Quick HD Salt Super & Tiny Tough Little Microlite

[foakes]

A friend on site wanted his Quick 270 Super he got on eBay restored --

Then he wanted a 110 microlite also --

Each is mostly new parts after restoration.

Best,

Fred

[Shark Hunter]

David and Goliath.
That 270 is so massive. The Centrifugal force of just cranking it fast is something to see.

[David Hall]

How come the handles are on the wrong side?

[STRIPER LOU]

Very nice Fred! That Super is Super big! Did they ever make one with a half bail?
.............Lou

[oc1]

Fred, what is the line capacity of the microlite?  Thanks,
-steve

[RowdyW]

How come the handles are on the wrong side?

Cast with the right hand & crank with the left. It's a righty reel.

[foakes]

Lou --

The Quicks never had half bails to my knowledge -- what they did offer on these big supers was a PUM --

Pick Up Manual -- or basically a way to remove the bail and just have a pick up device.  Many HD Salt Spinners have these now, and have had them for 40 years or more.  Mitchell, Luxor, Penn, and many others.

Take a minute to blow up the bail and bail lever on the Super Pic -- notice how strong the bail assembly is -- welded and machined bail -- not wire, a double threaded set of screws with a stability spacer just for additional strength.

Steve --

With the cork arbor in place, the line capacity is 105 yards of 4lb mono -- on the 110 Microlite.  This is the same for the 265 Microlite, since they share the same spool.  Spools will interchange on these two Microlites -- but not on the 110N.  The spool on the older 265 Microlite is metal, on the 110 it is plastic like on the ABU Cardinal 3s.

Best,

Fred

[STRIPER LOU]

Fred,

PUM 270 is probably what I saw a while back on ebay. I should have grabbed it. If one comes along or if you have one for sale, please put my name on it.

Thanks and all the best, .. Lou

[Bryan Young]

Those are some really nice reels.  Dam Quick must still be very popular in Germany since all of the stores that I had visited still have their logos all over the stores.  I remember I purchased this golden line with the Dam Quick label.  It was soft and stretchy.  Perfect because I was fishing 2# test at the time. 

Memories, like the corner of my mind, misty covered memories,...

[foakes]

Hi Lou --

The PUM factory kit is an accessory that just installs in place of the bail -- making it a manual line pickup.

I do not have any of these.

The kit is very rare -- and someone would just need to be a little lucky, I think -- but anything is possible with right place, right time, throughout the world.

If looking for a manual bail -- it is easy enough to modify by removing the bail and replacing on the angle lever a pickup mechanism.  

Best,

Fred

[SilverRidge]

Ok here comes the newbie with another dumb question, is the 110 and 110 N considered a Microlite, is it the same size the 110 series as the Microlite reel or next step larger ??
Thanks
Paul

[STRIPER LOU]

Thanks for the info Fred. I'll keep and eye out.
Just took a look at one from and old Mitchell and it wouldn't take much to machine one up. Its on the list!

.................Lou

[foakes]

They are all considered "Microlites", Paul --

No question is weird -- sometimes the answers are though...

Am building out a few for folks this week and next -- using any new parts necessary to prove capable and cosmetically excellent.

Here are a few I just pulled out of the bone-pile for comparison --

Best Always,

Fred

[SilverRidge]

I see said the blind man .....I'm learning slowly but surely, I still cannot get over your parts inventory amazing .
Thanks Fred ...

Paul

[Midway Tommy]

Nice rebuilds, Fred.

Dam only made 2 half bails, to my knowledge, and both were very short lived. The first was the Quick Cat. #15 in 1939 - '42. WWII ceased production. That reel was the precursor to the post war Quick Standard Cat. #250. The second was the Dam Quick Junior Cat. #230 in 1951 - '52. Both are extremely rare. As far as I know, as Fred indicated, Dam only used full bails on all their other models. The MPU conversion kit for the 270 & 275 2-speed is Cat. #271. That kit is extremely hard to come by.