salvaging a broken handle

[surfcaster]

Hi,(Disclaimer By no Means am I a proffessional I am a fisherman & repair reels as a hobby.)I recently got a 750ss that looks brand new but it is missing the handle, for the time being I came up with this....

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I had an old 7500 handle with a broke pivot & knob

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Had to drill/tap the pivot replace the pivot

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Then I put a threaded brass rivot with a hex head machine screw, 

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Next I got out the torch.......
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Sacrificed a Perfect 349h green swirley bakelite handle. @#!!
Back to the drawing board, []
Went through the box of Misfit parts, found a busted up 113h newer handle made out of plastic.(it took well to the torch) drilled & cut the sleeve off the 113h handle & epoxied it on
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[]  The End result, A handle that will do for the time being.  Tight lines, & Semper Fi Rich

[Cone]

Rich, It looks like that handle will be better than a stock one. Bob

[Alto Mare]

You did some nice work Rich, actually too nice for me to tell you how much that green handle was worth
Thanks for sharing.
Sal

[surfcaster]

Chaulk it up to lessons learned ,Perhaps to save someone else from ruining parts. the black handle in the pic works , but I removed way too much material to fit the newer knob.
It will soon look like the 650 blank Only a matter of time....
Next time, I will use much smaller bits ,& work my way up . It would have been cool if the green knob fit. Got a box of junk parts in the shed from other franken reel projects,
mostly before I found this site.Also have Alot of experiments that worked out good too. The older bakelite knobs do not like heat.


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