Next time you go fishing lower the reel slowly into the sea and let go.
Then get a proper reel from Abu or Daiwa.
Cheers
Gordon.
"Mike" wrote in message
...
The family gave me a Okuma CN 45L multiplier reel for my birthday 2 month
ago - The clutch seems to work fine, checking by setting for slipping
against a weight but I can only wind in a weight in the region of about
2lb
else it just locks the winding mechanism. - Its had about 7 hours use in
two
boat trips and despite following the advice of gentle washing in fresh
water
and a light spray of oil the star drag has started to peel badly. It looks
like the star drag is made of plastic with a coating of silver paper
though
the rest of the reel looks ok. - The manufacturers website in Taiwan is in
their language and the UK destributor (Svendsen-Sports) doesn't list a
telephone number though I did email them at lunchtime. - Anybody have any
advice? - Glad I didn't get any of the ling the chap next to me got
yesterday, up to about 14lb and a bag of roughly 120lb in 4 hours. I was
struggling with small cod and cuithes. - Mick