FishWisher wrote:
Thanks for posting. Would you mind scaling the max drag on the OFS and sharing your findings?
Yeah, the Saltists seem to have an issue with SW penetration, it's mostly coming in through the eccentric lever fitting. Have to open them up once in a while. A thick coat of grease in that area defenitely helps. The stock bearings on the Saltists and older Toriums, for that matter, are basically crap, and should be replaced with ABEC5's from Smoothdrag.com, or ceramics from Boca, if you're feeling ambitious.
Thanks for the confirmation on the water problem. I realized it was a problem 6mos. after I purchased the 50 and the bearings went. Reel is now about 2 yrs. old . Tried to tell it like it was and everybody continued to praise it. Don 't like having to perform maint. and do upgrades that should have been done before the reel was manufactured ! Try to take-down my reels once a season (with reasonable usage ) and feel if it has to be done more often they have manufactured crap. Kind of blunt but my opinion. When I get some time will try and get a little more technical with the fin-nor #s drag. All I 've done to this point is crank both my saltist 50 and ofs16 drags to max. with both spools full and the ofs16s line seems to come off harder than the saltist 50. Amazing nobody has found out the ofs16s drag capability from fin-nor !
Thanks for posting. Would you mind scaling the max drag on the OFS and sharing your findings?
Yeah, the Saltists seem to have an issue with SW penetration, it's mostly coming in through the eccentric lever fitting. Have to open them up once in a while. A thick coat of grease in that area defenitely helps. The stock bearings on the Saltists and older Toriums, for that matter, are basically crap, and should be replaced with ABEC5's from Smoothdrag.com, or ceramics from Boca, if you're feeling ambitious.
Thanks for the confirmation on the water problem. I realized it was a problem 6mos. after I purchased the 50 and the bearings went. Reel is now about 2 yrs. old . Tried to tell it like it was and everybody continued to praise it. Don 't like having to perform maint. and do upgrades that should have been done before the reel was manufactured ! Try to take-down my reels once a season (with reasonable usage ) and feel if it has to be done more often they have manufactured crap. Kind of blunt but my opinion. When I get some time will try and get a little more technical with the fin-nor #s drag. All I 've done to this point is crank both my saltist 50 and ofs16 drags to max. with both spools full and the ofs16s line seems to come off harder than the saltist 50. Amazing nobody has found out the ofs16s drag capability from fin-nor !
