Decided to organize my DAM Quick bail springs for quick and easy access.
Likely have well over 10,000 DQ bail springs —- both the coil types, as well as the more modern offset types.
Found brand new 60 -70 year old bags full of bail springs. Some had 1,000 springs and were unopened.
Online, these sell for $4.95 to $12.95 each, plus $4.95 shipping, and tax.
At $5 each, that is $50K, without shipping or tax.
But for me, it is just good to have new bail springs for my client reels, and new builds.
Even have thousands of the harder ones to find —- for the Microlite, 110, 1000, 1001, 110N, 220, 270, and all others.
Many of these DQ bail springs are a direct fit for some of the Penn spinners, believe it or not.
Best, Fred
Little tiny part, but when you need one, nothing else will do. And, unfortunately, they do break once in awhile at the most inconvenient times.
Frank
Dam Quick bail spring seem seldom fail . I use them quite often but only changed once on 221
Quote from: quang tran on April 17, 2026, 03:46:41 PMDam Quick bail spring seem seldom fail . I use them quite often but only changed once on 221
Quang is correct, most bail springs never fail.
But what happens is they can get weaker over the decades, especially when stored with pressure on the bail springs/bail assembly. That is why some of the quality spinning reel producers of the day engineered a feature to allow the bail to fold down when not fishing. This takes all of the pressure off of the bail spring when in storage.
A client will send in a reel, stating that it needs a bail spring because the bail is not flipping over properly. However 9 times out of 10 it is a slightly tweaked bail wire, a bent bail mount, or crud in the mechanism's.
A new bail spring is always good to do when the reel is on the bench, since I'll likely never get a chance to service the reel again. That way, all is fresh, and as good as possible for more decades of angling. Has to be as perfect as I can make it before it leaves the bench. No excuses.
I have a special tool that corrects 90% of bail issues when doing the final checking before bagging up the reel. It just takes 30 seconds to apply and micro-tune the bail operation.
Best, Fred