Reel Repair by Alan Tani

Hey, all.

Slow bite, but beautiful day on the lake yesterday.
 After some crappie fishing and meat grilling, I decided to work on the Altex some more.

Tackling getting the handle, non rotating shaft, drive gear, and rest of internals installed and wrapped up.
I didn't rivet pin the handle, as I've got a factory correct handle coming.

Coming along nicely, but still tedious. I polished all screw heads and tried my best to tidy them and other brightwork up but this old girl has some scars that can't be fixed. That's OK by me, as we all have scars that tell our story.

I also included some pics of my micro push button oiler and the lubrication grease, I use.
The oil is just standard sewing machine oil I put into the oiler and for my parts that use grease, instead, I used faucet valve grease. It will not dry out, harden, gum up, and is waterproof. I use these 2 on all my resto's. Never had issue.

Well, getting closer and the mechanical bail works perfectly every time now. Going to get the external badges, oil port covers, and brass check carrier back on next and my undamaged handle should be here soon, to finish it up.
I'll post up a Facebook video of the finished reel in action, when it's complete.

Peace!!

Quote from: sabaman1 on May 11, 2024, 04:05:20 PMNice looking trout Benni. Nice scenery also.

Thanks man,,,,
I got 2 today and dewayne was trying to hook that big one again,,,,no luck,,,,,,

Guy on another site claimed the 100 had a roller clutch AR.  Can't confirm.  Have tried to get a schematic myself with no luck.  This reel was only on the market a few years.  Plastic gear was supposedly prone to crack.

Frank

I did search on google and ebay for them. Can't find small enough. C hook spanner wrench. Fabrication time i think. Need a source of thin metal though!!

Pretty funny.

I'm with Tommy; if I'm in the garage that drill is usually an ancient B&D 110V corded drill (that probably weighs 5#  )and I have a compressor and full set of pnuematics, but 9/10 times on the vehicles I am grabbing that Milwaukee cordless impact.  So handy and powerful, (and I would be first to admit given the price I am probably trying to subconsciously justify the purchase by using it more). - john

Nice looking trout Benni. Nice scenery also.

Quote from: alantani on May 11, 2024, 02:43:48 AManything you want to do is fine.  it also could just be very popular!!!   

With hot woman,,,,,

Off topic, but I got some new skechers slipin shoes, I love them- fat boy,buffet, no strings... "Vegan" was on the box    good Lord,people have gone absolutely crazy !!!

Quote from: Gfish on May 10, 2024, 08:49:06 PMYup. What to do though? I hate lawns to begin with. Yeah, they look nice and they're good to play on, but expensive to care for and time consuming and lawnmower/weedeater noise oriented. Gimme cement, bout 10' around my house and 10' wide driveway.

No matter what we as human kind do now, there are too many of us, more than this earth can sustain.
I prefer to keep soil and indigenous plants around my yard, looks nice and is as close to what that patch is supposed to look like..... I think.

Just think of drainage if you have cement, concrete, pavers and whatever where must all the water go when there are big rains?    All around the world there are floods.

Have any of you seen this:-
It's a bit long but an animation of a new pumping system currently being installed in the Netherlands, those pumps can fill an Olympic size pool in 50 seconds!  There are high quality webcams somewhere, I HAVE SEEN THEM BUT CAN'T FIND THEM NOW.

The Netherlands has a new problem, too much water is now moving from land towards the sea and they now need to increase the rate of drainage in to the ocean.    They have managed their old problem too well, keeping the ocean out of the land.

Sorry, this is deviating a bit from plastic carbs...LOL