Avet Lever Drag Adjustment

[giantfan]

Good info Gerry, Thanks!

[reefsquater]

Anyone else here planning on sending their Avet to Gerry for upgrades?

[Sails and Tales]

Gerry, I came across this thread while doing a search for Avet drag updates. Did the cam and washer install work for you? Would just the washers do the trick or is the cam a must?

I purchased 4 Avet LX6.0 for sailfishing and the drag curve is unusable for my purposes.

Thanks.

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by Sails and Tales

Gerry, I came across this thread while doing a search for Avet drag updates. Did the cam and washer install work for you? Would just the washers do the trick or is the cam a must?

I purchased 4 Avet LX6.0 for sailfishing and the drag curve is unusable for my purposes.

Thanks.

not 100% sure Sails.... I know the cam itself did not give me what I wanted. Only thing it did was remove the click notch from free to bait setting so now there is no bait setting and the drag still ramps up much too fast... I never did order the washers so not sure if it works but was told by Avet support you needed both so it does not ramp up too fast.

[MrAC1980]

Gerry maybe I'll load up one of SX's with the extra belvilles and bring it with me to the Xmas party and you can bring the cam and we can match them up and try it...?
I actually have 3 SX's on my workbench now, maybe I'll give this a try tonight with the stock cam and see if there is any diff.

[Gerry Zagorski]

That would be great Ant.... Now if I can just remember which SX I put the cam in... Sucks getting old

[MrAC1980]

Haha well that i can't help with! What I can tell you is that I tried the different belleville's and it does make a slight difference. Def don't put three sets as it pushes the spool too far out of position that can be seen in the below pic. I think without the cam it won't do exactly what I think you're trying to (a livelining setting). The right setting is right above the first check and you can't really get it to stay there. On my next Avet order maybe I'll just grab one and give it a shot and report back, unless Gerry you can get your memory back!

[Gerry Zagorski]

Should be easy for me to tell which reel has the cam Ant. Once I winter store the boat and get all my gear off, I will make sure and find the reel with the cam and we can screw around with it.

If we could get it to work right that would be sweet... It would be great to have some sort of line out adjustment for applications like dead stick drifting Fluke and live lining Striper. I'm also thinking we'd need to do some field testing on some Florida Sailfish with Sails and Tails just to be sure we have it right. It's a dirty job but hey......Someone has to do it

[Sails and Tales]

Ok thanks Gerry. I'll call them to figure out if I can get by with just the washers. I'd love to keep the bait setting if possible since I do a lot of kite fishing with very light drag however if I need to lose it to get the drags right so be it.

As for the field testing, we're just starting to get into sailfish season...

[Gerry Zagorski]

The guy in customer service is great. Let me know what you find out Sails. I was told you needed both the cam and the washers and you have to remove the Pusher Bushing you can see in the schematic above in my earlier post.

I'm likey to be headed down to Port Saint Lucie in January to visit some family. Is that a good time for sailfishing?