Upgrading right hand plate on Newell S229-5?

[hobobob]

Hello everyone, I am servicing a friend's Newell S229-5 reel at the moment. This reel has plastic bearing cap on left side and non removable on the right side.  Since the right side bearing is a pita to get to, I plan to upgrade it to a plate from the P. G unit with a removable bearing cup so he does not have to take the whole reel apart to get to the bearing.  My question is, if I only switch the handle side plate, will there be any issue with spool alignment? Or it is better for me to do both plates?

[alantani]

if you have extra side plates to switch, you should be able to do so with no change in alignment.  you'd have to just give it a try and see.  hopefully it will not be a problem. 

[hobobob]

Thanks for the reply Alan, I have a P235 plate coming from ebay. Now the question is hunting down 1 big and 1 small bearing cap / cup. Big cup for the new plate, small cap to replace the plastic one on the left side plate.  I found someone was doing titanium ones before on this forum, is he still active and still selling them?

[Tunacious]

PM Alan or Bryan Young...they may know who sells them on the board. I believe Charkbait also sells replacement cups/caps.

[Newell Nut]

I got some titaniums from Bryan. If he is out you can get SS from chowderpuff7@yahoo.com. His name is Gregg Chow.

If all you have is the right side plate then everything will work okay. It is just a cosmetic issue with the odd left side plate.