Penn Reels - just as you find them

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Shellbelly

Quote from: Swami805 on March 16, 2023, 09:26:29 PMlike John said for different models or they put the hole in the wrong spot and added a second so as not to waste a good gear sleeve

Somebody will show up and explain it someday.  It could have been a misdirection from engineering that resulted in a run of hundreds of these before it was caught and corrected.  The holes in the example above appear to be at the same elevation on the sleeve.  I didn't try both sets to see if they both work.   
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steelfish

penn 113h with tiburon YTS frame and spool without innards and right sideplate, this could be a nice project,  it was given to me along with the incomplete ProGear this one will be pretty hard to find the right sideplate.
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Shellbelly

Quote from: broadway on March 17, 2023, 12:03:17 AMThat part of the gear (where the ears go) is super duper thin on most of the 30's reels.
Yes it is very thin!  This one is steel and one side was open for most of the length of the slot.  The other side had a small hole in the slot.  I see it often.  I think play in the machining process may have created some of the holes we find in the smaller main gears. 

Thank you, it's always fun.
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Shellbelly

Quote from: steelfish on March 17, 2023, 12:57:54 AMthis one will be pretty hard to find the right sideplate.
I'll bet somebody will come up with something.  Pretty crafty bunch in here.
"Little boy,  you can get glad in the same pants you just got mad in."  (My Momma)
"You shot it boy, you're gonna clean it and eat it".  (My Dad)

oldmanjoe

Quote from: Shellbelly on March 17, 2023, 12:39:49 AM
Quote from: Swami805 on March 16, 2023, 09:26:29 PMlike John said for different models or they put the hole in the wrong spot and added a second so as not to waste a good gear sleeve

Somebody will show up and explain it someday.  It could have been a misdirection from engineering that resulted in a run of hundreds of these before it was caught and corrected.  The holes in the example above appear to be at the same elevation on the sleeve.  I didn't try both sets to see if they both work.   
Let me kick the can :
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1badf350

I've been on fire lately with flea market finds. Here's what I think is a 1942 9/0 with wooden torpedo knob. Lighthouse box is rough but the reel is mint as could be.

-Chris

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Swami805

Another beauty of a find Chris, on fire is an understatement, seems like every weekend brings another gem
Do what you can with that you have where you are

1badf350

Quote from: Swami805 on March 18, 2023, 07:52:29 PMAnother beauty of a find Chris, on fire is an understatement, seems like every weekend brings another gem
Thanks!!!
-Chris

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Shellbelly

That's pristine.  One heck of a flea market.  Is there an RV park across the street from it?  A month in that place and I'd be done for a while!
"Little boy,  you can get glad in the same pants you just got mad in."  (My Momma)
"You shot it boy, you're gonna clean it and eat it".  (My Dad)

Crow

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1badf350

#3085
Looking at the price on the Lighthouse box raises a question. Most of the price is scratched off, but you can see it ends in .50.
So the box is either 1938 $27.50, which we know the reel can't be, or 1946-49 $32.50 which it shouldn't be based on knurled counterweight and hole in the spool.
Maybe this box didn't originally contain this reel?
Oh well, a little extra scratch will take care of that LOL
-Chris

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them."
John Wayne as J.B. Books in "The Shootist"

54bullseye

Dam nice find Chris.  Congrats !    John

Finest Kind

I wanted to show a reel that I think may be beyond the restoration abilities of even the folks on this site! I pulled it up in my clam rake from the bottom of Long Island Sound Ca. 1978. The handle rotates, but it's no longer connected to the gears. The handle is hard rubber. I have always been impressed by how good it looked after the better part of 100 years underwater. It makes a nice desk ornament.

1badf350

I bet that reel is made of german silver and might surprisingly polish up. JVH and Conroy stamp is cool and scarce (I think)
-Chris

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them."
John Wayne as J.B. Books in "The Shootist"

Cuttyhunker

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