Anyone on the forum make custom size carbontex washers?

[TLHSS]

I'm happy to pay for time and materials.  Thanks!

[WRB]

Smooth Drags makes Carbontex drag washer for every reel, suggest contacting them.

Tom

[MN Fisher]

It's not that hard to make your own

Items needed

Carbontex Sheets - can get off Amazon

Calipers - to measure diameters and thickness of your original washers - even cheap Harbor Freight ones will work

Circle cutter - to cut the main discs out - Any craft store

Drill - open the center hole to proper size - if you got a Ryobi or similar, just need some bits

X-Acto knife - clean up the inner and outer edges - craft store again

Block or semi-thick sheet of basswood or balsa - do all your work on this

Cals Tan - THE grease for carbontex washers, as the old jingle went "Just a little dab will do you."

 

Measure your washers

Cut out with circle cutter - don't try to do in one pass, you'll want to gently do this so will take quite a few passes....might even need to replace the blade before you're done

Center hole drilled out - there should be at least a divot from the circle cutter's base point.

Gently clean up with the X-Acto

Just a touch of Cals, massage in, wipe off any excess.

Repeat as many times as you need for a full stack.

Mount in reel - don't forget the steel spacer washers or the order everything went.

[WRB]

Smooth Drags cost about $2, why waste time and buy sheets of carbontex when you need a new drag washer made perfectly?

Tom

[MN Fisher]

17 minutes ago, WRB said:

why waste time

I built Bass Trek to my specifications instead of finding a boat that met 'most' of them

Searching for a rod carrier for shore fishing....none of them met my needs, so I built one,

Finding a motor dolly for sale that met my requirements for height/width was impossible...so I built one.

 

Every time I use a reel that I made the carbontex washer for...and they work perfectly, I grin to myself and think "I did that!" and feel a sense of pride.

 

So don't diss us by calling it 'a waste of time'...cause to us it's NOT a waste of time...it's an investment in our self-worth.

[WRB]

Offer the OP to make it his drag washers.

Tom

[Alex from GA]

I'm with MN on the DIY thing.  If the washers aren't perfectly make it's not a big deal.  I've been making my own for since before Penn had carbon drags and they've all worked much better than stock.