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Fishing oz style _ Tackle Talk _ Okuma
Posted by: poly May 19 2007, 02:49 PM
gentleman i have an akuma titus t20II that will not engage free spool the reel has been strip cleaned and regressed, this has not helped at all, so any help u can give would be appreciated
Posted by: SUMOFISHIN May 19 2007, 04:32 PM
Poly if it is the spool that wont release, take it off and strip the clutch, if it is the reverse wind , seperate the gearbox and check that the spring hasn't jumped off and locked it in the wind position.
Posted by: fish May 20 2007, 01:07 AM
Mate.... return it and damand your money back...bastards 
Posted by: Scales123 May 20 2007, 02:43 AM
Im with fish Poly i have seen this happen twice myself one was abrand new reel not even used in anger yet.
Posted by: Arnie Dog May 20 2007, 02:59 AM
B)
Poly I know the lads at Freetime(Okuma) pretty well. If you give them a call and ask for Tony in the reel repair section he will look after you. Tell him you spoke to a writer from Fishing World and he told you who too ask for. You will always catch more bees with Honey my man the Vinegar B) The Dog
Posted by: Scales123 May 20 2007, 11:10 AM
Poly I know the lads at Freetime(Okuma) pretty well. If you give them a call and ask for Tony in the reel repair section he will look after you. Tell him you spoke to a writer from Fishing World and he told you who too ask for. You will always catch more bees with Honey my man the Vinegar B) The Dog
I think Okuma have the best service department bar none quickest turnaround and very reasonable costs.The only thing is it shouldn't really happen in the first place should it.Hardly a isolated incident
Posted by: Jumpus GooDarus May 20 2007, 12:32 PM
Well poly !
That will teach you to buy a reel from Queensland
It probally needs a banana or 2 
Posted by: Arnie Dog May 20 2007, 04:35 PM
If it is not an isolated incident people should ring and tell them. You can't fix something if you don't get feed back on a prob. Personally I don't own an Okuma but I know the lads there are all great blokes and will help B)
Posted by: xtosea May 22 2007, 03:49 AM
I had the same reel, it happened to mine but i hocked it! Could not stand the bloody thing.
Kamil
Posted by: STEVE.P May 22 2007, 04:06 AM
Not to a guy named POLY
Posted by: Jumpus GooDarus May 22 2007, 04:11 AM
It's probally the same REEL
Wodger bought it then palmed it off to poly 
Posted by: xtosea May 22 2007, 01:28 PM
You never know it could be the same one! Poly, you get it from Dundas? lol
Posted by: fish May 22 2007, 02:11 PM
Welcome X ....NO Poly didn't ...it,s a enough to make a 
U so funny.
Posted by: poly May 24 2007, 07:16 PM
its fixed after striping cleaning and greasing to no effect and a lot of head scratching i was at my wits end and ready to send it to okuma for repair. JG thought that if i hooked the line up to the car and ran it out this would free it up, this did not help at all in fact it made it worse locking the reel completely. wile removing the reel from the rod i dropped it on its end plate which dad the effect of freeing it a little so what the hell i bang it a couple more times and it free up completely, so if it should happen to u just give it a good belt .
Posted by: Arnie Dog May 24 2007, 09:20 PM
after striping cleaning and greasing to no effect and a lot of head scratching i was at my wits end and ready to send it to okuma for repair. JG thought that if i hooked the line up to the car and ran it out this would free it up, this did not help at all in fact it made it worse locking the reel completely. wile removing the reel from the rod i dropped it on its end plate which dad the effect of freeing it a little so what the hell i bang it a couple more times and it free up completely, so if it should happen to u just give it a good belt .
[color="#FF0000"][/color][size="7"][/size]Send it back to Freetime. When you least want it to play up I can assure my good friend it will B) The Dog
Posted by: poly May 24 2007, 09:39 PM
it will be going back arnie the last thing i wont is for it to lock up on a good fish
Posted by: STEVE.P May 25 2007, 12:09 AM
yeh they might fix it and send you a complementory hamer to go with it
Posted by: Jumpus GooDarus May 25 2007, 12:51 AM
Very simple poly !
You never put it back together correctly something was ajar & when you dropped the reel it re-aligned itself
What I had suggested would've worked if it were a simple case of high spots on the drag they would've smoothed themselves out
Posted by: poly May 26 2007, 02:56 PM
yes JG you are wright about the drag but i feel it is an underlying problem with the reel so back it go's to AKUMA
Posted by: fish May 27 2007, 12:51 AM
Posted by: poly May 27 2007, 04:07 PM
has anyone got a photo of fish smiling, lets face it with my reel busted JG WORKING and fish going to goat shows stevep to crook to get out of bed and aenie's bad hip scales123 freezing hows left to catch them thay must be laughing there heads off
Posted by: STEVE.P May 27 2007, 04:14 PM
we should have a disabled section
Posted by: poly May 27 2007, 04:18 PM
we could call it whinge weekly
Posted by: STEVE.P May 27 2007, 04:26 PM
weekly whinge guide
1 whinge per 5 posts so rack up those frequent flyer whinges
Posted by: SUMOFISHIN May 27 2007, 06:58 PM
I Think we do have a disabled section, AND WE'RE ALL IN IT
Posted by: poly May 27 2007, 08:19 PM
Posted by: STEVE.P May 27 2007, 09:19 PM
does this mean monday night is pill and pudding night 
Posted by: Rum Dust N Ruckus May 27 2007, 10:26 PM
im too far away from everything!!!!
but im going to get a fish tank and repetedly catch the same fish!
Posted by: Jumpus GooDarus May 28 2007, 12:56 AM
Hey Rum if you ask poly nicely he might loan you his okuma to catch that fish with
ps] watch the drag it locks up every now & then dont want you getting spooled in that fish tank people will laugh @ you
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