ishidai internals Q

[Sam Beeby]

Hoping anyone familiar with the guts of the saltiga overheads can help here.   

I noticed that in the Ishidai Z40 schematics that the reel only has 6 elements in the drag washer stack yet it yields 15kg claimed drag. Compare this to a standard 30T/40 and they have 9 elements but only pull a claimed 10kg of drag. Thats not logical to me. I doubt different washer material would account for that much more drag. The only thing i can think is if the ishidai's have a larger diameter gear that fits wider washers, but the side plates look no bigger on the ishi compared to the 30T/40 so don't know about that one either.  If anyone knows what the go is, I'd be more than interested in an explanation

[Sam Beeby]

got a  reply from the guys at Plat in japan. They said that all things being equal that a higher number of washers/elements in a star drag stack achieves fine adjustment, but not nesessarily drag power. Thats why jap surf eggbeaters for example have a million washers in the stack because they are designed for lighter lines that need finely adjusted drag to suit.

The Ishidai is aparently designed for specialist right on the bottom jigging/bottom bouncing (thats why it has the line counter I spose) and locking up on big cod etc and so accurate fine drag adjustment is not important since it will basically just be cranked to the max. Its main gear takes bigger diameter drag washers (diameter being more important for drag power) and thats why it generates a stronger drag with almost half the number of washers in the stack.

so there you go - physically bigger gears in star drags are a definite plus