@@TheFishingKit I've heard about adding magnets to reels, this is the first video I have seen it done, do you need to add something ferrous to the spool for the magnet to work?
@@jonnywaselectric No, just as long as the spool is aluminum (which creates its own magnetic field when it starts revolving) the eddy current from the magnet acts against the magnetic field the spool creates and slows it down - the installation I made on this video is actually a very simple one, you can find really fancy and high tech ones in reels with magnetic braking systems like the penn squall and Fathom II 15 DCS, lots of reels out there with Magnetic brakes and can be really fine tuned - this is a Ghetto install :D Just wanted to slow it down so it fits my casting style. Try it out, honestly very easy to do and cheap - you just need to get the magnet as close to the spool as you can, if it's too much, you can take a spacer (washer) off to back it up a bit. You need to juggle things around a bit until you find what fits you, and thats it...you can cast without worrying too much about backlash :D
@@TheFishingKit very interesting thanks for explaining how it works, I only have a couple overhead reels and I won't be casting them, one is the tiagra 50 and the other a tyrnos 50, I use them for catching sharks so kayak the baits out
Would have been nice to do that if the spots I plan on going to have car access, but most places need a walk down a cliff or some other reason...But Yup, if you can paddle out to drop baits, probably the next best thing to using a drone! :D
How much of the slowdown was from the cast control knob? I've tried doing it myself on Talicas but wasn't too successful, I think because of the extra mass of the spool and that it was hard to get magnets close enough to work with what I could make. I can cast Trinidads and Toriums easily by just adjusting that knob.
These dont havr cast control knobs, if you are talking abiut thr knob on the handle side, thats the spool tension knob. Tightening that for "cast control" will break your reel in the long run
@@TheFishingKit spool tension knob, I got that crossed up, but I'm sorry you absolutely won't break the reel. That's what it's there for, read any baitcaster manual. We use star drags, including the toriums, in California extensively for casting lures and adjustment of the spool tension knob is common knowledge, nor has anyone ever experienced a reel failure for doing so. For bass fishing you see it more for adjusting lure rate of fall as well, but its primary purpose is aid with casting. The difference is that the constant friction slows down the spool at the beginning of the cast whereas braking systems slow the spool when it's moving faster, which helps towards the end of the cast.
@@rideHPD Actually, that's not what they are there for. but if it doesn't break with you, then that's great. If you look at the surf casting guys, who do a lot of casting with those types of reels, they echo the same thing. This is what I am using this reel for by the way, there are reels with magnets to slow the spool down instead of tightening the spool tension knob coz of this. It's not a type brake.
I'm not buying it. I would add something to the spool as well as to the side plate. Otherwise, there is no magnetic attraction. Aluminum isn't enough to do this.
Hi, It has nothing to do with Aluminum per se, it has a lot to do with the magnetic field created by a revolving ferric spool/surface. You can google it, in Physics, it is called "eddy current break". Also check out some awesome reels like the Penn 525 or the Daiwa 7HT (made the world record cast), Which by the way, utilizes an aluminum spool and magnets. Same concept as baitcasters with magnetic brakes. Only this one in the video...is a static system and in a larger scale.
It's an old model reel :) The Toriums are built quite sturdy though, plus the new models are quite different now - they haven't updated the 50 yet though...
Is there a follow up?
The spool is non ferrous, how will the magnet slow the spool?
The spool in all the Toriums are aluminum :)
@@TheFishingKit I've heard about adding magnets to reels, this is the first video I have seen it done, do you need to add something ferrous to the spool for the magnet to work?
@@jonnywaselectric No, just as long as the spool is aluminum (which creates its own magnetic field when it starts revolving) the eddy current from the magnet acts against the magnetic field the spool creates and slows it down - the installation I made on this video is actually a very simple one, you can find really fancy and high tech ones in reels with magnetic braking systems like the penn squall and Fathom II 15 DCS, lots of reels out there with Magnetic brakes and can be really fine tuned - this is a Ghetto install :D Just wanted to slow it down so it fits my casting style. Try it out, honestly very easy to do and cheap - you just need to get the magnet as close to the spool as you can, if it's too much, you can take a spacer (washer) off to back it up a bit. You need to juggle things around a bit until you find what fits you, and thats it...you can cast without worrying too much about backlash :D
@@TheFishingKit very interesting thanks for explaining how it works, I only have a couple overhead reels and I won't be casting them, one is the tiagra 50 and the other a tyrnos 50, I use them for catching sharks so kayak the baits out
Would have been nice to do that if the spots I plan on going to have car access, but most places need a walk down a cliff or some other reason...But Yup, if you can paddle out to drop baits, probably the next best thing to using a drone! :D
What magnet did you use and where do I get one
neodymium magnets, can search for them online.
How much of the slowdown was from the cast control knob? I've tried doing it myself on Talicas but wasn't too successful, I think because of the extra mass of the spool and that it was hard to get magnets close enough to work with what I could make. I can cast Trinidads and Toriums easily by just adjusting that knob.
These dont havr cast control knobs, if you are talking abiut thr knob on the handle side, thats the spool tension knob. Tightening that for "cast control" will break your reel in the long run
@@TheFishingKit spool tension knob, I got that crossed up, but I'm sorry you absolutely won't break the reel. That's what it's there for, read any baitcaster manual. We use star drags, including the toriums, in California extensively for casting lures and adjustment of the spool tension knob is common knowledge, nor has anyone ever experienced a reel failure for doing so. For bass fishing you see it more for adjusting lure rate of fall as well, but its primary purpose is aid with casting. The difference is that the constant friction slows down the spool at the beginning of the cast whereas braking systems slow the spool when it's moving faster, which helps towards the end of the cast.
@@rideHPD Actually, that's not what they are there for. but if it doesn't break with you, then that's great. If you look at the surf casting guys, who do a lot of casting with those types of reels, they echo the same thing. This is what I am using this reel for by the way, there are reels with magnets to slow the spool down instead of tightening the spool tension knob coz of this. It's not a type brake.
I'm not buying it. I would add something to the spool as well as to the side plate. Otherwise, there is no magnetic attraction. Aluminum isn't enough to do this.
Hi, It has nothing to do with Aluminum per se, it has a lot to do with the magnetic field created by a revolving ferric spool/surface. You can google it, in Physics, it is called "eddy current break". Also check out some awesome reels like the Penn 525 or the Daiwa 7HT (made the world record cast), Which by the way, utilizes an aluminum spool and magnets. Same concept as baitcasters with magnetic brakes. Only this one in the video...is a static system and in a larger scale.
“MM” is millimeter my guy
yup :) made a mistake there...coz I don't have scripts and was doing this freehand. Hope this video was useful to you Tony. 👍😀
What the f with shimano the bearing is not shielded?
It's an old model reel :) The Toriums are built quite sturdy though, plus the new models are quite different now - they haven't updated the 50 yet though...
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