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 .

[cbar45ive]

Good info modding 403 gears to work in a 402. What tools are you using to pull and re-press the gear back onto the axle? I wish they had made 402 gears out of bronze as in the bigger saltwater high-speeds, but like Joe said gear alignment is only as good as that single bearing holding it all together.

[Gfish]

Can not figure-out why they put those shims up in there with the tiny rotor ball bearing? I wish I had the tools/skill to ream one out for a larger-especially thicker bearing.

[oldmanjoe]

Were they put that shim between the bearing and the bushing ?  I just slid on a new bearing onto a new pinion  and it was sloppy , there is no friction fit at the shoulder of the pinion

This movement is the pinion wobbling around , plus the bearing should go into the housing a little deeper for a good pinion mesh with the ring gear .  Or have a shim between bearing and pinion shoulder . When it is that sloppy and you put the main shaft in ,you can see how bad it is , and the backlash is terrible .

  I did ream the pocket deeper , now have full engagement with ring and pinion . Third picture and now have the main shaft tighter in the center and little backlash in the gears .
   
 I still going to play with this , I want dimple the pinion shaft for a tighter bearing fit . 
 

[cbar45ive]

They used the oscillation slider to take up the slack in the bearing.

Looking forward to seeing if dimpling the pinion's a cure to rotor-rock.