scorpion bfs
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Congrats on the new addition to a nice fleet of combos! Best of luck with your testing
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I was going to test mine but I've moved and it's still in storage somewhere... can't wait to hear your report on it
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The performance of mine is very good and the retrieve is very smooth. But have a look at the gear material: you will be very surprised...
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I've been waiting to hear about these before I pulled the trigger on one. let us know what you think.
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Are they different gears than the curado 70???-Boris- wrote:The performance of mine is very good and the retrieve is very smooth. But have a look at the gear material: you will be very surprised...
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What material is it?-Boris- wrote:The performance of mine is very good and the retrieve is very smooth. But have a look at the gear material: you will be very surprised...
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It seems to be plastic, maybe POM. At first I was a little bit shocked,because I expected a brass gear - but a buddy of me (a mechanical engineer) says that POM is a very good material for gears and other small mechanical parts.
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Would love to see a picture, just read for a while on different polyoxymethylene compounds and realized my favorite childhood toy was made from it. K'NEX (like rod and connector Lego's but harder to build)!!! Either way, I have K'NEX still sitting in an outside storage shed (extreme heat and cold every year) and they have been there for 15 years. All the little parts are a little chalky looking but still very strong last I checked. There are actually little gears for building machines, randomly about the size of a casting reel main gear and they are solid as metal it seems. If it is POM related material I wouldn't worry too bad. Not sure why they wouldn't just use brass though and save the trouble, just carrying over parts I would imagine saves a lot of trouble.-Boris- wrote:It seems to be plastic, maybe POM. At first I was a little bit shocked,because I expected a brass gear - but a buddy of me (a mechanical engineer) says that POM is a very good material for gears and other small mechanical parts.
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Its probably how they got the weight down to barely under 6 oz. Would have still preferred metal though-Boris- wrote:_20170620_104015.JPG
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I agree, if I had to have a composite frame or composite gears, I would take the composite frame. Maybe the thought is with light lures and light line it doesn't matter.Bootytrain wrote:Its probably how they got the weight down to barely under 6 oz. Would have still preferred metal though-Boris- wrote:_20170620_104015.JPG
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I mentioned the frame because that's how I would have mainly focused on lowering weight, or does it already have a composite frame too? Either way I think I see the pinion's build is brass. Isn't the worm levelwind plastic on these models too?
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Ok I just saw this article http://kakedzuka.com/2017/06/shimano-sc ... rive-gear/ hes one of the Hedgehog Studios design guys, he says the drive gear is duralumin(with pics). Frame is aluminum.DirtyD64 wrote:I agree, if I had to have a composite frame or composite gears, I would take the composite frame. Maybe the thought is with light lures and light line it doesn't matter.Bootytrain wrote:Its probably how they got the weight down to barely under 6 oz. Would have still preferred metal though-Boris- wrote:_20170620_104015.JPG
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I mentioned the frame because that's how I would have mainly focused on lowering weight, or does it already have a composite frame too? Either way I think I see the pinion's build is brass. Isn't the worm levelwind plastic on these models too?
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I wish they'd stick with all brass gears. I'd put up with the extra weight.
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And I would pay extra money...mark poulson wrote:I'd put up with the extra weight.
But I cannot imagine that the drive gear is made of (dura)aluminium - because why should they anodize it black?
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