Exactly 88 components

[JasonGotaProblem]

I've noticed a lot of reels, especially vintage reels, seem to have exactly 88 components, when every screw, washer, and spacer is counted.

The list includes many penn senators, some penn SS reels (my 750SS for example), my daiwa SS700 and SS1300, and several others that I've bothered to count parts on but didn't bother to commit to memory.

Is there any documentation on this being intentional? A piano has 88 keys, and there are 88 named constellations. So there's a part of me that thinks designers saw this as adding a degree of, for lack of better word, elegance.

Or is it all just some coincidence?

[Bill B]

To continue your theory white prison gangs have adopted "88" as part of their racist ideology.  I don't want to expand here but I will in a PM.  Bill

[philaroman]

don't Asians consider 8's "lucky" the way we view 7's...  more so, even?
kick an 8 over on its side & it's infinity 

[Shellbelly]

Oh, Man!!  Lots of miles can be covered in this discussion.  Interesting observation....and the fish is a symbol of....

[oldmanjoe]

   I gots this feeling that you must have sucked on a toosie pop today.

[Swami805]

Earnhardt jr car number. Wasn't there an Oldsmobile 88?

[Reeltyme]

I feel 88 today, does that count?

[Shellbelly]

Wasn't there an Oldsmobile 88?

Rocket 88.  A Battleship. 

[oldmanjoe]

I have a 88 T Bird and now,It looks like a challenge to add more drags to my reels to get to that 88 count.

[Finest Kind]

Wasn't there an Oldsmobile 88?

Rocket 88.  A Battleship. 

I had a 1966 Oldsmobile Rocket 88! 425 cu. inch "Ultra High Compression" engine. What a beast! Plus the 8 track sound system. Great memories!

[Shellbelly]

I had a 1966 Oldsmobile Rocket 88!

Amazing!!  I had a '73 Delta 88 Royale 2-door.  Wore out a Dark Side Of The Moon 8 track tape in that car.  Spun a bearing going 110.  Dropped a rod and oil went everywhere.  That was that. 

This is too much fun!

Jason, you started this.   Triggered everybody!  LMBO!!  Sorry, Man.  You might want to wrangle this back on the trail!  Or not.

[ExcessiveAngler]

I have a 88 T Bird and now,It looks like a challenge to add more drags to my reels to get to that 88 count.

Is that the five speed manual, turbo coupe, by any chance, Joe?
My buddies was slow off the line, he had the automatic lol!
I used to be able to fly, through them gears, like nothing lol!

[JasonGotaProblem]

It's ok. I derail far too many threads to be mad if mine goes sideways.

I was 2 in '88. I probably had some cool hot wheels cars. And I probably thought they were fast.

[oldmanjoe]

I have a 88 T Bird and now,It looks like a challenge to add more drags to my reels to get to that 88 count.

Is that the five speed manual, turbo coupe, by any chance, Joe?
My buddies was slow off the line, he had the automatic lol!
I used to be able to fly, through them gears, like nothing lol!

I had 2 88 t birds , the blue one had 302 / 5 speed .  the black one 302 / 4 speed in line shifter

[funhog]

There's  pretty good Song a few years back titled "88 lines about 44 women" by NAILS
http://www.the-nails.com/88lines.html