Scuba Choice Diving Stainless Steel Heavy Duty Multi-Purpose Dive Reel 290ft

This item is NOT stainless steel

Lo usé una vez y dejó de funcionar, pésimo producto.

I used this for the first and only time during a shallow reef dive. It's a heavy duty reel, but the functionality is not good. Any bit of slack in the line creates a backlash effect and the string wraps around the inside portion of the reel (in between the spool and the frame). This causes the string to lock so you cannot dive any deeper. This happened three times during a 20 minute period, forcing me to end the dive prematurely. Adding a guide to limit the string's lateral movement would do wonders for this reel.

The spool doesn't hold as much of the replacement line as I hoped to use but that is not the fault of the seller. Planning to hold on to it for another project.

I own a Borzoi puppy and do not have a fenced in yard so I've trained him to run/frolic on 100-200 ft ropes (500 lb paracord from Home Depot). After several months of it getting wrapped around my legs and giving me severe rope burns and scars and spending 15-20 minutes several times a day detangling it to get started, I looked for a reel to use. I tried cheap large plastic extension cord reels and two types of dive reels. This one is the heaviest, best made, with best features. My plan was to remove the dinky rope from this and replace it with the thin paracord but, though the rope fits through the feeder slot, the paracord is such a bigger diameter than what comes with this that less than half the line fit on the real itself so it doesn't work for my use. It's a real shame because nothing else is as easy to use/control. It's possible I could find some really high tensile strength rope that's a smaller diameter but it's probably out of my price range.The string that came with this lasted a few weeks til it just up and snapped when the rope was stuck on a branch and my puppy took off (at the time it broke he weighed about 45 lbs and now he's over 60 and half grown).The hand grip is comfortable, hard, but easy to use. The slide lock has 3 settings- stop, go with clicks, and full out go. The clip hardware is fine, I'd probably trust it (strength wise) when my dog is full sized I just don't like the clip type (easy to accidentally unclip so not safe for a dog that's bred to take off and not come back easily).