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Issues with Stella sw10000 gearings
Dave Hoo:
Hi all,
I have heard quite a number of feedbacks from tackleshops n my fiends that the Stella sw10000 n sw10000xg have issues with true gears being worn out after just 1-2 popping trips.
I am concerned as I intended to get them for popping.
I was advised to buy the twinpower sw12000hg reel which is supposed to be a workhorse.
I just tend to want to get stella more as price difference between a Stella and twinpower is minimal
Are there any users of these reels and any feedbacks?
Thanks
William Espina:
fortunately mine dont have these problems, at least not yet :P.
Mark Harris:
Sounds extremely unlikely Dave. Have you actually seen Stella SW10000 gearing worn out after just 1 or 2 trips? If not, I would dismiss that as yet more rumours that our sport is so famous for.
What I can tell you from personal experience is that I damaged the main gear on a Twinpower SW12000 after about 8 months of heavy, regular usage. 5 of the cog points started to show some very minimal wear. It did not effect the performance but it did make the reel a bit noisy. Shimano being Shimano, replaced the gear without question and I still use this reel a lot. I also have a Twinpower SWA 10000 which gets similar heavy usage but no issues there yet.
On the difference between the gear materials on a Stella SW and Twinpower SW, this is from the indomitable Alan Hawk at Stripers:
1) The gearing of the STL is a cold forged drive gear with bronze surface treatment and a hardened stainless steel pinion. TP has the same drive gear but without the surface treatment, and a brass pinion.
2) Stella's gearing and internal parts and rotor are fitted to the main body that has the reel's stem as an integral part (12383). then the side cover is is screwed on. On TP, the parts and rotor are attached to a gear box (13327) that is separate from the part that carries the reel's stem (13313), before they are screwed together. Needless to say that the Stella's design is way stronger and more reliable.
http://stripersonline.com/surftalk/showthread.php?p=6820650#post6820650
Jeff Larsen:
I have not experienced this problem with my stella 10000sw. Been a great reel, rock solid.
Tony Yancic:
I have a Stella 10000SW over a year now never missed a beat i also have a 20000sw 18000sw and 5000sw have not had any problems with none of them awesome reels
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