Another customer badly let down by a reel manufacturer’s own “workshop”; this time it is a $1500 reel written off, and the care factor of the service centre is zero! I receive a reel for service from a local tackle shop: customer says reel hard to wind, bail arm tight, the list goes on… Start […]
Accurate Boss LD with the obligatory pinion support bearing stuck in the sideplate. Tried all the usual tools, tricks (including harsh words and expletives) but no movement. It didn’t have much rotation due corrosion etc so I thought it was time to go full retard on it. Out came the drill, selected the next size […]
So I get a phone call from a customer who tells me that one of his mates has pulled up his 8000SW Stella previously lost in 25m of water at one of his favourite GPS marks out wide. I guess that actually hooking it is more than astounding; it is impossible! Anyway, this reel was […]
I had a reel brought to me that had come back from a factory service. There was a misunderstanding by the customer because the bail wouldn’t trip. A quick look at the body/rotor flange showed no bail trip ramp, so I told him that it was a manual trip bail. All good, but it was […]
Hands up anyone working on reels (or any device for that matter) who has managed to destroy the heads of those cheesemetal screw heads? Anyone? Yeah, me too – and I did for many a year working on everything from reels to cars to motorcycles to aircraft. Then I happened upon a mention of JIS […]
So in comes a Calcutta 400D; locked up and the level wind is actually displaced into the RH sideplate. Something has come adrift, and I reckon I know what… Carnage had ensued as the plate worked it’s way around the sidecover and took out the LW idler gear and the AR pawl. The hole in […]
Magoil is NOT a lifetime product, it will degrade over time (maybe 3-5yrs in ideal conditions) and eventually turns into a rusty mess. This is due to it’s ingredients: it is basically some derivative of magnetite (which rusts almost instantly when immersed in salt water) coated with a surfactant (to prevent the magnetic particles from […]
