Lots of salt.

[alantani]

Yeah, we need to talk.

[alantani]

Cleaned.

[Swami805]

Ouch!!  Is that an international?

[Gfish]

Can it be saved?

[oldmanjoe]

 I would fill it with JB weld .   I know the camera makes it look like Moon craters , but to eliminate the water pockets .

[quang tran]

#### happens

[Hardy Boy]

I agree OMJ. Jb and then smoth over.

Todd

[oc1]

I'd just clean, sand down any abrasive spots and slather some grease on it.  JB can lift from a concavity and make it's own burr.  To get a surface clean enough for JB to stick you would have to grind out more material. 

[alantani]

typically, i have an hour to get a reel like this back on the front lines.  it goes on the winder and i spin it like crazy.  then i take an old swiss army knife and gently hold the dull blade against the surface of the spool to take off any loose salt, then take a look at the areas that are badly cratered.  for those areas with deep pits, i'll carefully dig out the salt with that same old pocket knife.  then i go in and scrub with a toothbrush loaded with yamaha grease and fill the craters, wiping off the excess grease with an old rag.  after that, it's the standard 2-3 layers of flex wrap, the braid goes around the arbor 4-5 times, i finish with a 6 turn uni knot and spool the reel up. 

this level of failure is probably due to a couple of things.  one, the spool was not initially treated with grease.   i don't use car wax. when i comes to salt water corrosion resistance, i'd trust the engineers at yamaha marine before i'd trust the guys that make turtle wax.  the second is that the braid was spooled on way too loose, allowing salt to slide in on the side.  and third, it is possible but not for sure, that the salt attacked the entire spool surface and found some weak spots in the anodizing.  i am no expert on metal coatings, but the possibility of weak spots in the surface coating might explain the appearance of corrosion in some areas and not others. 

i dunno.  all i know for sure is that i've just gotta fix these things in short time alloted and get them back on the water.   

[Gfish]

Yeah.
For my own reel I'd add 1/2hr for a vinegar soak.

[day0ne]

I had a Tiagra 50 that was worse than that. I blame bad anodizing.

[boon]

My 2c is that you only get that much salt from one cause: putting the reel away wet with seawater. You basically can't hurt an offshore reel with fresh water, mine get absolutely doused with a low pressure hose after they've been anywhere near salt. You could probably do worse than dunking them in a bucket of fresh water for half an hour, especially if you've had a lot of braid out and there's salt deep in the spool.

[alantani]

My 2c is that you only get that much salt from one cause: putting the reel away wet with seawater.

yeah, that.....   

[boon]

My 2c is that you only get that much salt from one cause: putting the reel away wet with seawater.

yeah, that.....   

I'm sure you see it plenty Alan - it always makes me a little sad when I see high-end reels come in that have been, to use a blunt word, neglected. Maybe the anglers in question have enough money that letting a $1000 reel "rot" doesn't worry them.

[ourford]

I know this will sound crazy to some of you, but I de-spool my good reels after every use. I soak the line on the plastic spool in salt-x and then let it dry. I have a spare line for each reel if I need to use it again before the original line dries.