1016 BFS Reel

[LowRange]

Steez (new and old), TDZ, T3, Zillion SV TW all accommodate 34mm spools. All can be considered bfs candidates. The trick is finding the one with the best braking magnet polarity for your specific spool. To play it safe, my suggestion would be a Steez or Zillion SV TW, T3, or POSSIBLY a TDZ.... Unless you like your reels fast and maybe wild. Which spool are you using?

Is the DIY the matte finish 103/1016 or is it one of the older 1016 or 103 glossy spools? The only difference is the spool shaft is slightly longer on the oldee 1016 DIYs. They used to have separate 103 and 1016 sized spools then merged them. I would try and find an SS SV 103 or 105 for $100. There is a righty 8:1 105 on a Japanese site in their used reel section for close to that.

I'm down to try any reel, just want to free up my Zillion SV TW. I can fish a wild reel fine, doesn't bother me. The spool I am using is the newer DIY glossy honeycomb style spool. Weighed 8 grams with bearing on my cheap scale. It isn't that new extremely light one that showed up on Ali about a week ago though, I think that one has a fixed inductor, mine has an SV style...

The older spools of a year ago where glossy. These spools came in either a 1016 or a 103. Later satin finish spools were a 103/1016. I don't know if there are any actual differences between the spools or if they just changed the marketing. In either case you should be fine. A 1016 spool with fit a 103 reel by backing off on the spool tension to accommodate the longer spool shaft. It is when a 103 spool is placed into a 1016 reel where problems can occur.

[DirtyD64]

So I assume with those bearing counts, these reels have 4 on the spool/pinion, then 1 on mainshaft, 1 anti-reverse, and 1 in each knob for the 1016. Some sites list the Ballistic as having 5+1, but either way I think these Daiwa reels only had single main gear support (w/ an anti reverse bearing too), as opposed to almost all Daiwa's now, even without free floating spools, have 2 main shaft support bearings...

No they are 2 bearings plus the AR bearing on the main shaft on the 1016, never had the ballistic so cant confirm.

Guess the T3 1016 has 2 on main, 1 anti-reverse, 2 spool, 2 pinion, and 1 on the levelwind for 8 total? I forgot but that is how the SS/SV is, no handle bearings...

[Hogsticker2]

So I assume with those bearing counts, these reels have 4 on the spool/pinion, then 1 on mainshaft, 1 anti-reverse, and 1 in each knob for the 1016. Some sites list the Ballistic as having 5+1, but either way I think these Daiwa reels only had single main gear support (w/ an anti reverse bearing too), as opposed to almost all Daiwa's now, even without free floating spools, have 2 main shaft support bearings...

No they are 2 bearings plus the AR bearing on the main shaft on the 1016, never had the ballistic so cant confirm.

Guess the T3 1016 has 2 on main, 1 anti-reverse, 2 spool, 2 pinion, and 1 on the levelwind for 8 total? I forgot but that is how the SS/SV is, no handle bearings...

It's been a while, but if I recall correctly, the 1016 had two handle bearings. Maybe not though