Reel Repair by Alan Tani

I'm a bit torn. I have a little Honda stationary engine (GX270) and I have spent far more on genuine Honda parts to recondition the carb than a complete chinese clone carb would have cost me.
But then I would be supporting a business that does nil product development, and has just copied the Honda item, to unknown tolerance, specification, metallurgy etc. Would the chinese clone product probably do the job perfectly well? I would say there's a very, very good chance it would. But until the price difference becomes eye-watering, I will endeavour to use genuine parts.

EDIT: This does not apply when one can find out the originator of the genuine part, and buy it direct at a major discount with different branding. That's just being smart.

The Shimano part for the wrench that comes in the box is 10MJ7, they're less than $4: https://fishshop.shimano.com/products/10mj7

Otherwise a 12-point metric socket fits, I can't remember what size though sorry, might be a 16mm.

I need a handle nut wrench to fit a Talica 16. It's larger than anything I have. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Randy McConnell
Reeltyme

In addition, if you don't know how to service something, there's probably a YouTube video that will walk you through it.

Swapped out the carb, installed the new gas lines, installed the new primer bulb, installed a new spark plug, and also a fuel pick-up filter.

Runs strong and perfect.

Took about 30 or 40 pulls before it started.

I think I didn't know how many times to prime the bulb, and might have flooded the carb.

Then I fine-tuned the screw adjustments.

But now it starts on the first pull.

Also verified and lubed the trigger, stop switch, and wiring back to the plug from the stop switch to make sure that wasn't the issue.

I think it sat out in the snow for about 3 years.

Not a hard job —- and a good result.

I still need to order a couple of air cleaners.  This did all of our cement, deck, driveways, leaves, steps, etc. —- in about 15 minutes.

Best, Fred

     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 May 09, 2024, 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.