythecodking]

greysfanboy thanks alot m8 i tried it and yes i do have an umbalanced spool i gonna try those gumb things like 1 bump in middle 3 bumps 2 bumps bla bla if nothing taking it back. if is balanced cuse of line lay will it still rock? back and forwerd

[marksouth]

For my casting reels I tape the line down and use one of the polishing pads on my dremel to run the spool up as fast as possible.


MOST of my casting reels will balance up by just laying the first 50 yards or so right accross the spool really roughly and then evening out the line lay for the rest of the spool

if that doesn;t work then I use the method above. If that doesn't work then the spool goes back to the manufacturer of in the bin but 99% of them will balance.


ONce you get it balanced, never take that last bit of line off the spool of you'll have to go through it all again

This might help myfishcasting.org/TCN/?page_id=10

[colbythecodking]

hi i put a bump in the middle 2day went down and casted gr8 it works fine der is a little humming sound put i predict this is normal cuse of spool play. thanks alot guys gr8 help ;D