Reel Repair by Alan Tani

Hi all,

My name is Paul, and this is my first post here.

I'm just getting familiar with board layout and navigation, so please forgive me if I post anything in the wrong section.

I am a vintage reel enthusiast and restorer from the UK, so I am very excited to be here and share my photos and experiences with you all, and thank you Alan for allowing me to do so.

My interests are ever expanding, but so far, I have focussed more on early Mitchells, Abu Cardinals, ABU baitcasters, Swiss Marine/Thommen Record, French Mepps reels, German Platils, American Pflueger reels, and of course our own varied quality British reels, such as The top end Hardy Altex and Elarex, down to the very popular budget Intrepids (Old Pal by name in the USA initially, then later distrubuted under Horrocks Ibbottson), and the maybe not so popular slightly quirky and simple TJ Harrington reels.

It was a nostalgic trip down memory lane for me with the aquisition of a mint boxed Intrepid reel I used to own as a teen and then finding my dads old half bail Mitchell that got me started collecting them, I then did a restore on my dads reel, which came out rather well, so I got hooked on restoring too.

I will post up some photos soon.

great report Mo, those cats looks like great fighters

I'll definitely be taking Fred up on that offer. I wrote him about some DAM Quick parts also.

I got the clip from Mikes Reel Repair and it snapped into three pieces upon install.
i did apply some force with my finger to line up the clip with the shaft I didn't think I was overdoing it. This push was perpendicular to the pane of the layers and The predominant forces on the part would be in the pance of the layers...but I had to get it on first!

I have had similar experiences with printed parts my friend made for me to prototype some pro speaker parts. They could not stand any shear forces and delaminated almost immediately. And this was an (large and expensive)  FDM printer but I really can't attest to my friends skill and experience level with that machine! I think I was an early "customer!"

Given the otherwise outstanding quality of the Cardinal reels, It sure would be nice to have access to a stout metal replacement #8631.

way to get it done Lee. a cow BFT on 80# setup is a feat of its own. 

Penn VISX 16 set up for 80#.

Hey this is a fishing reel site, how come nobody mentions their equipment.

Bennie's on a hot streak!

Quote from: JasonGotaProblem on Today at 06:04:55 PMThe star off an old 5000c is small enough to not be affected by a majority of these ubiquitous offset handles.

You're right ,just check it out

The star off an old 5000c is small enough to not be affected by a majority of these ubiquitous offset handles.

I picked up some smaller stars for the curved handles but I can't remember where I got them! I do remember getting some round ones with Knurled edges from Blakdog but they don't work very well when your fingers are wet, or cold. I may have an extra small gold star drag..