Unusual reel made by pentagon called sea lake

[Fishgolfman]

This is a reel made after WWII in los angeles by a former war contractor. It has two different spools. A wide and narrow spools. It is completely stainless steel. Thinking of using it for local salt water use with 20lb  monofilament backing with 100 yds of braid. Looking for a narrow spool. Easy to remove spool by loosing two screws on each side.

[oldmanjoe]

    Steve   Your local salt water use , wound`t be Stripers in the river would it ? 
 It would be a work out for sure ..  Nice reel ..

[Gfish]

Cool!
Completely stainless-steel. No wonder it looks "thin". What are the drag washers made of?

[jurelometer]

Cute reel.

Looking at the spool walls, I would consider not putting any mono on that spool.  Maybe fill the whole thing with braid that won't stretch so much.  Dacron might be a lower cost option for the backing.

-J

[Crab Pot]

Very similar, in design only, to the Argus Number 575 I recently bought.

Except your reel appears to be of much better quality.

Nice score,

Steve

[Fishgolfman]

Jurelometer
Reasoning for not using monofilament backing.. have old dacron sitting around

[jurelometer]

Jurelometer
Reasoning for not using monofilament backing.. have old dacron sitting around

Is that a question?


If so,  nylon mono stretches under load- since the line gets longer, the diameter decreases.  When you wind under load, the wraps on the spool are thinner, but once the load is gone, that stored energy from stretching is going to go into returning to the original diameter - which means that the wraps on the spool are going to push against each other, and eventually against the spool walls.   

That reel was designed before monofilament became a thing, so the spool was not designed to take the expansion load.

Dacron and gel-spun polyethylene braid both don't stretch much.

-J