17 Scorpion DC Gears

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17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Tony9 » Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:27 pm

Just curious if the Curado 70/200i gears will directly swap with the new JDM 17 Scorpion DC. Thanks!

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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Bantam1 » Tue Jun 06, 2017 5:33 am

I do not know the answer to this. I will not be able to get it until next week when our QC guy is back from Japan. Biannual meetings taking place there right now. It will be difficult to get any help until they are done next week.

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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Tony9 » Tue Jun 06, 2017 8:36 am

Bantam1 wrote:I do not know the answer to this. I will not be able to get it until next week when our QC guy is back from Japan. Biannual meetings taking place there right now. It will be difficult to get any help until they are done next week.
No worries. Thanks!

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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Tony9 » Thu Nov 01, 2018 9:27 am

Bantam1, any updates to this?

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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Bantam1 » Fri Nov 02, 2018 5:07 am

I forgot to follow up on this. Curado 200I gears should work but let me confirm. It's 5:00am in CA so I will have to wait until he arrives to get the answer. My apologies for not following up.

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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Tony9 » Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:23 am

Bantam1 wrote:I forgot to follow up on this. Curado 200I gears should work but let me confirm. It's 5:00am in CA so I will have to wait until he arrives to get the answer. My apologies for not following up.
No worries at all. Thanks for looking into this. I bought a 6.3 and it would be cool to have a 7.2 and 8.2 option.

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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Bantam1 » Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:25 pm

Yes Curado 200I gears are the same.

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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Tony9 » Fri Nov 02, 2018 2:29 pm

Bantam1 wrote:Yes Curado 200I gears are the same.
Awesome. Thanks for the quick response

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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Tony9 » Fri Jan 10, 2020 8:18 am

Bantam1,

Just wanted to confirm if the 71 XG gears will also work before I place an order. You only previous mentioned 200I gears.

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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Bantam1 » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:00 am

The reel is based on the Curado I tooling. The gears from the 70 might fit, but technically are not correct.

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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Tony9 » Thu Jan 16, 2020 12:49 pm

Thanks I ordered the HG gears to ensure a proper fit

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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by LgMouthGambler » Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:58 am

CI/CU200/201 and the CU70/71 use all the same gears.
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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Tony9 » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:14 am

That's what I figured but I searched and haven't heard of anyone swapping 8.2 XG gears into their CU 200i.

My original plan was to make this my topwater reel with 8.2 gears. I think going with the 7.2 gears will make it more versatile (cheaper too!) for lipless and shallow cranking as well as topwater.

The HG gears came in and installed fine. A little more gear noise and vibration than the outgoing stock 6.2 gears, which were pretty darn smooth. Hopefully they just need time to break in. Bothered me at first but it'll have to do. Don't know if there is a tolerance difference between the JDM Scorpion DC gears and Curado I gears.

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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by LgMouthGambler » Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:33 am

Tony9 wrote:
Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:14 am
That's what I figured but I searched and haven't heard of anyone swapping 8.2 XG gears into their CU 200i.

My original plan was to make this my topwater reel with 8.2 gears. I think going with the 7.2 gears will make it more versatile (cheaper too!) for lipless and shallow cranking as well as topwater.

The HG gears came in and installed fine. A little more gear noise and vibration than the outgoing stock 6.2 gears, which were pretty darn smooth. Hopefully they just need time to break in. Bothered me at first but it'll have to do. Don't know if there is a tolerance difference between the JDM Scorpion DC gears and Curado I gears.
The higher the ratio, the more the chance at them making noise. Thats my observation anyways. YMMV
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Re: 17 Scorpion DC Gears

Post by Bantam1 » Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:12 am

There should be no noise or vibration. This is probably because the gear alignment isn't perfect since they were not really made for that reel. There is a difference between the 70 size reel and the 200. If they are working and you can live with it, fish on.

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