Reel Repair by Alan Tani

Where would be the best place to find a spring scale for testing drags? Also what poundage would be best? I will be working on reels as big a 6/0.

Thanks Michael

I'm still using a Shimano drag scale that's about 4 years old. They may still be available. They are a must have for setting drags on trolling reels and lever drag reels.

I have a few of these left.

http://alantani.com/index.php?topic=4011.0

Quote from: Keta on September 16, 2014, 09:51:10 PM
I have a few of these left.

http://alantani.com/index.php?topic=4011.0

Thanks Keta but I wanted to go with at least the 50 pound one.

The place I got these from make a 50lb but they are not cheep.

I use a 50lb spring scale from Mustad, but Rapala and many others have them as well. The best place for me to find them is at most places that sell fishing tackle. The scales have mostly the same design, I'm sure there are a few manufactures of these types of scales and a fishing equipment company just buys them strait from the manufacture of the scale and the scale manufacture just adds the name/logo of the fishing company their selling them too.

Quote from: SoCalAngler on September 17, 2014, 03:36:51 AM
I'm sure there are a few manufactures of these types of scales and a fishing equipment company just buys them strait from the manufacture of the scale and the scale manufacture just adds the name/logo of the fishing company their selling them too.

The place I got them from builds them in house, I even get shanghaied to help.

SoCal,
I am sure you are correct.  Over 50 years ago I worked for the Armstrong Tire Co.  We, of course, made the Armstrong tires.  But with the same "green tire" we also made all of Sears tires.  A green tire at a glance looks like a black beer keg.  Then they go into a mold that compresses them and bakes them.  The mold had the tire info and name of the tire co is etched into the mold.  We even had some molds with no manufacturers names so you had a tire with all the pertinent information about the tire without a brand name.  If you wanted to pay for a brand--similiar to a cattle brand, we would brand the tire for you.  So  you could have 3 tires that were exactly the same materials and one would say "Armstrong Tires", the other would say "Sears" tires and the 3rd would say "SoCalAngler" tires.  I am sure that same type of thing goes on today.
TomT