What's your thoughts on this? 5mm spacer to match the 5mm VISX Handle on the Fathoms.

Glad you found a fix on the visx handle.

Thanks. Was curious how the shop fixed my issue. Just told me he added a spacer. I took my handle apart and didn’t see anything. Now I know where it is located.

THATS IT! Thats the last problem I ran into with this upgrade, in my last post I was wrong about the button shifter reaching fine, it doesn't. Mine started slipping really bad in low gear. This is because of that 4mm spacer which doesnt reach into low gear all the way, after mine slipped the first time it chipped a some material off the gear which made it slip worse and worse. It was fixed with a like 2mm spacer that I made myself, which took forever since i had to keep opening it up to space it perfectly, and that fixed the problem perfectly. There is a pretty clear difference that it reached much better in high and low, when you pop out of low gear it pops all the way, without the spacer it doesnt go as far out. I have done hours more of testing and I believe this is the last issue we will run into with this upgrade. Absolutely 0 problems with it in testing.

I admire your follow-thru and persistance. Appreciate the updates. Interested in seeing how it goes on the water. Tight lines.

That’s really awesome that they gave you all that stuff. Very cool.

Nice brotha! Keep it going!

Another simple solution would be to use the spacer from the VISX in your Fathom. It might need to be ground down a bit though, but much less work…

i hope this fixes the problem! However, i feel like this would be a more temporary fis and you can find a more suitable replacement for the spacer. definitely a lot of ingenuity tho!

I admire your determination. With all the interest in customizing handles it seems like either you're not looking in the right place or there's a wide open potential for making customized handle sets especially for all the higher end reel models. Or, a third option is you're just obsessing over this particular handle LoL.

just grind off the original stud and swamp the knob handle like you did on the other , don't make a storm on a glass of water 😁

So in order to add the 16visx handle u needed to change the spacer out as well? Im super confused as i just bought the handle to put on my 60ld2