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Spinning Reel Rebuild Tutorials and Questions => General Spinning Reel Questions => Topic started by: foakes on July 24, 2021, 08:00:51 PM

Title: It’s a Little Stiff & the A/R Doesn’t Work
Post by: foakes on July 24, 2021, 08:00:51 PM
Trying to knock out 6 or 8 reels today — this old Mitchell 300 is number 4.

Client sez a little stiff turning — and the anti-reverse doesn't work anymore.

Well...I am not complaining — and am appreciative of the work — and some jobs are a lot messier and time consuming than others.  Some are pretty quick and routine — if it wasn't full of 3 kinds of 35 year old grease — I would not be working on it.

And, at least now — I know where the grease spill went when the Exxon Valdez' ran aground.

So this is no hill for a mountain climber.

I'll post a pic when it is done — got a DQ 110N in the ultrasonic cleaner right now — this goes in next.

Latex glove time with Q-Tips.

Best, Fred
Title: Re: It’s a Little Stiff & the A/R Doesn’t Work
Post by: philaroman on July 24, 2021, 08:49:26 PM
well, it kept the parts safe from corrosion  ::)
Title: Re: It’s a Little Stiff & the A/R Doesn’t Work
Post by: Midway Tommy on July 24, 2021, 08:50:39 PM
HA! Been there, done that, a time or two! It's sure not as much fun as playin' the mud when you were a kid.  :D Hopefully that gray crap isn't graphite grease.  ::)
Title: Re: It’s a Little Stiff & the A/R Doesn’t Work
Post by: foakes on July 24, 2021, 10:10:27 PM
Quote from: Midway Tommy on July 24, 2021, 08:50:39 PM
Hopefully that gray crap isn't graphite grease.  ::)

It is...was!  >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: It’s a Little Stiff & the A/R Doesn’t Work
Post by: jgp12000 on July 25, 2021, 12:58:26 AM
I haven't seen it as much as you guys but, I use a plastic spudger to get the majority of old grease removed.Then  I cut an acid brush down to 3/8"used along with alcohol and canned air.I guess being in electronics 40 years-tools of the trade...we use to have to wire brush B-52 black boxes for 2 days to remove the green corrosion (planes from Guam) then apply alodine, maybe this is why I talk slow or eyes twitch...Ba ha ha
Title: Re: It’s a Little Stiff & the A/R Doesn’t Work
Post by: happyhooker on July 25, 2021, 02:03:07 AM
A little stiff and no A/R: was that all?

Frank