I haven't, mine were ok from the off...….. Me being lazy. If anything they load a mega fraction top heavy, but seriously negligible and only noticed when they were fully loaded, by a few strands. I will probably adjust when I re load...… You get plenty of spare washers and spool savers too..... You'll need the spool savers, if you are buying the 14000's, or you'll end up with about 600 yrds of line on each spool...….. I'll dig them out later and see which size spool savers I used, I'm pretty sure it was the largest ones, but still get 280 yds of technium black 14lb on them.