Polished Penn

[publius]

Go ahead and make fun of me, I can take it. I just spent 2 hours of my life polishing every millimeter of an early '70's Peerless 209 with a felt dremel and Flitz. Another 209, two 113's, 2 Beastmasters, and a dozen 5500's are to follow with bearing and drag upgrades and spool sleeves where needed. I'm starting to think that I do this stuff just to do it. Beats TV. pic attached

[alantani]

naw, you're fine!  they clean up nicely, don't they!

[publius]

Yep Alan, I remember fishing with these trolling for spainish Mackeral on my Grandfather's boat out of Biloxi when I was a little, little kid. I was born in '72 and there are pics of me in my play pen on the deck with these reels in the rod holders. I don't remember us ever doing anything except spraying them off with fresh water then hanging them back in the cabin .This is probably the first time it's ever been properly serviced We used them on the 33' Silverton until we bought a 25' Grady in 1988 and quit the Mackeral trolling. I hadn't seen them since them since then and found 2 of the probably 6 a couple of years ago. Grandad died in '94 so I'm going to take care of them. I'm thinking of spooling them with 25# and using them for bottom fishing red snapper. Rare to catch one over #40 so I don't think they will burn up and it's nice to have a level wind with the constant dropping and pulling in in 40-60ft. of water. Guess it's the OCD watchmaker in me to go this far w/ them.

By the way, I think I've posted this before, but their is a trick to making these old, neglected sideplates look good. I took an old toothbrush and softscrub cleanser and removed all the old chalkiness and dirt. I let them thoroughly dry for a week then put a heavy coat of Armor-All on for 3 days. I've done it on other old Penns and it shine's them up and they shed water like a duck.

[Bill B]

Beautiful stuff....polishing can sometimes be like "sortin' fly poop out of pepper", but these results are MUCH better! Keep those Penn's alive!