Reel Repair by Alan Tani

     I came across two videos worth while  watching , the first one is showing what happens in the spool when the line digs in to the spool .  Wait to see the bottom .
    The second one ,is how hollow core braid is spun together .

Quote from: Midway Tommy on Today at 03:32:33 PMInteresting reassembly & well done!

I have a magnetized tiny screwdriver that I use to place the balls in situations like that. For me, at least, it eliminates the risk of the balls shooting out of the tweezer pressure. 

I just put a little tab of grease at end of tweezers and the tiny balls go nowhere. Works great, sometimes they don't want to leave the tweezers so easily, but better than flying out and disappearing into the nether. Lol

Interesting reassembly & well done!

I have a magnetized tiny screwdriver that I use to place the balls in situations like that. For me, at least, it eliminates the risk of the balls shooting out of the tweezer pressure. 

I was on the Alaska Board of Fisheries when we established to policy requiring people to have decending devices on their boat. I remember a couple things from the studies we considered when making the policy. First, survival depends on the specific species. For example, yelloweye have about a 70% chance of survival if returned to the water very quickly -- less than 2 minutes I believe -- and to the depth they were caught at. Other species, even when handled correctly, have a much lower chance of survival; I believe greenspot rockfish had the lowest survival rate. Second, while there were several studies, none that we saw involved a large number of fish so there was a wide variation in results (the t-scores were horrible). Finally, a concern I had was that too many fishermen would use depending devices to target larger fish; i.e., releasing anything under say 10 or 20 pounds when targeting rougheye and shortrakers, etc. Other things equal, I guess depending devices are a good thing but the main thing they may do is keep our released fish from floating and make us feel better. Personally, I keep all rockfish I catch and simply move if I can't stop catching them while fishing for halibut.

After talking to my daughter a little bit, the 70% is ballpark, as it varies from fish to fish. However, she did say they return them to the depth they caught them in. I'm trying to get some sorta statistics in PDF form but I don't know when I'd get that info. She's in school and she's always burning the candle at both ends.

I can not remember the survival rate the ODFW came up with but it drops the deeper the fish is caught at.  I do not think it was as high as 70% though.

More progress on the Hardy Altex no.1 restore and a few things learned along the way...

Attached dust cover and installed flier assembly to reel body.

After attaching the dust cover and test fitting flier, I noticed when rotating the flier, it was making contact with something.. After careful examination, I noticed the dust cover screws were dome head and interfering with rotation of flier. I checked my other micro screws and they were all dome head or had a step shoulder, so none of those.
I checked parts installed on the completed flier for misplaced screws and, "bingo!", there were the flat top screws I was looking for! I had mistakenly used them on the bail arm drive gear cover. Same threads, different head shape.
The flat top screws sit flush with the dust cover, when snugged down, and cause for clean rotation. In my previous pictures of flier assembly, you can see misplaced flat top screws on external gear cover picture. Oops!

Next learn as you go lesson. Setting the mechanical bail arm trip gear, so it properly trips the bail during retrieval. If this gear is not "timed" correctly with the bail arm external drive gear, nothing works at all. Gears just snag up and reel is useless.
It took several tries removing trip gear and re positioning it to mesh it differently with the drive gear, in order to get the bail to close correctly and flier to continue to rotate.
I included pictures of trip gear at its different stages through mechanical bail trip.

Just for those who might be gun shy because of the notorious flier bearing assembly, fear not! It's really not that bad. Just micro. I used tiny tweezers to place bearings in ball cage washer. I also used minimal grease on the hard steel "sandwich" washers. This helped to keep the tiny bearings in place. Once the stack is assembled, the flier is inserted into body and infamous collet is snugged down.
Internals next!!

That's why I love doing this. The mental challenges defeated!

i've been using a seaqualizer for the last 5 years in fresh water here in new england to release lake trout and landlocked salmon that i catch here at 80- 100', works well off a downrigger also.

Those aren't the right type, Joe. They need to be the C style similar these:

I picked 4 of these up on eBay for around $1 each. They're mini, or micro size. I had to file them some to fit the circumference correctly. A lot of the C spanners are too big and have too large of a tip to fit in the nut slots.

I wish I could make gears!  They are acutally Penn gears out of the newer Fathom II 2 speed lever drag 40, 60 or 80 size reels.  I got them from Cal's but you should be able to get them from other sites.