Time for some Spring Cleaning...
 

Okay, my kind of spring cleaning anyway...

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.

DITTO!!!!!! LOL

Nice new avatar PapaDave

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

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

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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.

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

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.

Thanks. I have been basically doing the same thing except I haven't tried the 3in1 and have been coating the spings with oil. I am going to try 3in1 next time.

I am rebuilding two Sealine 50H's right now and will build two 30H's when the 50's are done. When it is all said and done, I have about $90 invested in each reel. I know I am stupid crazy for doing this, but I have a love for these work horses. All the chrome is being replaced, decals and badges being replaced, both sets of bearings, and the drag washers are being upgraded to the Carbontex. The reels will be tough to beat once they are completed. You can monitor my progress on this thread. I bought four of these reels for $15 each and have about $75 in parts going back into these reels. I guess I could have bought new, but I caught so many fish on the 50H. It takes me back to my teenage days.

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Danodog

Looks like you had fun cleaning it. I got short advice about your room: Don't clean it, you'll end up making it mess again and again.. Call it creative chaos

I like to think I am conserving energy. Besides, it is a futile endeavor, it won't stay clean.