My old evos drag issue?

[elmoputney]

Just been cleaning up my old diawa emcast evos, with a view to maybe sell/use on some other rods I haven't bought yet but may in the future, 

On two of them as you fully lock the drag it makes it hard to turn the handle, therefore you can only wind it nicely  with a semi slackened clutch, is this due to drag washers being 20 years old and possibly knackered or something else? They've never been serviced or that well looked after and they also sound a bit diawa noisy 

Any ideas please? Is it worth doing anything with them? 

 

[framey]

15 minutes ago, elmoputney said:

Just been cleaning up my old diawa emcast evos, with a view to maybe sell/use on some other rods I haven't bought yet but may in the future, 

On two of them as you fully lock the drag it makes it hard to turn the handle, therefore you can only wind it nicely  with a semi slackened clutch, is this due to drag washers being 20 years old and possibly knackered or something else? They've never been serviced or that well looked after and they also sound a bit diawa noisy 

Any ideas please? Is it worth doing anything with them? 

 

If you are going to sell them I would service them it might get you more money for them.

[elmoputney]

31 minutes ago, framey said:

If you are going to sell them I would service them it might get you more money for them.

I've enquired with future reel servicing about the cost of it 

[elmoputney]

They can't be fully serviced as they are too old it would seem, he told me that the drag issue may be down to water and grit getting there, so I may just take the drag apart myself and see if I can't improve them 😂