Reels are the hottest topic for TackleTour. Everyone wants to know what the latest and greatest is and how they compare to the old guard. What's the best for light stuff, or what's your suggestion for heavy cover. Do we really need different retrieve ratios? It's all in here.
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by hoohoorjoo » Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:04 pm
Hobie-Wan Kenobi wrote:
The SS AIR has a moving inductor, like an SV reel. The SS AIR Stream Custom had a fixed inductor but, that reel did not have 8.1 gears. The Stream Custom version had green color kinda like the Alphas AIR Stream Custom.
My SS Air has a fixed inductor and it came to me new from Japan that way.
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by Hobie-Wan Kenobi » Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:56 pm
hoohoorjoo wrote:Hobie-Wan Kenobi wrote:
The SS AIR has a moving inductor, like an SV reel. The SS AIR Stream Custom had a fixed inductor but, that reel did not have 8.1 gears. The Stream Custom version had green color kinda like the Alphas AIR Stream Custom.
My SS Air has a fixed inductor and it came to me new from Japan that way.
Mine is SV style
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by DirtyD64 » Sun Jan 06, 2019 9:22 pm
It looks like the picture of the SS with the fixed inductor still has the C clip to hold it on, not saying that means there is a spring, just seems most fixed inductors are solidly attached...
Really cool find if they are different.
I had always known:
SS Air-SV style
Alphas Air-SV style
Air Stream-Fixed
Never owned any, just had read so far that the Air Stream had a fixed inductor.
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by hoohoorjoo » Mon Jan 07, 2019 5:28 am
My rotor will not move, no rotating, no wiggle at all.
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by Hobie-Wan Kenobi » Mon Jan 07, 2019 7:56 am
hoohoorjoo wrote:My rotor will not move, no rotating, no wiggle at all.
I had a different SS AIR a couple years ago and its rotor twisted
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by ss30378 » Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:05 am
Hobie-Wan Kenobi wrote:hoohoorjoo wrote:My rotor will not move, no rotating, no wiggle at all.
I had a different SS AIR a couple years ago and its rotor twisted
Mine was this way too "twisted", the air brake system.
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by poisonokie » Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:32 am
The Air Stream Custom rotor is fixed, but it wiggles a little. The sv ramps are solidly glued together and there's a spacer between the rotor and c-clip, but the rotor itself is loose enough to turn back and forth a few degrees without any in and out movement at all.
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by jvelth74 » Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:57 am
For me sounds like that they have used SV style axle for this AirStreamCustom. If so, this is good, because then it might be able to custom to SV inductor. If somebody want’s to do it.
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by Hobie-Wan Kenobi » Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:01 am
jvelth74 wrote:For me sounds like that they have used SV style axle for this AirStreamCustom. If so, this is good, because then it might be able to custom to SV inductor. If somebody want’s to do it.
Id say its very possible. Ill look at my Stream Custom later and see. I think others have talked about u fixing the inductor
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by jvelth74 » Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:11 am
Yep. Maybe SV inductors can be converted to fixed style with AirStreamCustom parts. Nice.
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by Hobie-Wan Kenobi » Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:53 am
jvelth74 wrote:Yep. Maybe SV inductors can be converted to fixed style with AirStreamCustom parts. Nice.
Fixing would be easy. Unfixing may be a bit more...permanent.
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by jvelth74 » Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:19 am
Yes! But also non-permanent fixed type might be possible if parts of AirStreamCustom are interchangeable to other reels.
