Braided Line Spooling

[osmy22]

Braided line is pretty expensive and the small diameters do not seem to fill up most reel spools. I try to use the entire spool,with mono backing, since any unused portion doesn't fill up another spool. The question is the following....
Since braid has a smaller diameter, how do you gauge the amount of backing used so as to use most of the braided line and fill up the reel also? Many a time do I finish the purchased braided spool and find that I did not use enough backing to top off the reel spool. Any thoughts?

[herbertrhudy]

dont laugh tooo hard and I'll tell ya a trick I figured out
everyone has 1 old junk reel thats not fishable....right?
well now its a spooling station!but if you have several you will be respooling use a good reel!take the ''old'' reel ya want to use and spool the Braid on then tie on and fill it up with the mono backing(I use the 2$ stuff from wallyworld)then put it on the reel you are going to fish with..........wham!!!!!!easypeasyjapaneasy
may take a few trys to get it just like ya want but,it works
now remember dont laugh toooo hard

[osmy22]

This is brilliant! I will see what I can do. thanks......keep ideas coming please.

[bass-ackwards]

....What I do is spool the old off one reel onto another....That way you are useing the bottom or unused off the old spool which will now be on top on the new one...<>rob<>..

[overthetop]

That is a good way to do it. You should post this in Clever Tips and Ideas.

Kevin