Hi, just to let folks know in case it may be useful to others
I bought an AKIOS 656 CTM from my local tackle shop (lough swilly fly and angling centre), I was very happy with it from the start and to be fair its done lots of fishing but almost always was washed in warm soapy water though not often oiled as it seemed to march on faultlessly (like the hilux on top gear). However after about 18 months of this the anti reverse bearing began slipping (and severly reprimanding my knuckles for being so close to it ) So a proper strip down and thourogh clean was in order, however this revealed that the anti reverse bearing was disintegrating, with the rollers splitting A quick phonecall to akios was on the cards to source a new bearing and enquire what special care was required to prevent this, was I loading too much pressure on it with the drag, etc, The very kind gentleman their explained that initially they did experience this tendancy on an early batch and this could be one of them, and what age might the reel be, I explained it was now out of warranty and in any case I hadn't even bothered to fill out the warranty registration card (which was still in the origional box along with the schemetic for dismantling/rebuilding) At this he kindly gave me an address of their warranty/service centre and offfered to have it fixed free of charge if I would be happy to cover cost of sending it over to the UK.
Just today I received my nice shinney akios back by courier all fully rebuilt and ready to fish