For your approval. My personal solution to the ole problem of adding or removing line from our reels. This is quite honestly a combination of many of the concepts shared by other members of this forum as well as BD.com and All Coast combined with a few of my own. Understandably thanks are in order to the members who have shared ideas and photos of their own, if something looks like your idea it may well be.
Cool stuff Moose, thanks for sharing, I also like the measuring wheel, nice touch.
I use the same one.
Nice machine.
Did you use any carbon fiber or spring washers for adjusting spool tension?
How does your line stripper work exactly?
Thanks for sharing!
Using old newell fiber washers greased with calls between a couple of washers, just tighten the nuts then lock once its set. As for stripping I assume you mean for stripping line, I use an attachment I picked up at the Fred Hall. Basically you screw it on top of a water bottle then it goes in the chuck.
Great Idea and workmanship. Next maybe show us a line tension-er to put braid on to keep it tight.........Thats important if you use spectra type lines........good work. gst.
http://alantani.com/index.php?topic=7408.msg62974#msg62974 look familiar
http://alantani.com/index.php?topic=7408.msg62974#msg62974 look familiar
Yes Harry! Very. He didn't take all the credit.
Looks very similar to yours.
Admittedly part of my inspiration is from Harry's machine. The drag setup I'm using is based on what Inhotpursuit posted up. But the threaded bar is "keyed" into the board on the left so it doesn't try to spin under drag. Some of my design ideas are also based on the Sato machines.
The L bars I'm using are based on an idea I saw on BloodyDecks. They are $3. Plumbing wrenches from Harbor Freight with the ends trimmed down and then dipped in plasticoat. The drill I'm using is also from Harbor, and cost $35. on sale with a coupon. The digital line counter is also from Harbor and was a $12. counting wheel I cut down with my Dremel. Save for the drag washers which came from my Newell 533's the rest of the parts originated from Home Depot. All told the total cost was approximately $160. With is a song compared to the Sato machines.
Now all I need to pick up is one of Triangles spinning reel spool attachments. Unless someone here has an idea that is just as robust yet more cost conscious????? ;D ;) ;D
Very nice! It's a step up from what I made, that for sure.
Nice, where did you get the line counter?
The line counter is a measuring wheel from Harbor Freight Tools.
My only issues with it is that it measures in feet and inches or meters, no yards. But meters are close enough for me, and it does measure to 1000, and remembers what the previous measurements were when it automatically shuts off from inactivity.
Thanks, they sell a 10,000' one for $14.99.
http://www.harborfreight.com/10000-ft-meter-digital-measuring-wheel-96136.html (http://www.harborfreight.com/10000-ft-meter-digital-measuring-wheel-96136.html)
Yea, that's the one Lee. If you get one of their 20% off coupons in the Sunday paper it drops to $12.
I got mine at Home Depot. It is orange colored and analog (in ft). One thing to pay attention to, is to make sure it has some tension maintaining contact with the spool or it can lose some accuracy (up to ~5%). Mine works fine with a bungie holding it tight to the spool. It'd be nice if it read in yds, but I can't complain for the cost.
I've been thinking of using a coil spring and a castlenated nut to spring load it.
Quote from: Tightlines666 on July 07, 2014, 07:14:30 AM
I got mine at Home Depot. It is orange colored and analog (in ft). One thing to pay attention to, is to make sure it has some tension maintaining contact with the spool or it can lose some accuracy (up to ~5%). Mine works fine with a bungie holding it tight to the spool. It'd be nice if it read in yds, but I can't complain for the cost.
Divide by 3. :D ;D :D ;D Dominick
Hi mentonemoose --
Great job -- very clever!
Looks like you have it all covered -- but if you need a digital line counter in yards, I have a couple of extras -- and would send you one at no charge.
I have 4 line winders for different reel applications from small spinning to large offshore -- and these are extras that are still working. I had thought that the battery would go dead -- but they are still working fine after 10+ years. It came from one of the larger Triangle machines labeled by Berkley.
These mount on a 1" X 1/4" vertical flat bar, and are gravity fed on top of the supply line spool. You might be able to use it, or it may not be part of your plan. No worries either way!
If interested, just let me know your mailing address with a PM.
Best regards,
Fred
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That's very nice and much cheaper than my Triangle HD-140
Hats off to your hard work.
Thank you much for the offer Foakes, but this counter suites my needs just fine. I just run it on the "feet" setting and as Dom said decide by three. On this settin it's very accurate due to measuring feet and inches.
Oh wow, stupid spell check. DIVIDE!!
thanks for sharing your work with us, if I could ask a question, what is the red reel for??? tensioning the line I assume????? and do you give it a few wraps of line or how do you feed it thru to the reel being spooled???? I like your ideas, and work.......good job!!!!
I showed the reel placed there to demonstrate that with the longer bar you could do that. However the reel in question is a penn 501s which I use a a small live bait reel for small tuna and yellowtail. I have since purchased a penn 114H exclusively for that purpose. And will be using it as part of my annual maintenance ritual to strip off my spectra backing, wash the spectra, re wax my spools, clean and regrease or oil all internal applicable parts. Then repack the spectra back on under the appropriate tension. The 501 is no where near large enough for that task with my larger AVET 30 and Hx, but the Penn 114 is perfectly suited for that task as far as drag and line capacity.