This Heddon 238 arrived this morning, was less than 14 bucks shipped. It was functional, could have been fished in the condition upon arrival.
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Only real flaw to speak of was a bent handle, but I had another Heddon to donate one the same length, but it's built differently.
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The side plate was scuffed, not really concerned about it.
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Inside was fairly clean, but needed serviced anyway.
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One unthreaded pin secures the crosswind block to the axle.
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These reels were built without a ball bearing or rotor nut, a big e-clip attaches rotor to the housing. The pinion gear is built in as part of the rotor.
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This is another one of these B-grade simply built reels with a minimum of parts. The only plastic is the handle knob, drag knob and spool. The ad at the bottom of this post says the reel has a metal spool, but this one doesn't. No chenille pipe-cleaner type dust cover was present in it either.
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As I mentioned above, it was pretty clean, this is the biggest gob of grease inside.
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The anti-reverse assembly needed a good cleaning, so I took it apart.
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The bail trip assembly was a little dirty, so I removed it also.
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The dirty parts cleaned up fairly well.
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I used Ardent Reel Butter Grease and Reel Butter Oil for lube.
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These reels weigh 9.6 oz without line on my scales, capacity is 200 yds of 6 lb. mono. I failed to get a picture, but it only has one metal keyed drag washer. I had an old cheap Daiwa back in the early 1970s with a similar drag setup. Also either one of my D-A-M Quick 270 or Finessas have a similar setup. Surprisingly, the drag does function. A skilled angler could disengage the anti-reverse and back-reel fight a big fish to be on the safe side, I suppose.
Midway Tommy provided me an online link a while back of old Heddon catalogs. Looking back, this reel could have possibly debuted in 1972. At least it wasn't in the 1971 catalog. LOL, I was 19 years old then. http://www.antiquefishinglures.com/1972heddon.htm
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Nice work Festus. thanks for the look at the guts of that reel. dominick
You're welcome, Dominick.
I have no idea what that coppery colored metal could be. Maybe a plating? I could have shined it with Brasso, I suppose, but didn't want to remove more metal than I had to.
Quote from: festus on April 22, 2019, 11:36:00 PM
I have no idea what that coppery colored metal could be. Maybe a plating? I could have shined it with Brasso, I suppose, but didn't want to remove more metal than I had to.
I think it is a plating, my 248 has a plating on the main also.
Nice look at this reel. There seems to be a scarcity of handy info on some of the Heddon spinning reels, so this post was definitely welcome.
Frank