Reel Repair by Alan Tani

What I feel should be done to spool a reel for less trouble ..   
   
  What is the intended use of the reel , Big game with some heavy drag ?
What line is used to spool 'Test pound "    For easy math lets say 100 pound .
    Would 70 pounds max drag be a safe working load , not that you will be in that territory all the time      What is the intended strike drag 20-30 pounds ?

    So now you have the reel chuck up on the machine .    Place the supply spool in the rite orientation to feed the reel spool.  Set the drag on the supply spool brake to 20- 30 pounds  "strike "

Tie a good knot .  Start laying the wrap side by side  close and tight , when you come to end , "sidewall '  Make a clean ramp to start the next layer and come across as you did the first layer . Keep repeating layer after layer  .    Do not make piles , hills or pot hole .    Fix them rite away
      It does take patience and technic  ,go slow .  This needs to be done  all the way up .    What do you see happening when watching other fill a reel

I will try this product, I trust Captain Nappo. However I think the Boeshield t9 is something similar to the XCorrision

Quote from: Shark Hunter on May 07, 2024, 07:08:03 PM

Quote from: Crab Pot on May 05, 2024, 05:12:00 PMAfraid to ask, but do you have a 16/0 Randy?

Steve

I have a Few Steve,
I'm heading out on a two week Vacation. We can Talk when I return,
Daron

No hurry Daron.

Thank you,

Steve

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So... I contacted the seller and he said he thought the body was graphite. In the photos it looks to scratched up to be the metal body. Spools on 4300SS reels though say 4300SS. Perhaps the 440SS was the first to have a graphite body in the series, and the ones I think I remember from the tackle shop in the mid 80's may have been graphite. Would make sense as the 440 was a freshwater sized reel but would be pretty heavy for a FW reel of that line capacity. Perhaps Penn headed this off by making the 440 graphite. Then, they went over to graphite for the whole series 4200, 4300, ... ? Just guessing.

This is an interesting topic. The Internationals are a good investment, even if you have to put out a couple of bucks for parts. They still command a premium price on the secondary market, so you probably won't lose. If you can still send them to Penn for servicing, chances are parts will be available for a while.

Thanks. I've just never seen one.

Steve

351 was an early version of the high speed 350 —- which was a 300 with rapid gearing.

Later, they just labeled it a 350.

Has nothing to do with a left or right hand reel orientation.

Best, Fred

Quote from: Cor on May 07, 2024, 10:49:43 AMMy maintenance routine on these type of garden appliances can not be compared to what I do to my reels.

I have a mower with an old cast alloy body and I tossed out the arm exerciser B & S motor around 1981 and replaced it with a 2 stroke Robin Japanese motor which is still going strong, well sort off.
It now needs a governor oil change, new air filter, and probably a clean and service of the carburetor.

Chainsaws I won't even mention, my next one will be an environmentally friendly model and will be fed by solar panels.

2 stroke engine have higher speed so it cut better,speed do the cut like the old lawnboy , Toro Recycler with 2 stroke 5HP Suzuki is the most powerful walk behind mower .Environment friendly do make some trimmer ,blower hard to start ,carburetor adjusted too lean at factory some of them cover up the adjustment screws that's why install after market carburetor make it run better .The GX 160 install on Commercial HRC 216 have 5.5 HP anywhere else, come to CA it have only 3.7 HP to meet state regulation

Thanks for the reply. I will definately check the pinion as you have described, and report back. The problem with the handle isn't with spinning backwards, but rather forwards on a cast, kind of like on old knuckle buster. If the pinion isn't functioning properly, what could be causing that? Sounds like it could be a problem with the jack, perhaps? The more I think about it, I remember I did replace the springs as well, and possibly the pinion. I will have to look through my parts box and see if I have a used pinion gear floating around in there. I pretty much refuse to give up on it. At the end of the day it really is a nice reel, and does have a smoothness that my other Internationals can't quite compare to.

Thanks for the input. I'll be testing it out again soon on some AJs.