My jigging reel

[floating doc]

Very nice; I've been dragging along with the same build for a while now. How did you set up your second dog spring? Any photos of that side plate after the modification?

[BMITCH]

Try chucking the screw in a drill and then grinding them running the drill counter to the grinder stone.
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Lee, that's a great idea next couple Im gonna try that! Thanks

Floating dock. Here's where the idea came from

http://alantani.com/index.php?topic=6405.0

[alantani]

stainless steel gear sleeve? 

[Ron Jones]

I agree Alan, I wouldn't think the brass Jigmaster sleeve would stand up to Bryan's drags for long.

Fantastic reel by the way. I'm not going the narrow route, have you seen the BFS on ebay?
Ron

[Dr. Jekyll - AKA MeL B]

my experience, SS sleeve should be OE on all expensive conventional SD reels. what's expensive, i guess that's subjective.

[BMITCH]

Oops of course a Alan T SS sleeve. I've changed soooo many of these hat you almost take it for granted. Sorry Alan. In the evolution of this reel that was the first upgrade!

[Alto Mare]

OK Bob, I got me some ss hex screws from McMaster Carr and decided to give it a shot

Not as shiny as yours, but I still like it.
Thanks for the tip guys.

[Ron Jones]

Every Penn reel of mine will soon look like that! That is cool.
Ron

[BMITCH]

Sal, did you turn them with a lathe or like Lee suggested, with them chucked up in a drill and turned in the opposite direction of the grinding wheel? I know you were looking into a lathe so I'm thinking that would give a nice uniform appearance. BTW that reel is a work of art!
Bob

[Alto Mare]

No Bob, no lathe yet, It's going to have to wait for now. I chucked them up on my hand held dremel and let them spin while working a grinding stone to it. Very easy to do, but you need  to be careful applying too much pressure, let the tool do the work.
Where did you get your screws? mine were roughly .7cents each.

[BMITCH]

I think on amazon? I've been on such a screw jones lately. It's probably for another thread but, what's your thoughts on the 114H screws. Again a difficult find. They are a 8-40. I was thinking maybe drill and tap to say a 10-32. Then there would be a heck of a lot more options.

[floating doc]

No Bob, no lathe yet, It's going to have to wait for now. I chucked them up on my hand held dremel and let them spin while working a grinding stone to it. Very easy to do, but you need  to be careful applying too much pressure, let the tool do the work.
Where did you get your screws? mine were roughly .7cents each.

So the dremel didn't damage the threads? Why a stone vs. a file?

[Keta]

The Dremel's collet holds the screw almost full contact, if it does damage the threads it's only rolling them and they can be straightened out with a die nut.

Stones tend to leave a smoother finish.

[erikpowell]

I'm surfing McMaster-Carr for the first time .... nice !
are those torx screws you're using flat head or button head ?
8-32, T-15 right?  what's the length?

actually, I'm looking at them for my 113h too.... they're probably different eh?
thanks
E

[Alto Mare]

No Damage on the threads, but as I mentioned above, I don't apply too much pressure.
I've tried the file, a stone does a better job. I actually use a sharpening stone that came with my vintage hand crank.
You might find other options, use whatever works for you.

Here you go Erik:
http://www.mcmaster.com/nav/enter.asp?partnum=92210A128
I did get the 5/8 also.

Sal