Luvias Maintenance

[SimonT]

I am after a bit of advice with regard to some maintenance on my Luvias 2500. Recently whilst hooked up to some unknown beast, which now has 125yards of 8lb fireline and some backing trailing behind it unfortunately, I was using my hand to periodically increase the drag pressure. After the fight was over I noticed that I had inadvertantly created a small area of damage on the body of the reel where the spool edge had been rubbing against it. I am aware that there is a special coating on the reel to protect the magnesium component of the reel material from corrosion, and am concerned that I may have breached this coating.

Does anyone have any ideas of what I might be able to use to reinstate this protective coating?

Thanks,
Simon

[swoffa]

Some of my older Luvias's have scratches all over them and they don't seem to be corroding. If you're worried you should send it to Daiwa Australia for a service, it'll only take about a week.

hahaha adding extra drag pressure with your hand on a Luvias...
Thought they had awesome amounts of drag pressure by themselves....lol

Musta been a nice fish mate! As for the coating, do you know what type of coating it is?

[Doomy]

I don't think Luvias have a coating.
Airmetal is a alloy which includes magnesium but doesn't corrode.

Daiwa statement

The lightness of resin and the strength of aluminum are ideal factors needed for fishing reels. The material that meets these two characteristics is magnesium alloy.
However, magnesium alloy is very difficult to process, is corrosive and is not an attractive metal. Therefore, it had previously been ruled out for fishing reels. But finally, the magnesium alloy reel was created after finding an efficient processing method, developing an anti-corrosion method and experimenting with various painting methods.
It took more than 5 years to develop this amazingly light, yet strong and still very attractive, AIR METAL reel


Original magnesium reels where coated.

[SimonT]

Thanks for the repies guys.

I hope you are right Doomy as I had a bit of a slip up on some rocks over the weekend, and there are now few more bigger scratches on the reel......

Also I am thinking about getting a smaller Luvias and am tossing up between the 1500 and 2000. Another thread said the body size of the 1500 and 2000 is the same and the only difference is the spool size (they also seem to be the same weight). I would have thought the bigger spool would help with casting due to the bigger loop size, and hence I am thinking the 2000 would be the better option.

Has anyone else out there got an opinion?
Simon

[craig scott]

Have a look at a Luvias 2004, lighter than 2000 shallow wide spool. Hard to find though.

[SimonT]

From what I have read on other posts they are a lightweight version and not as "tough" as the standard models. From reading my previous post you can see that I need something pretty "tough".......

[swoffa]

Originally posted by craig scott
Have a look at a Luvias 2004, lighter than 2000 shallow wide spool. Hard to find though.

Steer clear of the 2004 if you want something robust, the 2004 is strictly a finnesse reel.