Reel Repair by Alan Tani

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This is so good to see on my favorite forum! My daughter (I've spoken about her a few times on this site) is taking her PHD at Florida and it is this program (Return em' Right) that is paying for her education and employees her. She is doing a lot of the statistics and research on this device. Very cool to see it come around with people I've associated with on the forum. She is one of my favorite humans to fish with and she uses a conventional reel, of course, because that's what she saw me fish with. 

There's a lot of reasons they're popular and, therefore, expensive.  It's a solid reel. It has a high gear ratio and high IPT, but you don't feel it in the start-up when cranking.

I particularly like the frame design.  It provides plenty of support, but you can still get your fingers in there to pick out a backlash. 

It has that set-up where the spool is riding on the spindle, instead of the spindle riding on the side plates.  Side plates can get knocked out of alignment if the reel is bumped/dropped.  But as long as the spindle is straight you get max performance. 

It palms OK, but like other ambassadeurs, it doesn't plam great..  The first thing I did was take the levelwind out of mine and made a low-profile tail plate so it would palm and cast better.

There is something weird about the anti-reverse that I don't like but I'd have to go back into the reel to remember what it is.

Really nice reel.  I'm going to put 12 lb mono on it.  With the leather( I think they're leather)  drags I'm sure it will be fine.  I'll try to post pictures in the future when we go fishing!

Almost have it back together!

Quote from: Swami805 on Today at 01:29:48 AMThere's 2 listings, I think your comment was on the other one Steve

DOH!

I got 1 today,,,,

A few more pictures taking the reel apart.    While taking it apart The tiny c clip on the handle almost got away from me.   When I pull them off I  try to take them off while inside the box, covering as much area with my hand.   This time luckily it went into the cloth and stuck. 

Quote from: 1badf350 on May 05, 2024, 06:41:54 PMRandy I'm kinda interested in that international 6

I'm sorry to say that I sold it Chris.