Who in the Summerville/Charleston area works on TLD’s? I need to get some drag work done.
Atlantic or Haddrell’s.
I use a Rick in Tampa - mail them and he ships back fast…
http://www.ricksreelservice.com/
25’ SeaPro
Steve at Haddrell’s works on mine. Worth the drive.
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Originally posted by boatn19I use a Rick in Tampa - mail them and he ships back fast…
http://www.ricksreelservice.com/
25’ SeaPro
X2 on Rick he does a great job at a great price.
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I work on TLD’s. Can update to carbon fiber drag and service at a very reasonable expense. Will kill many fish with no problems and good free spool.
Do your reels need to be repaired or does it need a routine service? The TLD is a super easy reel to service. Could do it yourself, if you’re interested. Google Alantani’s website. Has a good pictorial. All you’ll need is some drag grease, reel grease, set of new drags and some basic tools. If you want to get more in depth, can also change out the bearings whether you need to or not. The parts are easy to come by. Takes about 30mins-1hr first go around for a basic service but after that 30 mins tops unless you have to repair something.
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Originally posted by YnRDo your reels need to be repaired or does it need a routine service? The TLD is a super easy reel to service. Could do it yourself, if you’re interested. Google Alantani’s website. Has a good pictorial. All you’ll need is some drag grease, reel grease, set of new drags and some basic tools. If you want to get more in depth, can also change out the bearings whether you need to or not. The parts are easy to come by. Takes about 30mins-1hr first go around for a basic service but after that 30 mins tops unless you have to repair something.
Not really sure what this one particular one needs. There is not much difference in tension from the strike position and free spool.
Alantani is where I get all my information for parts, reel repairs, and upgrades. I have never charged any of my friends for servicing and upgrading their reels. If you are not interested in doing the work yourself I would service your reels for you but I encourage you to go on Alan’s web site and there are great tutorials on how to service and upgrade with specific parts that you need. Alan will sell all the specific drag washers and parts or can direct you to the part supplier that you may need. Below is shimano parts link for TLD’s
https://fishshop.shimano.com/vip/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT<>prd_id=845524441848557
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Originally posted by YnRDo your reels need to be repaired or does it need a routine service? The TLD is a super easy reel to service. Could do it yourself, if you’re interested. Google Alantani’s website. Has a good pictorial. All you’ll need is some drag grease, reel grease, set of new drags and some basic tools. If you want to get more in depth, can also change out the bearings whether you need to or not. The parts are easy to come by. Takes about 30mins-1hr first go around for a basic service but after that 30 mins tops unless you have to repair something.
Take a look inside. I promise you, if you can run a boat offshore, you can repair a TLD. Plus it’s fun to know how it works too (at least for me) and I get annoyed about paying someone to do a simple fix when I know I could do it easily.
Was coming on here to mention alantani’s website but I see it’s been mentioned. There’s some great tutorials about modding a tld so you get great free spool even at higher drag strike settings. On the same note, smooth drag has awesome carbon fiber upgrades for pretty much any reel, although the tld is a little more expensive than most. I’ve upgraded almost all my reels that don’t have stock carbon fiber and a $6-10 upgrade with some Cal’s drag grease makes a huge difference.
As mentioned by others, TLDs need almost no maintenance and are very simple reels by design. Therefore, any reputable repair shop should be able to give you great service.
Once of the great things about a TLD is a completely sealed drag “module” that rarely if ever needs maintenance. I have 3 TLDs from 5 to 15 years old, and I have only ever done drag maintenance to ONE of them in that time period. Don’t get me wrong, I am meticulous in my annual reel maintenance, and regularly rebuild the drags and replace washers for all of my other reels, but never the TLDs (they never need it). So, hopefully your TLD just needs some basic care.
Lastly, just my opinion, but I would NEVER replace TLD drag washers with anything but Shimano original equipment replacements. I love replacement drag washers from the “smoooth drag” company for all of my other reels but TLDs have one of the smoothest drags that I’ve ever used! I’d put the drag smoothness of a TLD drag up against any reel that costs 10x as much. For this reason I think the TLD is one of the best price/performance reels, and drag systems, ever built.
One last thing I can recommend with your TLD (or any reel) is to always tighten the drag before you rinse it at the end of the day, then, back off the drag and store the reel in freespool (with clicker on). This will reduce stress to all reel components and keep from unnecessarily compressing the drag washers. In addition, per the instruction manual, always put a TLD in freespool before changing the drag adjustment knob.
Good luck with your repair and hopefully you’ll get it back as good as new.
Link to Shimano TLD rebuild and drag upgrade to Carbon fiber drag. The carbon fiber is more durable and as smooth as the canvas drags that come stock in the TLD’s. Carbon fiber is an upgraded part that is found in the two speed TLD version and other higher end shimano reels. I have upgraded all of my TLD’s to carbon fiber with very good results. All the smoothness with more freespool and less susceptible to contamination, overheating,and other failures. I had several of the canvas drags fail due to grease from the bearings contaminating the drag plate and reducing the drag to almost Zero. Canvas Drag failure often occurs from moisture, grease or other contaminates soaking the canvas washer.
TLD 20/25 Re-build
http://alantani.com/index.php?topic=36.0
TLD 15 rebuild.