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Jon Li:
Andy n others ,

Guide wraps is one factor we have to live with during casting and guide wrap causes fiber to be frayed and the ability of a line to absorb the shock load is greatly reduced after several guide wraps , hence the line break by shock load is usually occur a few meters from the knot to the leader . Guide wrap during snap power casting have been known to pull the stripper guide out of it's wrapping , so imagine the shock load of such cast .

Wind knot in some extend causes some fiber to be frayed especially when pulling the line to free the small hitch caused by wind knot is employed , this tend to greatly affect the coating of the PE line and leave the fiber of the PE line exposed . Untangling the wind knot can cause frictions and none of the PE line in the market is especially good against friction , when comared to nylon lines let alone fluorocarbon lines .

The coating protects the fiber from abrasion , after heavy usage the coating will wear off and the fibers are exposed to frictions despite using SIC guides which is supposedly to be friction free but nothing is friction free when the rod is bent under heavy load , micro nicks which can't be seen by naked eyes on the surface of the SIC guides can cause fraying to the already exposed fibers .

Stiff rods can contribute to " explosion " of line during a violent strike but the root cause of such line break is due to the line has been damaged prior to the engagement .

There are many other factors to the causes of shock load line break , I am not discounting the slack QC in the factory as well as mis handlings during and after the line leaves the factory as well as our own equipment failures as as bail arm roller in the reel , corroded spool lip , etc. , etc.

Jon .

Dmitrii Novgorodtcev:
Andy, I think the only way to know is ask Varivas... or find a person who already asked Varivas and got reply ;)

Jon, you are so right and there are really so many factors affecting line breaks. Once me and 2 my friends got new YGK 8WX Jigman line and during next fishing 2 my friends had several line breaks just without any clear reason. It just broke about 10m from the end during fighting with small fish. YGK is very reliable maker, so we were very surprised. But sometime after we assumed that the reason was mishandling during winding the line on the spool. I winded the line on beforehand using Daiichi winding machine and having applied teflon spray on the edges of the bobbin before the start. And my line did not fail. My both friends winded the line in a haste in the hotel before the fishing - one holding the bobbin, another reeling. I think that line going out from the bobbin got into contact with its edges and the line's coating was affected. May be, it was not that, but it was the only difference in line handling between me and my friends.

Andy Rowe:
Jon, you have raised some important factors here which can lead to failure, at least some of these are within our control to check. After all the preparation and waiting for a GT trip to be let down by simple things that could have been avoided by routine checking and maintenance especially on the line rollers, rod guides and perhaps stripping a bit of line of the spool which got heavily used last trip, Word!

Dmitri, getting back to my initial question yes looks like a matter of going to the manufacturer, maybe they would be kind enough to explain.

Jon Li:
Hi Andy ,

For users of Shimano Stella SW , I think bail-arm roller is the one piece of component that could be the main cause of line being frayed , a few anglers in Jakarta have had to change their bail-arm line roller due to the cracking of the coating , unlike the previous FA model which employ line roller made from solid metal , the new Stella SW reels has line rollers are made from formed metal sheet coated with ceramic like coating which is most likely to deform under high drag situation thus causing the crack . This is my observation on the reels , some others may have different view on this issue .

Jon .

Andy Rowe:
Jon, here is the thread http://www.gtpopping.com/forum/index.php?topic=5133.0

I am in the process of changing all mine out now, I bought two new pieces in Singapore last time i was there, all my SW stellas are early batches so i need 3 more new line rollers. I wonder if Shimano in Jakarta will replace the part for free??



--- Quote from: Jon Li on April 02, 2012, 01:31:56 PM ---Hi Andy ,

For users of Shimano Stella SW , I think bail-arm roller is the one piece of component that could be the main cause of line being frayed , a few anglers in Jakarta have had to change their bail-arm line roller due to the cracking of the coating , unlike the previous FA model which employ line roller made from solid metal , the new Stella SW reels has line rollers are made from formed metal sheet coated with ceramic like coating which is most likely to deform under high drag situation thus causing the crack . This is my observation on the reels , some others may have different view on this issue .

Jon .

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