Reel Repair by Alan Tani

 Spool slipping ?? Are you sure it's not the line slipping on the spool arbor?

Anodizing didn't go so well.  I degreased the parts, and then dipped in sodium hydroxide to clean and etch.  We'll I guess 7075 doesn't like to be etched because it basically ate the bearing adapter and cover in just a few minutes!
I remade both parts and tried powder coating.  I used an Eastwood kit that I bought used.  You can see the final product below.

I was a bit heavy handed with the powder.  You can see the orange peel.  Live and learn.



The fully assembled reel looks somewhat factory.  I'd like to say that it turned out perfect but that would be a stretch.  It functions prefectly but I'd make a few minor changes if I were to ever do this again.  Overall this was a fun project.   I have a trip at the end of May.  If I hook anything big with this reel I'll provide an update.  Thanks for looking and commenting.



P.S.
While I had the reel open I decided to add 1.6:1 gears. 
I added pictures of the gears just in case someone wanted to see what they looked like.
Top gears are original, bottom are the 1.6:1 set.

Quote from: oldmanjoe on Today at 02:53:35 AM  Ah come on , don`t you remember David and Goliath .  He rocked it !

   Ah come on , don`t you remember David and Goliath .  He rocked it !

Yep,
He's trying to prove to himself that he and his wife can still become grandparents in 18 years (trying to maintain the 12 year old rule, even though she's heard quite a bit more than anything that would ever be on here.)

He looks to be very good at it, but he is just getting people to watch him.

The Man

Quote from: Gfish on May 07, 2024, 09:08:20 PMThe line spools up evenly 'cause tight coils under good winding pressure force the new coil under linear pressure down, but off to the side. Stupid sounding explaination, but that's all I got.
If that was you, you godda make more grunting-groaning noise to help yourself along there😀.

The level spooling is the effect of fleet angle  . Think of boom cranes and how they wind cable up and down and keep the cable from jumping over it self.  As far as weight 2  ounce on this line works .

Man I have been fighting a upper respiratory cold for 3 weeks .  I was conducting a test to see how fast drag changes from half to empty 8 to 12 pounds .

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.