Reel Repair by Alan Tani

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Title: Couple of Grocery Bags of Reels
Post by: foakes on January 09, 2026, 04:10:57 PM
One of my good buyers brought me a couple of grocery bags of reels yesterday.

2 decent Mitchell 300's, a clean Mitchell 400, a pristine Mitchell 408, a nearly new DAM Quick 265 Microlite, a locked up DAM Quick 330, a TINY Langley 850A Spinlite ultralight (smaller than a Daiwa 1000!), a Herters tiny ultralight, a Compac tiny spinner, a Daiwa 1000C that appears new, a Daiwa low profile baitcaster, an old South Bend baitcaster, and (2) brand new Shimano Spirex reels —- 1000 & 2000.  Couple of Fenwick rods, and a blue Garcia Conolon ultralight at 4'2".

Might be a couple more in the bags.

Paid $240 & a $30 pizza at Me n' Ed's.

More stuff to get rid of.

Best, Fred
Title: Re: Couple of Grocery Bags of Reels
Post by: MACflyer on January 09, 2026, 05:05:48 PM
Your downsizing efforts go about as well as mine, except your scale is much larger. Do appreciate you keeping those old reels in circulation, spinning smoothly, and catching fish.
Title: Re: Couple of Grocery Bags of Reels
Post by: Midway Tommy on January 09, 2026, 07:52:00 PM
I've got 8 of those various Langley 850 models, a Spinette Dlx 850, Spin-Lite Dlx 850, Spin-Lite Dlx Field Test 850, Spin-Lite Dlx 850B, Spin-Lite Dlx 852B, A&F 150-Three and 2 Zebco 850s. They're cute little reels. The A/R rubber flaps are usually old, brittle, falling apart and have to be replaced, though.