Just bought a used Penn 15kg. Alan do you have any suggestions/tricks to upgrade it? What, if any parts can I use or exchange with this reel?
the 15 is a great reel. i'd rearrange the bellevilles, grease the drags, pack the non-spool bearings with grease, clean, lube and re-install open the spool bearings, and consider an optional 6/0 kolekar handle grip. the single speed gld post is very close. http://alantani.com/index.php?topic=268.0 the two speed shifter mechanism is not covered but is fairly straight forward. please take pictures and let us know how you do! alan
Thanks for the advise Alan. I could not find my camera to take pics but your pics of the GLD pretty much covers it. The bellvilles were ()() when I took it apart, so I put it back together the same way. I cleaned out the spool bearings and lubed with ReelX and reinstalled them open. Cleaned out and re-packed the right side bearing, greased the drag washer. The only pain was screwing the 2 speed shifter housing back on without the release button and springs falling out, but I eventually got it together. Thanks again
yeah, the single speed tutorial obviously does not have a 2-speed shifter. need to go through that........