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Title: Hello from Cleveland, Oh New member
Post by: Christopher M Songer on September 09, 2018, 11:07:47 AM

Found this site after watching a few of Alan's You Tube posts. I fish Erie with yearly trips to Lake Ontario for King salmon. We had Frank at The Rod Maker shop doing reel maintenance and repair along with tackle sales but he died suddenly 3 yrs ago leaving us with no local place to take our problems. Last Jan I tore apart my reels to prepare for going back to Lake Ontario as the walleye do not test a reel like the Kings do and it had been 15 yrs since my last trip for silver in my own boat. My reels are Penn 320 GTI x2, 209 x2, Diawa Great Lakes 47 line counter x3, Diawa SG27lc x5 and 2 Okuma MagdaPro 30dx. I had fun looking up on line tutorials and upgraded to carbon drag washers whenever I could. Andy at Tuna's Reel troubles has been my source for parts and cf washers.
My friends heard I was doing it and started to ask me to clean, lube and upgrade the washers stacks. So here I am taking in a few reels a week from my friends and word of mouth. I have lots of questions and feel I am just scratching the surface. So far I have only rebuilt about 60 reels mostly level wind line counters and about 20 spinning reels. Looking forward to taking this to the next level. I am a retired RN and hope to make this a paying hobby.

Thanks for allowing me to join and tight lines,

Chris

Title: Re: Hello from Cleveland, Oh New member
Post by: Benni3 on September 09, 2018, 01:02:53 PM

Welcome from salem va ;D

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Post by: Donnyboat on September 09, 2018, 01:22:39 PM

Hi Chris, you have been bizzy with them reels, dont take on to much, or you wont have any time for fishing, this is a good groupe of people here, you wont be sorry, cheers Don from sunny Western Australia.

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Post by: Tiddlerbasher on September 09, 2018, 03:46:17 PM

Hi Chris & welcome from the UK, another Chris.

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Post by: foakes on September 09, 2018, 04:05:16 PM

Welcome aboard, Chris!

Best,

Fred

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Post by: Bryan Young on September 09, 2018, 04:43:39 PM

Welcome aboard Chris.

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Post by: Alto Mare on September 09, 2018, 05:04:57 PM

Welcome from Pa, Chris!

Sal

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Post by: sdlehr on September 09, 2018, 05:13:47 PM

Welcome from Southeast Florida, Chris!

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Post by: swill88 on September 09, 2018, 06:22:38 PM

Welcome!

Steve

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Post by: mo65 on September 09, 2018, 06:43:47 PM

Welcome!

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Post by: Shark Hunter on September 09, 2018, 09:27:03 PM

Welcome Chris!

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Post by: Reel 224 on September 09, 2018, 10:20:01 PM

Welcome to a great site...........................Joe from central NJ......................soon to be S Carolina. ;D

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Post by: gstours on September 10, 2018, 04:29:04 AM

Welcome buddy, you came to a great place for information sharing. Enjoy 😉 and send us some pictures.
From Se Alaska.☔️🎣

Title: Re: Hello from Cleveland, Oh New member
Post by: Keta on September 10, 2018, 04:59:08 AM

Hi.

Title: Re: Hello from Cleveland, Oh New member
Post by: Christopher M Songer on September 10, 2018, 07:40:21 AM

Thank you for the warm welcome, questions to start soon! lol

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Post by: Dominick on September 10, 2018, 01:54:04 PM

Good luck Chris and welcome. Dominick, San Mateo, CA

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Post by: Gobi King on September 10, 2018, 02:06:55 PM

Chris, Welcome from West MI,

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Post by: alantani on September 10, 2018, 03:49:52 PM

welcome!

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Post by: Ron Jones on September 10, 2018, 05:13:27 PM

Good to meet you! God Speed on your small business venture. If there is a resource you want for what you're doing it is right here.

Ron from Washington

Title: Re: Hello from Cleveland, Oh New member
Post by: sdlehr on September 16, 2018, 03:05:04 PM

Quote from: Reel 224 on September 09, 2018, 10:20:01 PM
Welcome to a great site...........................Joe from central NJ......................soon to be S Carolina. ;D

You're gonna need a bigger boat....

Title: Re: Hello from Cleveland, Oh New member
Post by: Crow on September 16, 2018, 09:39:17 PM

Welcome !!

Title: Re: Hello from Cleveland, Oh New member
Post by: Bill B on October 09, 2018, 05:23:32 AM

Good to have you here.....Bill

Reel Repair by Alan Tani

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