Longbeach 66 modification?

[sdlehr]

Thanks, Fred. Time to call it a night. I mean a 114 6/0, black, with externally-accessible drags. Sheesh. Hang with me guys, I'll get this figured out 

[swill88]

Maybe I just need to simplify things and just deal with one reel at a time....

i know this feeling!

[Ron Jones]

If you only dealt with onew reel at a time everything would go back together with ALL the parts in ALL the right places, what fun would that be?
Ron

[sdlehr]

I use little round, plastic take-out containers to contain all the parts of a single reel when it has been disassembled and I am waiting on parts before reassembly, much like Fred uses his little cafeteria trays. It helps keep things together and prevents parts loss/confusion. I can keep the parts separate, but my "steel-trap" mind sometimes (often?) thinks about one reel and says something about another. I had to go upstairs twice earlier to confirm which reel needed new drag washers ordered, which one need this or that ordered. When I'm away from them they run together - the Penns are all designed so similarly it gets confusing to my tired old brain.... Hopefully as I do this longer I'll become less confused.

I'm also buying one-two reels a week and opening them up when they arrive. I've seen a lot of new reel guts in the last few weeks, and sometimes they just run together.