Spooling spinning with a drill motor?

[Ranger690]

Anyone ever take the spool off, put a machine screw and nut thru it, chuck it in a cordless drill to spool it with line? Since I am incapable of correctly spooling a spinning reel with any conventional method, I am thinking of trying this, assuming I spool it the correct direction and "reel to reel" fashion.

Anyone but me ever done it?

Dayton

[LBM]

Ranger

Give us a report how it works for you. When the spinning reel is laying line onto the spool the spool is moving in an out to evenly lay line onto the spool. I don't thing it will work very well at all.

[tarheel]

Video tape it. There are some shows that will pay $10,000 for stuff like that!

[ribit]

Thats what they do at Academy Sports but they use a line spooling machine instead of a drill motor. You can move the line back and forth with your hand, may need a extra hand. lol

[Ranger690]

Hahahahahaha! Video tape it. I like that. Considering my luck with spinning reels, I could end up with something worthy of television.

Actually, I have spooled line with the drill motor before. With the same results as every other way I have tried it.
1. Spool label facing up
2. Spool label facing down
3. 50% spool up/50% spool down.
4. Spool upright, like spool a baitcaster
5. Completely naked, strobe and black-light on, T.V. on snow channel with volume at max, while chanting "Oomm baba loom, shuk shukk".

None of the above work for me. Still get short casts, loops, twists, tangles, line explosions, etc. (even with reel only filled 3/4 full)

The only postive thing about me spooling spinning reels, is that for every reel I spool, a sock mysteriously APPEARS in our dryer! So that is cool.

Dayton

[whizkids]

Yes I tried that. Found a bolt that fit exactly through the spool. Variable speed drill is the best, so you can set a constant speed. Still I had loops, twist. Two years ago I found a Berkley line winder at a flea market and bought it for $10.00. One of the best purchase I ever made.
They are $23.99 at BPS.


I have tried every way that can be imagined to put line on a spinning reel.
Loading the spinning reel off the spool just like shown here, is the best. I know it goes against most of what you hear and read. You just mount the reel like the baitcaster shown here. Wind it onto the reel. It works. No making sure it goes on the reel like it comes off the spool, etc. etc.. This little trick works for most reels and handles bulk spools.
You can make your own, but finding the materials to keep tension on the spool is a little tricky.

[TwainGang]

One more step. If you know you have twists in your line, spool it completely out on the water if possible (on grass if not possible) and wind it back on the reel with nothing tied to the end of it. That lets all the twists work their way out. Pain in the a--, I know, but it works until more twists form while you're fishing with it.

[fishdoc]

i hold the spool on a pencil tween my feet, wind with one hand , put tension on line with other...throw jigs at brush piles so i get a lot of practice re-spooling!!look at your reel every time you throw the bail... try catching line with your finger at end of cast and lettin bail take it off your finger...seems to work for me ...hope this helps!

[falcon]

Yeah I've tried it with the drill, works great for eliminating twist. The only problem is getting it to go on the spool evenly from top to bottom, since you're now trying to control that by hand.

[CrappiePappy]

I've "thought" about using a drill before, but haven't had to. I put line on with line spool laying on floor - label up - crank a few turns - check to see if line is twisting worse - if so: flip line spool over and finish filling reel / if not: continue filling reel. So far it's worked fine ... with some exceptions. Hi-vis mono lines tend to be a little stiffer than clear/blu mono ... and small diameter reel spools are more prone to the problems you've elaborated on.
I've even heard of people "cooking" the line, before spooling it on (soaking it in hot water), but I haven't gotten that desperate yet :p

From the descriptions you gave about how the line acts, once on the spool ... it sounds like you need a softer line, or smaller diameter or pound test, or bigger reel/reel spool, or another brand of line.
What line are you using - and what reels are you putting it on ?

Twain has a point ... but, you don't need to unspool the whole reel - just the first 50yds or so (just so long as you unspool twice the length of line off the reel, as the distance you can normally cast). I've used both the "dragging thru the grass" and "trolling empty line behind boat" methods. They both have "helped" take a lot of twist out of the line.

Spinning reels, by their very nature, are notorius for twisting line. (spin=twist, as in a spinning wheel twists fibers into thread) Add to that, the tendancy for a jig/bait to spin when it's cast, and you compound the problem while using it !! The line uncoils as it comes off the line spool, then the pickup bail coils the line back on the reel ... that's the design. But it's meant for extremely limp line ... not the memory retaining stuff we try and spool it with. I really don't know why spinning reels couldn't be made where the line spool is turned by the handle ... and the bail is stationary :rolleyes:

Hope someone has given you some info that will cure your ills .........luck2ya ... cp