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Wanted to share these with the TR folks who are more
familiar with me and the hateful Crypt Car.

A mechanic, I ain't, everyone knows that.

But I can refurbish just about anything I can take
apart. Yup I am good with Smith gauges.

My TR was built in 1968.
In 1968 my grandfather gave me one of his old Penn
reels and a Mitchell saltwater rod. All these years
I have kept them with me. Only thing of his I have.

Working on the Crypt Car has given me the courage to
tackle a major refurbish of my grandfather's gift to me.

Felt good to work on something older than Crypty and
have it fully functional when I was completed with it.
Too many failures with Crypty. I needed something positive
to lift my spirits.

Goona catch me a tarpon, I am!

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WOW! It looks like "Dale's MicroPolishing South".

Sometimes it's good to distract yourself and then the other issues don't seem quite so insurmountable when you get back to them.

By the way, I saw that you had some PM's and offers to come down and help you with your clutch assembly project. Who's the lucky guy(s) headed south to warmer climates to visit the red devil in person?
 
Tinster
I'm posting my ABU reel to you for similar treatment. Who knows, ya could make some money out of this, as we know architecture doesn't pay!!
Regards
Craig
 
Dale, that is a fine old reel. Your grandfather and I are probably about the same age. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
KC_ Really?? "Your grandfather and I are probably about
the same age"

I'd love to meet and chat with you about the OLD times.
My grandfather was born in 1894!

You must be one old geezer at 113 years. LOL

best regards,

d
 
Dale -

The picture of that Penn reel brought back some fond memories. I bought a brand new Penn "9" back in '62 or '63, while living in Corpus Christi. A real treasure at the time, as I had saved up money from mowing lawns to buy it and the rod. Looked a lot like the one you have.

"Thanks for the memories..."

Mickey
 
So before you head out to get that tarpon ... how 'bout telling us what you did to restore that reel?

Looks great!
Tom
 
Tom,

Same procedures I used to refurbish the TRs
Smith gauges and exterior light assemblies.
Moss has blow-ups of TR assemblies- Penn has
blow-ups of some of their reels.

First I took a lot of before photos so I would
here all the parts went on the exterior.

Then I studied what tasks all the exterior levers,
knobs, buttons, etc. etc seem to accomplish.

I removed all the exterior perimiter screws and pulled
free the chrome ring compresion circles on either side.

Took photos and began to build two distinct parts piles-
left and right.

Continued removing screws and pulling things apart
until complete disassemble. In progress, one tiny
spring of maybe 1/4" length 1/16" diamter popped out
into the air. Remember the same thing happened to my
brand new alterntor? So I wasn't bothered and no freak
out this time.

Cleaned all the clutch, drive and drag parts of years
of sticky oil residue and lightly used white grease to re-lube. Will get a can of Penn Special Reel oil before I hit the water.

Scraped the crud build-up off the remaining parts and scrubbed them with industrial soapy cleaner.

Then the task of #600 wet sand; finished out with 00 steel
wool. The circular line guides I put into my electric drill
and spun them in the steel wool. Very quick cleaning job that concept.

The two plastic end pieces I cleaned, scrubbed and let dry.
Applied black paste shoe polish and buffed. Did this three times.

Remember the spring that popped out? Went onto the
internet to find where it went. Lordy!! a two hour
install on that tiny devil. You need 3 hands and 16
fingers to get everything aligned and held together.

Put all the parts together in reverse order and with
none left over. A miracle in that.

I use a combo dry cleaner and wax on Crypty. I used
the same product on the reel. Then a test drive and everything functioned very smoothly. Penn made high
quality reels back in the day--still do.

I spent maybe 12 hours of very enjoyable time on this project. And the reel is fully functional.

But then, I knew the PO personally and watched him perform
routine maintenance on his fishing gear.

I use the same procedures on Crypty but Pedro the PO was
a SOB liar who performed no maintenance at all.

d

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