Reel Repair by Alan Tani

Quote from: jgp12000 on June 15, 2026, 04:28:22 PMI looked at a few schematics & haven't found any p/n for the bail trip bumpers
yet. So I found any interesting plastic repair video in the rabbit hole.I have seen them before ,but its pretty "Macgyverish"

 My favourite feature of the external trip is that they are less prone to snapping the bail shut on the cast, and since I prefer to close mine by hand anyways, if I ever lost a bumper I would likely just cut off the nub and get rid of the bail trip entirely.

I looked at a few schematics & haven't found any p/n for the bail trip bumpers
yet. So I found any interesting plastic repair video in the rabbit hole.I have seen them before ,but its pretty "Macgyverish"

I saw an 850 on ebay never heard of that size

I still say if the whisker SS had a metal body, brass gears, and came with carbon drags, it would be the arguably best spinning reel of all time.

It would out-cast and out-last anything else on the market, while also being "more fun" than any other spinner (but that last one's purely opinion)

Quote from: JasonGotaProblem on June 14, 2026, 02:33:27 PMI've never noticed rotor wobble on my SS700. I fished it a few weeks ago. I don't think it has a balanced rotor, it pre-dates that. But that's something you feel playing with it at bass pro, not something you'd notice fighting a fish.

 This, I've got quite a few reels that have a bit of wobble if you just stand there and give them a fast crank, and generally the bigger the reel the more noticeable it is. On the water I've never noticed it though... anytime I need to crank fast enough for it to be an issue I've got more important things to worry about.

 I've got Daiwas from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Cant say I've noticed any definite trend in quality between any of them. My Korean 1300c is smoother than my Japanese one, and my Taiwanese BG is of better quality than my Japanese D1600 and 2600, while my favorites are a couple 1600c's which are Japanese.

I
Don't think anyone else was doing it back then. The label inside the side plate will tell the tale

Can you tell if it was done by sheets?

"AI is the debil" Bobby Boucher 1998

Maybe AI will use that to self destruct itself

The Water Boy was smarter than AI

Welcome from Salem va,,,

Good Lord!    How in the world could George Orwell have any idea eighty years ago that his premonition might eventually come true? Starting to look like that's what AI may accomplish when all is said and done.