Mitchell almost had it right

[GHETTOWRAPPED]

The beautiful 402, a prizefighter with a glass jaw.  I have personally destroyed many gearsets using just 17# mono!


This VS150 was on the bench, compare the gear teeth direction to the 402. All the reels are left hand crank.


Out of the Mitchell graveyard, I pulled the axle off a stripped out 402 main gear.


Also, I dug up a 403 main gear and removed its axle and swapped it with the 402.  Of course, the 403 pinion will be installed in place of the 402.


As far as the planamatics, I'm gonna put braid on it so the crosswind would not be necessary(?) It may even give a nice even line lay.


I'm a big fan of the 302 look, so I put the new gearset in a black housing, with only the red selector and power knob. The chrome handle weighs twice as much as the standard military issue.

[oldmanjoe]

  The down fall most times is small Main bearing with a grade  ABEC 3 .   Sloppy tolerances  and backlash will kill gears fast .