Conference deming::bass_fishing

    
    
    Hi Brian..
    
    
    		I use a de-greaser that I bought in a Bicycle Shop.
    	It smells of citrus and virtually blows the grease off the 
    	bearings and gears..
    
    
    
    	I have an old "TV Dinner" type plate that has 3 compartments
    
    	One with pure de-greaser
    	one with clear warm water
    	and one with a 70 30 water de-greaser mix..
    
    
    
    	I soak all gears in the full strength
    
    	I soak the bearings in the 70/30 solution
    
    	After a time ( soaking) I rinse and "towel" dry all components
    		completely and begin assembling..
    
    	lite machine oil for bearings 
    
    	Penn reel lube for gears...
    
    	I also use a touch of machine oil for any metal to metal contacts
    	except the leather of fabric of the drag.. ( some folks use a touch
    	of something on the pads, I don't)
    
    	I find that this type of cleaning works well , but I usually need
    	to re-oil and re-grease once or twice during the year.
    
    
    	This maintenance keeps the ball bearings free of grit and extends
    	the life of the reels by a bunch.. ( Works for me )
    
    	
    	I use this process on all my reels with the exception , that
    		I find "WHITE LITHIUM GREASE" is better for the gears
    		in the big Salt Water units.. 
    
    
    	Hope this was helpfull...
    
    
    
    PS: Make sure you have the diagrams before you start...
    
    

Like Sully, I use the biodegradeable degreaser that smells like oranges.  It's water soluable,
doesn't damage the plastic or nylon parts and won't harm the septic system.

re: diagrams

I agree...always have these handy.   I also find that magnified photocopies of the diagrams work 
better and are easier to see.

Put old light-colored sheets on the work counter and the floor to catch any small parts and 
prevent them from bouncing away.  This was mentioned before ... search for some reference 
about "between the sheets" and that trouble-maker from Florida.  ;-)

Good luck!

-joe-

(whose reels are cleaned, loaded with new line, rigged and ready for Santee!!)

 Use them till they die, toss'em and get new ones!
 Reels are cheap!

 Remember, I buy spinning reels too(I'm sure that's all Ota
 knows how to use anyway...) when they go on sale for $30. Then, I 
 buy like 4 of them. I usually get 3 years out them without
 doing a thing. That's $10 a year ->Less than sending them to Bucko's
 for a yearly spiffing.

 Glad I could help

 -Sully

    Hey Sully
    
    With the number of rods and reels in your boat its no wonder you need
    that 200 horse turbo charger.
    
    Oats
    

    re: 3
    
    	Penny saved is a penny earned..
    

 Its up to us working folks here @Digital to buy
 these products and keep others employed. Just think
 of the unemployment rate if everyone spiffed their
 reels every year and got 5-10 years out of them. Oh
 the humainty, the bread lines, the rations...

 - Sully

    Hey Joe, I think your getting senile !!!!!!  NSULLIVAN and SULLIVAN are
    not the same person.  Com on, think about what you wrote!!!  Sully, the 
    rabid woodchuck taking the time to disassemble a reel.  You should know
    by now all he does with his free time is, GOLF, FISHING, THINKING ABOUT
    FISHING, and EATING.....  And looking at him, he's quite good at them
    all 8^) !!!!  But reel repairs "Sully don't play that" !!!!!
    
    Neil Sullivan (a bonifide member in good standing of the Mid Week Hawg
    Haulers) does and excellent job rebuilding reels, but doesn't catch
    fish like Sully !!!!!!
    
    						Gary
    
    

No question that I'm getting senile.  Hell... I woke up this morning, rolled 
over in bed and said... "Hi, what's your name?"

My wife didn't laugh.

What is MY name??

-george-

    
    	re: 7
    
    
    		I will catch them like sully, once the gears in my reel
    	begin to rust from not caring for them..  It must be something like
    	a turkey call to the bass..
    

    Well last weekend when it was nice and sunny, I decided to clean my
    reels on my deck.  I set up the card table, put a white towel on top,
    set up my dishes of orange degreaser, warm water, a can of WD 40 and
    white lithium grease.  I had a cup of coffee a good cigar and every
    schematic the reels came with.  I carefully took them apart, cleaned
    and degreased then regreased them.  On the very last one, I took the
    bail off to clean the housing and bearing, when suddenly the little
    1/4" sliding block that releases the locking mechanism on the bail arm,
    flipped out of the bail bounced off my towell, off my table, onto the
    deck, up and into the crack and down below......  I dropped to my hands
    and knees and put my eyeball to the crack and to my horror saw that the
    entire ground below my deck was covered with cracked sunflower seed
    shells from my birdfeeders.  I went under my deck crawled to where my
    table was looked up to see if I was aligned, looked directly below me
    and ...voila the block lay right there.  Talk about lucky.
    
    From now one, I definitley will put a sheet below me.
    
    brian
         

    
    	Only you , would repair a reel in the great outdoors,
    
    	You bet you were lucky..... Geeesh.
    

    Luck, what luck, what I am is the protege of the great Legend of the
    Lakes and as his holeness would say, lucks not got nuthin to do with
    being good.......
    
    Oats
    

	If you are a TRUE protoge of the Legend, can I then assume you
	cleaned and polished the underside of the deck??  ;-)

    No that would be silly.  After I serviced my reels, I then cleaned and
    polished my card table, washed and starched the towel I used. Then
    degreased the outside of my WD 40 spray can.  I put all the supplies
    inside my Garage which was then swept and washed.
    
    Oats
    
    Clean the underside of the deck! as the Legend would say  "You better
    watch your backside because theres now a big bullseye marking it."