i didnt wax it, only put a bit of oil on that lip. but hey this is $250 spool, enough to buy the entire mid class shimano, daiwa reel. why do we need to do all of this, just like when people give the old daiwa saltiga a hard time, where people complaint about they sticky drag, people said why i need to pay extra to upgrade the drag when buying an odd $800 reel. with shimano luckily they replace my 10000 spool straight away, with no question ask, but with this 12000 spool i dont know how they deal with this, as its so rare in the market and i dont think shimano stock them and i bought this from states as well.
i used to have both daiwa and shimano and already convert to shimano now, but just my fair comment on daiwa, i never took my line out to be washed, etc etc like i did with stella now, once i took all the line out from my expedition, i notice there are sign of salt powder sitting there but surprisingly no sign of corrosion whatsoever in there even tough it might already be there for a year or so as i didnt replace the line for more than a year