Another trade reel, Ted Williams VI

[CincyDavid]

It is also marked 535-414980 and an EM date stamp. Needs a good cleaning but seems intact other than that.

[CincyDavid]

Good grief, I opened it up and found this...

[happyhooker]

You are putting together some interesting reels.  Looks like the last one is a "victim" of the "goop it" method of reel lubrication (i.e, if a little lube is good, then a ton of it will be great!)

Frank

[oldmanjoe]

That`s a dozen reels worth of grease !

[CincyDavid]

I feel like somebody took a trowel and just filled that reel with grease. It didn't stink and was not dried out, thankfully.

[rcmsangab]

Wow! That has to be some kind of record! How did they even get that much in there?

[MarkT]

The Ted Williams reels were made for Sears? An oldie like that was made in US. That much grease looks like a China reel! I guess US reels were made by those who were below their grease quota too!