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Tinman , Nope , no experience at all with spectron , levelwind and non levelwind reels or even fishing in general. Just pulling it all out of my butt.
Oh wait I forgot , I went through everything you are talking about in 1997 and decided to fish Spectron on levelwind reels. I seem to remember doing all the hoopla changing bearings and removing levelwinds on Mag elites and trying them with both whiplash and spectron putting them back on with levelwind bearings from C4's so it had bearings on both ends and doing the rocket fuels and abec 7 bearing dance and buying Whiplash and tossing it and finally settling on the BG 7000CL with 50 Lb spectron. .
Anyone using 50 lb or less whiplash with a jig that weighs more than 2 OZ is setting themselves up for disaster. I know guys who use 65 LB Ok at the canal. I think if I used whiplash , I'd want 80 pound or so.
I don't know what you are doing that is giving you overruns do to the way the line is laying down on your spools. I never had the problem in 8 years of using 35 Lb or 50 LB Spectron on 6500 Abus , 7000 Abus , 9000 Abus or Calcutta 250's , 400's or the big Calcutta (700?). My guess is you're casting technique is lacking something and therefore you are blowing up reels and blaming your line.
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