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Advanz Two-Speed Reel
When you do go fishing with this Advanz reel, you’ll find that these features give you a chance to fight harder, fight longer and fight with less fatigue. While all reels have a limit of durability, we purposely over-designed the Advanz reels so that you can test your saltwater skills to the limit.
$140.00 – $559.99
Product Details
Prepare yourself for a pleasant surprise
This Advanz Conventional Reel is full of features you’d usually pay much more to own:
- A CNC billet-machined main frame which provides the maximum possible frame rigidity.
- Cold forged aluminum side plates match the mainframe for greatest strength and provide the best parts alignment.
- A CNC billet-machined spool ensures maximum material consistency and strongest line support.
- All # 404 stainless steel heat treated gearing provides superior strength plus corrosion and wear resistance.
- A stainless steel foot means that your reel will always have the strongest possible attachment to your rod.
- Cold-forged adjustable aluminum lever drag which will provide years of dependable use.
- An ON/OFF spool clicker that broadcasts an audible alarm when line is being stripped from the reel.
- A dual positive anti-reverse system means consistent, maximum stopping strength.
- The comfort-touch grip helps keeps your hand from fatigue and in the fight for hour after hour of hard fishing.
- The spool shaft is sleeved between the bearings so the spool can be filled directly with 100% braid without spool collapse-no need for backing.
- Ball Bearings are “Tenex” shielded stainless steel for corrosion resistance and a long trouble free life.
- The two speed selector switch is stainless steel and has an “O” ring seal to prevent water intrusion into the reel.
- The drag lever base has a water proofing seal underneath to prevent water intrusion into the reel.
- Drag material on the Q12-2 through Q30-2 is carbon fiber.
- Drag material on the Q50-2 and Q80-2 is pure Teflon, with the optional carbon fiber drag washer included.
- A rod clamp is also included which is made from high strength solid Graphite with stainless steel hardware.
Qualia Reels –
Q50-2 Review
If you’ve been following angler management in the development of some of the new reels that we have been working with Qualia on, then this review will seem very similar to our selfish series real, the 14WAM.
With the abundance of big sharks, and wahoo that we have here on the south east coast of Florida, we needed to build something that can stand up to heavy trolling at high-speed’s, as well as something extremely powerful for our customers to fight large sharks with and not tire out. Day in and day out abuse means we need a reel that can perform day in and day out without break down that’s where you’ll see the 50 wide that we have built is simply overbuilt.
You’ll notice a simple high-quality 3 piece corrosion resistant aluminum frame. We also added the notched drag feature as well as a notched preset so that unknowing customers or folks fighting fish cannot slip either of these at any time or while trolling/underway.
When you remove the left side plate via 4 Phillips head screws it will reveal a large 3/8″ spindle which the spool sets on, this needed to be overbuilt for durability so that there would be absolutely no flex when under heavy load. You’ll also note Taiwanese bearings which are extremely high-quality and many consider to be the best on the market.
Next, by removing 7 of the flat head screws, stainless steel by the way, you’ll have access to the right side and when you pull it off the first thing that you’re going to notice is yet again, an incredibly simple yet beefy design. There is a large stainless steel (2-speed) gear that turns a large stainless main/pinion gear which operates the spool. This is notched using a large 3/4″ square fitting which will never wear away or fail. This is a very beefy and oversized gear that we could put into this reel giving it powerful speed when trying to retrieve line. As your examine the ball bearings you will see that the spool sets on three high-quality well oversized Taiwanese bearings, including a large 1″ anti reverse bearing. You’ll notice like the 14WAM reel, a larger right side bearing to handle the thrust load of the drag so that we can fish both low and high drag settings without having any additional pressure on the right side of the school, or “binding” which is very common in some lever drag reels on the market nowadays. We also went with the International style clicker for indestructibility. Also note the use of two anti-reverse dogs for ultimate strength. The final thing you’ll notice that there’s absolutely no plastic parts whatsoever you’ll see that everything is high quality stainless steel or brass.
When you remove the drag pressure plate, via 4 stainless Phillips head screws you’ll see a large Teflon drag washer that is heavily notched in 6 Places into the reel as well as greased with a very special teflon grease that is capable of high heat and 30-50 pounds of easy drag.
Finally, as you remove the one piece solid aluminum spool you’ll also notice that it does not sit on a spacer like our other new models. This eliminates an area where any debris or build that can occur maintaining beautiful free spool in the reel not only the day you take it out of the box but even after a year with heavy salt water use. You want dependable power, here you go!