Polishing inner brake ring or drum actually make brake more consistent and will make it more 'sticky' and you should not put any oil. When your line a bit jerky and your brakes sound rattle during casting, time to clean inner ring and tips of brakes block. A clean brake inner ring sound buzzing during casting. Any scratch on that part should be polish to mirror like surface. I use fablusture jewel rouge and dremmel tool to polish.
I’m really interested in acquiring one of these reels, I think is would be easier to cast smaller lures with one. Kinda like a low profile reel (which I don’t care for very much) am I correct in this assumption?
Orange shield is good for preventing dust. "Open-bearings" (shield less) is more friction free, so I can cast a longer distance cast. But I should maintenance the reel more often. Thanks for watching!