Knocking sound from baitcasters

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Slazmo
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Re: Knocking sound from baitcasters

Post by Slazmo » Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:29 pm

Handle shaft axial bearing play can be a factor - it's a sum of all parts.
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Re: Knocking sound from baitcasters

Post by filthyPhil » Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:06 pm

Slazmo wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:29 pm
 Handle shaft axial bearing play can be a factor - it's a sum of all parts.
Both of my reels are less than six months old. I have suspected the bearing inside the zero adjuster ball bearing C from the schematic.
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Re: Knocking sound from baitcasters

Post by LowRange » Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:06 am

I think its slop in the gears and the pinion teeth are smacking the main gear theeth. My LINs don't do it but have the same slop in the in pinion yoke but super tight gearing. With the reels that do it the noise comes when I rock the spool back and forth but a split second after the spool pin contacts the pinion yoke.
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