Shimano Baitrunner 4000D

[foakes]

On specialized parts that get manufactured by the thousands for fishing reels -- sometimes a step gets missed.

These parts are sometimes made by the manufacturer -- and oftentimes they are outsourced to specification by suppliers who ship them in bags and boxes of 1000-5000 at a time.

Been building basically brand new DAM Quick spinning reels over he last couple of weeks, for members -- and in pulling small specialized parts out of bins from 60 years ago -- I have found (2) parts that were not functional.

One was a rare trip lever for a Microlite 265 that is missing a tiny hole for the spring.  The other is a German Silver shoulder trip return screw for a 330 -- and the screw slot was not cut on top.  I tossed the blank cut screw -- but it is easy enough to drill a hole in the trip lever.

Not a big deal if you have hundreds of the same extra parts -- a big deal if it is the only one you have like most fishermen.

Shimano will take care of it immediately -- no worries.

In the "old days", here in the US -- if you took that reel to a Shimano Saturday morning tackle care seminar/workshop -- the Shimano Rep would just hand you a new reel.

Best,

Fred

[Zimbass]

Detective nelz      No, it's a new reel !!

I hear you Fred. Makes sense that when thousands are produced, that a bad one slips thru quality control.

In the old days we had electricity and water in my country !!

Thanks to you all for your input.

Best.

Terry.