Which Penn reel introduced in the 1930's stayed at the same introductory price thru the late 50's ??
No fair cheating for all of you with Mike C. history books :D :D
I can't use the book? ??? Uggghhhh.....
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Just a flyer,99 silver beach?
Sorry Sheridan, keep trying
Mo Farley....go ahead and use the book, it might be tougher than you think to solve. ;) ;)
Keeping us on our toes, eh, Ted? I'm gonna go with the 140 squidder, but it seems too obvious so I'm probably incorrect.
Dom
Quote from: broadway on April 29, 2018, 05:46:57 AM
Keeping us on our toes, eh, Ted? I'm gonna go with the 140 squidder, but it seems too obvious so I'm probably incorrect.
Dom
Ok, you got that one....$25.00 was the price in 1939 and in 1957
....Now I'll add another to this subject.... Penn at one point boasted about the squidder and its casting capabilities.....What was the RPM's the squidder reached during a cast according to Penn ??
I thought squidder at first too, makes sense too since they were pricey for a penn. They raised the price to 27.50 in the late forty's though. Maybe because they added the extra spool?
1957 catalog shows squidder for $25.... Not sure what happened in the late 40's. Might have been for metal spool option
Ok....I cheated and went to the "book" ;) but could not find anything.....so my SWAG (Scientific Wild #### Guess) is 650 rpm.....🤓 And I apologize if I guessed right....Bill
Here's an old one in a box
$27.50 was real money back in the 30' s.
I have a later one in a box with the spare spool that was $25.00. Both came with plastic spools. Heck of a lot of money back then. So they came out with similar models without some features at a lower cost but did those models also have the "fins" on the spool too or was that just a squidder thing?
Love the early box Sheridan. Not an easy find
Uncle Bill, 650 rpm's is like a car sitting at idle....think more like a NASCAR running at 200mph ;D ;D
what's nascar 8500? what F1 12000? got me on that one Ted
The red line is 8,000 in Nascar so I guess 8,000 :-\
Joe
Very close guess Joe......
...according to Penn, the squidder reaches up to 10,000 rpm's per cast, and up to 750 revolutions
Ted: That would explode a NasCar engine for sure. Thanks for that info, I will be very careful when I go to thumb my Sqidder net time.
Joe
10,000! No Way. :o
That just put my Squidder's a little higher on the totem pole. ;)