Alphamar (old series) dog spring upgrade

[Tile]

After getting hold of an Abu Ambassadeur Alphamar 50 old series I was curious to see its insides and spotted the potential antireverse problem right away. After a bit of crafting 2 antireverse additional dog springs resulted, obviously from a ball pen spring  . The Alphamar old series are almost identical to the first generation Penn Fathoms and may be possible to have interchangeble parts.

[mhc]

Nice work with the springs Tile, and good to see you're still upgrading your reels.

Mike

[Tile]

When I opened this reel the antireverse dogs were no engaging properly at all due to them getting misaligned. I had to put 2 washers on their posts to get them aligned and not bind at all. Now they are in line and engage correctly

[Tile]

Also the Alphamar now sports an all metal level wind line guide. I took delivery of a line guide for Penn Rival/Warfare 30 along with the cap, pawls and shims. In order to make it work I used a stainless steel pipe and a piece of an arrow shaft to reduce the diameter to 8 mm as the inner diameter of the line guide block is 9 mm and also I drilled the insert with a 4 mm drill bit so that the pawl can be installed.