Reel Repair by Alan Tani

Howzit good people,
I own(ed) a old Shimano Stella STL-6000FA.

Last weekend's outing the reel gave it away. Send it to a friend of mine who service my reels and after opening it he found out that I didn't pay too much attention to the care of my precious reel.

He listed the following parts that I'he been struggling to find.
6205 - Oscillating Slider Bushing
6206 - Oscillating Pawl
2409 - Worm Shaft Spacer
8035 - Ball Bearing
8262 - Worm Shaft Ring
8192 - Drag Knob

Shimano South Africa mentioned it's a discontinued model and there are no spares available. BUY a new model they said. But I'm avid to have my old reel fixed and remove de (ed) from own(ed) on the first sentence of this post.

I will be trevelling to the US (west Coast trip) at the end of the month and it would be great if I could find the parts and have it shipped to my hotel.
Either I get all the parts or I will have a box of parts.

Please help me!!!

Your friend will be struggling with those parts because Shimano threw out their old part numbering system a couple of years back, and cross-referencing is not easy. But also that is quite an old reel now. Let me see what I can find.

EDIT:
6205 - Oscillating Slider Bushing
6206 - Oscillating Pawl
These two, there isn't even an updated part number for. I'd go looking for a donor Sustain SA-6000FD or Stradic ST-6000FH or ST-8000FH as these used basically the same oscillation block and have the same pawl and bushing.
2409 - Worm Shaft Spacer
Also present in the donor reels above, but also no longer available. Pretty generic item though.
8035 - Ball Bearing
Ball bearings are generic, measure and order a replacement.
8262 - Worm Shaft Ring
I can only find this on old Stellas, that will be a problem although it looks like an extremely generic part
8192 - Drag Knob
No way

Peter, I don't know much about Shimano, but here is a source. Dominick
 https://www.ereplacementparts.com/models/spinning-reels/shimano/id1469412/stl-6000fa/

Extremely hard finding parts for any of these early 2000s Shimanos anymore. Shimano only offers parts support for five years after they discontinue the models now. Had a big bluefish trash my favorite fluke reel the other day, an old stradic 2500 FH. Cracked the bail arm right above the line roller. Looked around online, but no luck! One thing I can say about Penn reels, you can always find parts for them, even 50-year-old ones lol. Daiwa is getting bad with parts support these days too. Gotta keep an eye out on eBay or look for a donor reel. Good luck.

EA

Quote from: ExcessiveAngler on Today at 04:52:09 AMExtremely hard finding parts for any of these early 2000s Shimanos anymore. Shimano only offers parts support for five years after they discontinue the models now. Had a big bluefish trash my favorite fluke reel the other day, an old stradic 2500 FH. Cracked the bail arm right above the line roller. Looked around online, but no luck! One thing I can say about Penn reels, you can always find parts for them, even 50-year-old ones lol. Daiwa is getting bad with parts support these days too. Gotta keep an eye out on eBay or look for a donor reel. Good luck.

EA

Try and find an eyeglass repair place that laser welds glassses frames.  I got the frame welded back on the foot of an old ABU 5000 a while back, beautiful job!