112H senator aluminium spool different than normally found.

[steelfish]

few weeks back I was doing a complete and deep service to a 112H senator that was given to me as a gift, it was throw away on a forgotten tool box with lots of missing parts, I ordered them and completed the reel.

well, this is the aluminium spool that this reel has, kind of weird if you ask me, I havent seen any other spool like this one before
check it out







its in two parts, should I keep the drag on light setting or it will be good to fish 30# mono line on 10-12# drag?
it feels really sturdy if you ask me

in order to avoid problems when using braid line, I plan on using 40# mono line as backing then 150yds of 65# braid and top it with 30# mono, and using it only for inshore fishing.

by the way, the reel is using the next Keta parts

two SS dogs (double dogged )
Octagon insert on the main gear

[Alto Mare]

Alex, that spool looks pretty neat to me and it appears to be a Newell. Check on the side, there might be the letters CN.
Very nice.

[mhc]

Alex, that spool looks pretty neat to me and it appears to be a Newell. Check on the side, there might be the letters CN.
Very nice.

I think Sal is correct, I have one that looks the same - it's a 2 7/16" wide "tuna special" from Randy Pauly. Here's what Randy said about it;

"It has the original style Newell spool which was staked with two pins through the hub.  There is a slight gap between the two halves of the spool, but this is common with those spools and I have never seen one spread.  I have included a pair of Newell aluminum Tuna Special cross bars which give the reel frame added rigidity......"

Mike

[MarkT]

Looks like a CN on the clicker side of the spool.

[steelfish]

well after what Mike posted about the spool, pretty much its sure its newell, doing a close up with the original pics I found the "CN" letters on a side of the spool  that Sal pointed out, so, Newell spool it is.






thanks guys, I feel more comfortable using it now

[reel man]

What you have is a very early Newell aluminum spool for the Penn conversion kits.  They had two drift pins pressed thru the arbor to keep the spool halves from spinning on the spool shaft.

[steelfish]

What you have is a very early ...

Everything that is "Very Early" and its still on use, is good in my book.

I Will keep this reel and spool under my personnal collectible reels, but since I have many inshore reels, this one might see no much regular action, but I will try to use it from time to time.