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| I have a couple of double tens that I have a hard time getting the blades to spin reliably. Is there any thing that can be done to get them to spin more reliably?
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Location: Oswego, IL | Are they homemade? |
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| No... Some are cowgirls and others are dominatrix. They don't appear to have the shaft bent or anything. Most times the blades act as one, like they're stuck together. |
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | bend both clevis back to a perfect c as when they were brand new. that should do the trick. |
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Location: Oswego, IL | If your pulling them very often and fast they may start to stress and change shape, possibly the actual blade to. Sometimes you may not notice a small change with your eye. Like Muskie man said, check the clevis on them first. Worse case senario, buy a new wire, and use the parts from the ones you got to make new. .52 wire does bend sometimes with fish. |
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| Thanks, I will check them. I have one cowgirl that last year put allot of fish in the boat and more times than not I had to bend it back into shape. A 48" last put a 90 into it and iIt still works perfectly after being bent back. Maybe the need a little kink to get them going??? |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | see the helpful tackle tips board and look at Tackle Industries website. It explains how to get them to run efficiently. |
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Location: Oregon, WI | Thanks for the link info. It was very informative. |
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Location: Wisconsin | Check the Clevis, but maybe a good snap when you begin to retrieve might break them free..... I don't have issues with mine bending or kinking, they don't suffer that. |
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| exactly what muskymetal say,a good snap once they hit the water |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | Stop your DCG10-13 in the air with your thumb on the spool and start reeling your DCG10-13 before it hits the water. As stated above ck your clevis so they are flat on each other and thin blades will flated out over time so to STAMINA and buy some loop wire in .051" or .062" and some new clevies and blades and rebuild them. |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | After a while the blades will somehow start to bend. After checking the cleves to see if they re O.K. the next thing to do is to takes the blades and try and flatten them some. Put your thumb in the middle of the blade and push. Try and flatten the blade. This will make the blade swing father from the shaft, and start easier. Sounds stupid, but this works. The painted blades bend easier than the non-painted blades (steel versus brass), and don't need to be reworked as often.
I do this almost every day on a DCG or two and it works.
Doug Johnson |
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