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Conventional and Bait Casting Reel Rebuild Tutorials and Questions => Avet Tutorials and Questions => Topic started by: mmayo on September 06, 2019, 07:23:53 PM

Title: New Avet tool for EX30 and EX50 - save your fingers!
Post by: mmayo on September 06, 2019, 07:23:53 PM
After years of bent fingernails and frustration I thought of a better way. Make a tool!  The problem comes up when depressing the spring to insert a pin, the second pin. The spring must be pushed down and then the pin keeps the spring tension. If I had three arms it might work. The photos show a smooth handle and a brass tube with matching cutouts for the pin. Align the cutouts with the holes in the shaft, push and insert the pin. It works to remove or install the pin.

The wood is red zebrawood. 


(https://i.imgur.com/qqNWfSo.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/SxHdOyD.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/qQ7l73G.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/oNGsATM.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/kSRl0ns.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/lOOVi0W.jpg)

I hope this helps those of you servicing big Avet reels.
Title: Re: New Avet tool for EX30 and EX50 - save your fingers!
Post by: xjchad on September 06, 2019, 07:29:19 PM
Great idea Mark!  And beautiful execution!
A lot of us here could make our own, but none would be as pretty as yours!
Title: Re: New Avet tool for EX30 and EX50 - save your fingers!
Post by: Crow on September 06, 2019, 07:49:33 PM
Good job !
Title: Re: New Avet tool for EX30 and EX50 - save your fingers!
Post by: Donnyboat on September 06, 2019, 08:06:04 PM
Nice Mark, thanks for sharing, cheers Don.
Title: Re: New Avet tool for EX30 and EX50 - save your fingers!
Post by: mmayo on September 06, 2019, 08:08:04 PM
Quote from: xjchad on September 06, 2019, 07:29:19 PM
Great idea Mark!  And beautiful execution!
A lot of us here could make our own, but none would be as pretty as yours!

Thanks for your kindness
Title: Re: New Avet tool for EX30 and EX50 - save your fingers!
Post by: Bryan Young on September 06, 2019, 11:05:13 PM
Great tool to save our fingers.  How many times have my fingers slipped and sometimes the spring goes zing in the air.