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eelskimmer, I know, with 6 reels, even I can't believe that I've never done the drags before. Mostly because the setups are my guest bottom fishing rods on the boat and as I now use the 3 - 40-series light-tackle setups for most of my bass/casting fishing, most of the bottom fishing we've been doing doesn't rely on the drag all that much.
I've had the sideplates off and grease the insides every year, but never have touched the drags but will surely do them now and even go whole-hog and buy new HT-100 washers and replace everything this fall/winter. Over the years I had 2 "stems"/the part that connects the reel to the rod break on account of my having installed rodholders on the wrong side of the transom gate so the outboard woudl swing up and hit the reel and break that stem, so I've had to buy new housings and take all the parts off the broken reel and install them on the new body, but never touched the drags.
For now, I will take all the collective wisdom/experience and at least clean and reassemble them this upcoming weekend.
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