..but this is how I spend a quiet and cold Saturday afternoon. I make it a reel maintenance day. I just do a few at a time until they are all done. Cleaned, oiled and some new line and they are ready for the season.
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..but this is how I spend a quiet and cold Saturday afternoon. I make it a reel maintenance day. I just do a few at a time until they are all done. Cleaned, oiled and some new line and they are ready for the season.
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I do the same thing plus do a bunch of hand ties
I respooled four today myself. With Daiwa J Braid X8
I quit doing my reels several years ago. Send em out now. Been changing hooks out today on JDM trout lures. Many of them come with barbless hooks and while there are a few areas I fish that require barbless I only need a few. I’ve bought a lot of what they term as Area lures, and they all come with barbless hooks. So got to get all that done before I hit the river for trout. Spooling up new line on many reels. Also am trimming Trout Magnets to use with my JDM jig heads. The only drawback to using those, other than cost, is they all have pretty short shanks and hard to get a TM on one straight unless you take off 1 or 2 sections of the TM head. Also ordering more Meiho boxes to be better organized. Told my wife today I need to be ready….LOL.
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Worked on pouring my fist jig heads. 1/32 & 1/64 with #6 Owner hook, and 1/64 #8 hook.Attachment 481434
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Those look really good.
Good job. Well done
I respool line on the roadside or parking lot and dip squeaky reels in the water ….:Rofl
Maintenance ain’t my thing ….just saying…..
Reels best be tough or they get hung on the garage wall in the reel graveyard :yikes
Rods best be tough too or they get given away to rod rebuild folks ….
Line best not break for no reason or it’s bird nest material in my truck bed ….
Jigs and such are in bunches all over the place…..
Rarely take time to do up any thing really nice…..
Because I will likely trash it and or thrash it next trip out is me ….:Rofl:Rofl
I have to do some maintenance myself although it ain’t my thing either
My idea of reel maintenance is to remove the spool , apply three drops of Lucas reel oil to the main shaft and turn handle a few times to get the oil down inside where the main bearings are .
Replace spool , go fishing .
Sometimes I get frogie and I’ll remove the handle and drop a few drops of Lucas oil on the handle shaft bearings .
Lol, you guys are cracking me up. Trust me, I don't do this every month. The rest of the year they will be treated like step children that stole from me. they lay in the boat, in the rain and sun and everything else. When I do give them their yearly once over though, I do get pretty thorough.
I have never binge worked on my reels. I generally just clean and lube individual reels when it seems like it has been awhile since it was last done. I also tend to leave my lines on the spool for excessively long time periods. So far it hasn't seemed to bother my fishing any.
Glad to see that mold getting some use. :highfive
Nate.
I've been having a good time with it. The whole process is a little addictive. Started with a 67 pound ingot. Just got done getting that processed into smaller fairly clean lead pieces. Still waiting for some supplies from Barlow tackle to Flux them a second time and cast into small ingots. Made a couple hundred so far, have about half those painted and baked. I'm going to need more hooks before long. LolQuote:
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I have a local retired fellow who cleans and lubes reels for less than $5 each. He is much more thorough than I am so I give him my most used reels every winter to go through. Four of my reels are no longer available (Quantum Micro MSC) and they are the first to get the spa treatment.
Unless you're pouring them to sell, what's the main purpose of going thru all the fluxing and purification rights ??Quote:
Originally Posted by zekepa
A long time ago I got a melting pot & insert jighead mold to make my own tubejig jigheads. I used tire weights & pieces of a lead pipe, skimmed off the floating slag with an old tablespoon, and poured my jigheads. They functioned just fine. Got a splitshot mold and used the same lead for them, but the "hard" lead made them very hard to close/open without the use of pliers ... :Doh:
I go thru my reels every "early spring" too. Occasionally they need cleaning twice. I fish alot and am pretty hard on my reels every now and again.;):)
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I cleaned these gently with warm/soapy water and lubed them up in the key spots. These are all pricey reels but I only clean them and lube them once a year. I usually get bored in late January or February and binge clean/lube them all.
I have not found a guy close to me since moving to Arkansas that services reels. Back in TN I used a guy out of Nashville for a number of years. He retired but loved working on Japanese reels. So my nephew and I provided him with about 25 reels between the two of us to keep him occupied somewhat. Back in 2019 I just casually asked him how many he did a year....the number was 2000. I did not think much about that until I got back home and then it hit me. The man was making a darn good living. Two thousand times 30 dollars for a reel service and he was bringing in 60 grand a year. Not sure how long he had been servicing reels but it was a number of years. He would tear them down just like in the pic from this guy I followed on YouTube. As a matter of fact the pic is of the 2015 Luvias 2004...of which I owned several but gave them all to my sons. He would clean all parts using ultrasound and lube to factory specs. Still looking for a guy local but may have to send mine off to Florida or Canada now.
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Probably comes from past experience of not doing enough prep work and having it redo things. Going down the lead pouring road, almost every site I used talked about fluxing, so I decided I would do it, took some time to process a 67 lb ingot, but it wasn't difficult.Quote:
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I kind of equate it to soldering either Electonics or plumbing, doing the prep work makes the actually soldering part fairly simple. I also don't think I'll end up making enough jigs to use the 60+ pounds of pure lead and 50+ pounds of plumbers solder, I have. Probably do some bullet casting with it also.
mine lay idle in my backseat and or garage till they fit the program ....
then they best be up to the test after all that rest or ........
KABOOM , to the reel graveyard :yikes:Rofl
Doing all of mine would be expensive. I have 38 active rods in the shop. Some are cheaper trolling reels that do t get much use anymore but I redid them last fall. If I was todo a complete disassembly like in the pic I’d have to order a new one. I’m mechanical enough but these Japanese reels are no joke. I do the clean when I notice they’re dirty and lube in bunches that I use the most. If I do t get out again soon I’m gonna go nuts.
I lube my reels at the first of the year and in July. A quick rinse off after I get home and I’m ready for the next trip. I do keep one rod/reel setup in my truck and one fly rod year round that get used and abused