Poor torium
Submitted by Chris fish on Mon, 2013-01-14 21:01
Here's a couple of photos from when I serviced my torium 50, this reel has caught well over 20 sharks over 2m and hooked so so many more and some monstourous rays!! The gears and bearings are all still fine with little or no wear considering its spent it's life on full drag with 14kg+ of pressure constantly. The drag washers are almost non existent with hot spots on the steel washers. New set of drag washers are on there way and she will be good to go again. Just goes to show that you don't need top of the line to catch big stuff.
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Spitfire56
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Interesting post
Amazing, might need to pull a couple of mine apart
Uluabuster
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Had the same problem with my
Had the same problem with my Abu baitcaster before. All the drag materials disintegrated and jam up the reel. And it was an after market drag upgrade too!
Ben Derecki
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Shredded!
Put that baby through its paces for sure.
Cool pics.
Albee Mangles
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Hammered!
Dont see that everyday, good for another 100000!
Thanks for sharing!
cuthbad
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The toriums are unbreakable
The toriums are unbreakable hey!
The only part on my 30 with much wear is the anti reverse dog/pawn, which will need replacing soon. And been through a few sets of washers, but they never got as messed up as yours, jeezuz!!
sunshine
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I would be sending those photos
To the manufacturer with some of the captures as well - bet they would be interested in the feedback, given the hard ( no let us be fair - extreme) life it has had it is in amazing condition and the wear of the drag washers is somewhat understandable
Great post !
pharlap
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Possibly off subject & Sorry
Possibly off subject & Sorry for my ignorance, just learning about appropriate equipement, but can I ask ?
I looked up this Torium 30 reel, and it's advertised as a "Trolling" reel, which I take/thought as/was dragging lures, baits out behind the boat etc.
Do I take it that this is a very much versatile reel being able to beach fish sharks, obviously with a weighted rig on the bottom.
Could this type of reel even though advertised as a "Trolling" reel, (and as shown in this case a gun at beach fishing sharks) be suitable for say bottom bouncing, for Dhuies, Pinkies etc etc
I allways love the photo's were you guys lay the caught fish alongside of the rod used, or where I can say see the size type rod/reel setup used to catch the size fish in the photo.
Any comments greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
Chris fish
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These toriums are great
These toriums are great casting reels along with saltist and saltiga star drags and also Trinidad's. As shown they are very strong and more than capable of 200kg+ fish if set up properly with the right lines ect.
I serviced my Trinidad at the same time and that is so much better inside ( ok it hasn't caught as many big things) with no wear on gears and much cleaner inside and little wear on the carbon fiber drag washers and this has been fished the same with its life on full drag agaist 100kg+ sharks
always looking for a new challenge!!
JohnF
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hahaha, I have an okuma T20
hahaha, I have an okuma T20 that got fried on a big beach shark......the drag WAS NOT up to the job..........pulling it apart this week, expect similar outcome!
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
Chris fish
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I've had this get warm a few
I've had this get warm a few times now but the last monster I hooked went nuts and the reel was actually hot to touch after the first run being so fast and powerful, once again against full drag and 6-700m of line pulled in under a minute. I have a fair idea that's what did it and it started getting sticky after that haha.
always looking for a new challenge!!
woody
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Thats a pretty good effort!
Thats a pretty good effort! Just out of interest what rod do you run it on and what line/topshot?
Chris fish
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I used to have it on a
I used to have it on a shimano catana overhead but now it's on a posiedon bantam 5 with 1100m of 55lb pe4 saltiga boat braid with 300m of 24kg platypus low stretch mono. I've tried breaking 24kg but just can't do it so heavier one just wastes line capacity.
always looking for a new challenge!!