Stainless Steel Spacer for Jigmaster 500/501

Started by BryanC, January 22, 2016, 04:21:49 PM

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BryanC

I decided to try something a little different for my gear sleeve spacers.  I bought a 1 foot length of ½" diameter x 0.049" wall tubing in 316SS material.  The inside diameter was a little too small to slide over the gear sleeve, so I use a 3/8" sanding tip on my dremel and lightly sanded the ID at the end of the tube while rotating it.  I did this until it would slide over the gear sleeve with little effort, but still a very close fit.

Then I cut off the end of the tube that I had just sanded the ID.  I cut it at about 12.5 mm, and sanded it down to the length I wanted by hand (11.4 mm for this reel).

At 12.7 mm outside dia vs 11.9 mm of the original Penn spacer, it is a much tighter fit to the sideplate opening.  I think it is good enough for my purposes.  I like the look of the SS.  I have one installed in my Cortez-plate 501, and still need to make on for the 500.

Here are pics:


Original Penn gear sleeve is 11.9 mm outside diameter.  I don't know why, but photobucket won't let me rotate this pic to the correct orientation.


New 316ss sleeve is 12.7 mm outside diameter


I sanded the length of this one down to 11.4 mm


Nice fit in sideplate.  There is a shadow on the upper-right side of the photo, not a large gap.  The sleeve is centered in the opening.

BMITCH

Nice work...where did you find the SS tubing??

Bob
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BMITCH

luck is the residue of design.