Time for some Spring Cleaning...

[PapaDave]

All I have to do now is figure out how to clean my room...

[JeffB]

Originally Posted by PapaDave

All I have to do now is figure out how to clean my room...

lol! I just finished tearing apart all of my reel and cleaning up a few days ago. I try and do it at least once every couple of months when I am fishing saltwater on a regular basis.

[Cbad Mike]

Originally Posted by PapaDave

All I have to do now is figure out how to clean my room...

DITTO!!!!!! LOL

Nice new avatar PapaDave

[silentsmell]

I consider myself pretty careful and patient, never taken a reel apart though. How challenging is it to clean/grease your own reels?

[jorluivil]

Both look pretty easy to work on, definitely takes some patients. I always work on top of a large white towel, this helps me find some of the tiny parts.



I took my Cardiff apart a few months ago.......it wasn't fun

[TheBentRod]

I don't have any problems maintaining Penn and Daiwa Saltwater reels. Anything else, I am always hesitant, but extremely careful. I have an Abu Garcia Promax that I stopped trying to get back together. I think I will try again today. It has only been 7 years.

[T-Rex]

Originally Posted by jorluivil

I always work on top of a large white towel, this helps me find some of the tiny parts.

Good advice. It cuts down on trips to the tackle store for parts.

[tomahawk]

Papadave could you go over how you clean the parts once the reel is torn down and then what you lube with as it goes back together? I have cleaned Penn Jigmasters, Senators, GS (535), ABU Revo and 5600, a few diawas, and a few shimanos. That Cardiff looks like a PIA. I go back and forth on the re-assembly lubricants. The main issue i have had is I typically use a light machine oil and if I don't fish for a few months it gets googy usually on the spool shaft or pinion dis-engagement plate.
In the callcutta are you using the smaller size drag washer under the main gear? Does that give you more drag or just more adjustability?
Thanks,
Tom

[PapaDave]

Originally Posted by tomahawk

Papadave could you go over how you clean the parts once the reel is torn down and then what you lube with as it goes back together? I have cleaned Penn Jigmasters, Senators, GS (535), ABU Revo and 5600, a few diawas, and a few shimanos. That Cardiff looks like a PIA. I go back and forth on the re-assembly lubricants. The main issue i have had is I typically use a light machine oil and if I don't fish for a few months it gets googy usually on the spool shaft or pinion dis-engagement plate.
In the callcutta are you using the smaller size drag washer under the main gear? Does that give you more drag or just more adjustability?
Thanks,
Tom

Basically, once the parts are disassembled, I use WD40 to clean them. As I put them back together I will use reel grease on the gears and springs and a little 3in1 oil on the bearings. I do that because I like the feel of the reel without the grease slowing it down. I am using Carbontek drags for the calcutta 250, you need to buy the drags washers for a 700 though. You end up with an extra washer but those are the ones that fit. I guess you could try using both washers where the one would go, have not tried that yet. And yes, there is a smaller drag washer under the main gear, not sure what it add, but it is there.

The simplist reels I have to take apart and put back together are the old Sealines, 30H, 30SH, 40H and 20SLH. They are about 30 years old and still work very well. That 30H in the photo caught more albacore than many folks see in their lifetime. I used to go out every weekend during the season and usually got limits. Those were the days.