Slow Ambassadeurs

[Rancanfish]

I bought some Made in Sweden reels years ago for loaners.  I ended up letting everybody use some others I had.  So they sat and sat in a cabinet all this time.  Now they have no free spool spin to them.  I think the original grease just hardened up.

Now my question;  do I just open them,  carb blast the bearings, re-oil, and I'll be good?  Nice, solid, almost 100% new shape, but lazy rolling spools.  (2) 5600ws blue/gold 4 bearings, and a 6500C3 silver w/3 bearings.

I want to sell them off but not willing to do a full service. Will that get me rolling?

[PacRat]

More than likely your lack of freespool stems from the levelwind mechanism. Just for kicks you could remove a tailplate and put a couple of drops of light oil on the plastic gear to loosin it up then put it back together and give it a couple of casts to see if it needs more work or not.

Good luck
Mike

[tholmes]

If they've been sitting for several years, I'd be inclined to tear them completely down and do a deep cleaning and re-lube. Flush the bearings (don't forget the levelwind bearing in the 5600WS) clean the old grease out of the gear train, lube 'em up and you're good to go.

Tom

[Bryan Young]

Hi Randy,

How much do you want to sell them for as is?  PM sent.

Bryan

[Rancanfish]

Well, I found that if you follow Alan's tutorial and clean the spool bearings and the level winds, your reels get much smoother.  

After a little research I found these to be considered desirable by the Abu crowd.  Not rare but desirable.

I guess I don't see the attraction. But Bryan does.

Thanks Bryan. Enjoy.

[Bryan Young]

Thank you. They are great little reels. One is going to my daughter for bass fishing. She is a pretty good flipper.