Originally Posted by
Salkin
OK thanks.
The steel outdrives are standard on the 418 and I already have them on the 417v5.
True, I have observed that it is in the front that 99% of the plastic cap breaking occurs.
The point is that the 418 uses blades on the spool whereas the v5 does not.
If you replace the outdrives on the spool with non-bladed ones then you won't break blades. I use the Roche outdrives. Obviously there is a risk that if you remove the blades you will break something more expensive but I was having blades break mid-race for no particular reason, since changing to a non-bladed outdrive I haven't broken a thing.