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Stradic FL plastics

Post by Slazmo » Sat Sep 14, 2019 3:17 pm

Hi Dan.

Can you confirm that the body half on the new Stradic FL is XT7G* plastic or a revised lower end / Ci4 / non mentioned composite?
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Picture attached of the body half showing what seems to be some sort of fibre in the PA, but just no denotation of +GF?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Stradic FL plastics

Post by Bantam1 » Mon Sep 16, 2019 5:07 am

I'm not sure what composite they are using.

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Re: Stradic FL plastics

Post by lifeofRiley » Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:41 am

So the side of the frame that includes the stem and reel foot is aluminum and the other side of the body is a composite? Is this how most aluminum framed shimano spinning reels are?

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Re: Stradic FL plastics

Post by Bantam1 » Mon Sep 16, 2019 12:55 pm

That's how the Stradic has been for a long time. There is more support in the Aluminum now compared to past models. We have never seen an issue with the reels and they are very rigid.

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Re: Stradic FL plastics

Post by Slazmo » Mon Sep 16, 2019 2:51 pm

Bantam1 wrote:
Mon Sep 16, 2019 5:07 am
I'm not sure what composite they are using.
Any chance of finding out or is it secret squirrel stuff? I'm just interested as the previous iterations of Stradic with the half alu half plastic always mentioned the XT7G plastic, this particular reel has been disregarded all together.

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Re: Stradic FL plastics

Post by Bantam1 » Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:00 am

I'll ask

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Re: Stradic FL plastics

Post by Bantam1 » Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:48 am

The QC engineer said "Unspecified" so in other words we aren't disclosing it.

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Re: Stradic FL plastics

Post by Slazmo » Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:00 pm

Interesting...
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