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Need advice on filling spool on new 20000 SW Stella

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earlhamilton:
I was thinking of asking a similar question regarding loading Santa's latest gift, my new Stella SW18000HG. The three criteria that concerned me were the capacity, having enough even tension, and keeping out twist. Whatever I do not want the braid cutting into soft layers underneath if I can help it, and I guess good tension will give me as much line as I could put on the reel.
As it turned out I got just over 300m of PE#8 YGK ultra on it, loaded without twist, and a nice even tension.
I achieved this by letting the braid come off the retail spool without tension, in the usual fashion so that it counteracts the twist put in by the bail, and then threaded the braid through a Tiagra 30 (held down on a table by a friend)taking the braid round the spool a dozen or so times and then off the Tiagra spool and threaded through the rod guides and onto the Stella spool, set the drag on the Tiagra to apply enough tension to the braid coming off the Tiagra spool and onto the Stella, and wind away till the Stella was loaded. This seemed to work really well as the spooled braid is really solid on the Stella.
I know its a bit late to ask for my new baby, but what do you guys think would be the ideal tension to set the drag on the Tiagra for for PE8 or a fighting drag on the Stella set at say 15kg ?

Andy Rowe:
I bought this cool little device today, a japanese tool for spooling and unspooling has a tension adjustment for spooling up and clamps to a table or bench. Very impressed, yet to test it out though.

Tri Vi Ton:
randall,
er are u mad? LOL i spool hundreds of spools every year, by machine (not hand!!)... yes u can get more line length on, but once it goes off you may find the natural osciltion of reel will put the line(back on) on less efficiently, and hence suddenly you have over spooling, and in some cases bad windknot etc.

other bad effects are line wraps being too adjacent/parallel, that it doesnt come freely off spool, under cast or drag..

even tho i spool that many spools by machine, i think old fashioned is best in terms of performance.. and in terms of the mega sized PE that u guys tend to use, you wont actually gain that much line length.

and lastly, and backing up wot others have said about spooling bias, you know striaght away whether you need to add or remove washrs... with Big sized PE you can usually tell within the first few layers

and ANDY!!! wot is that tools name and maker?

Andy Rowe:
Hi Tri,

It's in Japanese, I see they are actually advertised on the Plat site if you hunt around abit you should find it.

I'm at work at the moment so can't tell you straight away.

Rgds
Andy

Tri Vi Ton:
thanks andy...

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