I have received this reel as a gift from a friend of the family. This was a grandfather's reel that is just sitting in a box.
I am looking a for a little bit about the maker, and how to remove the spool
The face of the reel has a knurled drag adjuster on the front which seems very much "a friction fit", in the middle is a slotted screw which I assume releases the spool, but there is less than an 1/8 of a turn of movement on the screw, and the spool still feels like it is retained by the knurled drag adjuster.
The rear of the spool has a clicker on off switch and two rivets.
Anyone have some advise on how to crack this reel open, and maybe the manufacturer?
Information on a mystery reel
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Re: Information on a mystery reel
#4It did seem odd that it was a hex nut rather than round which to me implied that it was the key. Nice reel BTW
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Re: Information on a mystery reel
#6That looks exactly how I think it should come apart, I'll pull it apart again from the Hex nut to see why i cannot separate the front drag nut from the spoolbugslinger wrote: ↑01/25/23 16:25The knurled drag nut on the spool releases the spool. I have this reel, it’s a Japanese knock off of an Ocean City reel.
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Re: Information on a mystery reel
#7Are you missing the brass colored cupped washer that goes under the knurled drag nut?
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Re: Information on a mystery reel
#9I don't know if it's an optical illusion of the photo or not, but the drag nut looks like it might be cross-threaded on. I wonder if the threads were stripped, and someone used something like lock-tite to secure it on.
Re: Information on a mystery reel
#10That theory is entirely reasonable, I'll poke around after workheadwaters wrote: ↑01/26/23 09:53I don't know if it's an optical illusion of the photo or not, but the drag nut looks like it might be cross-threaded on. I wonder if the threads were stripped, and someone used something like lock-tite to secure it on.