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Studio Ocean Mark Drag System Rebuild - Better than Shimano Stella drag system

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Enoch Li:
Roger that Andy,

The SOM No limits was bone dry.  Now it's coated with Cal's grease from California :)

Marc, what kind of performance difference with the teflon only drag? 

Brandon Khoo:
Enoch, thanks a heap for taking all the effort for this post. It's very useful for anyone with SOM spools. I've changed all my spools across to the No Limits now so very grateful for this post.

Do you think I should apply a thin film of Cal's onto my washer or leave it bone dry as it is out of the box?

Btw, the normal SOM spool is not comparable to the No Limits in drag capability.

Enoch Li:
Brandon, Thanks for the kind words.  I'm glad to hear I can be a resource for the handfull of anglers here that have SOM no limits spools.  I really believe that there is an advantage for smooth drag in their design.

I've heated up the spool from drag runs and I believe that the layer of Cal's grease does indeed help move the heat away from the stack and keep it smoothly working.  Instead of just being a lubricator for friction caused by the washers the grease acts as a distributor of heat. 

Remember how heat sinks work in your CPU motherboard?  There exist a thin layer of grease between the actual chip and it's heat sink.  This grease conducts the heat to the metal "northbridge" ring we have on the bottom of the spool.
Same type of actions going on here.

I advise a thin layer on the carbon fibres.  Say enough to "soak" the fibres and saturate the washer.  The top half of the drag stack gets more pressure as the cap is directly pressing down on it from the top.  Those will wear quicker than the bottom ones.

Brandon, do you have the 20k NL SOM spool as well as the 16000 NL SOM spools?

Brandon Khoo:
No, I haven't bothered with the other SOM spools. I only use the 16000 No Limits as the standard 10000 spool isn't quite big enough for PE8 and I feel the No Limits has a better drag on it. That is not the case with the 18000 or 20000 spools which are fine to me.

Dave Chan:
how's normal (non no limit) som spool like? is that still better than standard stella spool? anyone knows?

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