Reel Servicing
Submitted by fishfish on Wed, 2009-09-23 20:36
Evening all, a question for the tackle junkys or reel servicing guys.
When you are checking the bearings do you leave the cover off the sealed bearings when cleaning and re packing or do you just ditch them and replace ????
The covers I'm talking about are the thin shields either side of the bearing usually held on by a small circlip. You usually end up wrecking the cover trying to get them off because they are so small so in which case I leave the other side on and just repack , reinstalling them with the remaining cover facing the out side of the reel if posible depending on position ..
So far no problems but thought i'd ask, hope I explained myself..
Cheers....
Dale
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Hon-su may be able to help
Hon-su may be able to help you out there, he services reels I believe.
Cheers
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Colin Hay
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This might help fishfish
http://www.tackletour.com/articlebearings301.html
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till
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That and go look up the Alan
That and go look up the Alan Tani guides available on several websites, including wangler.
fishfish
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Thanks Till for the
Thanks Till for the suggestion I forgot all about Alans website seems he sort of favours a bit off both, open bearings and replacing the shields....
http://alantani.com/index.php?topic=13.0
I was more concerned with the grease being able to flick out and possibly make its way into areas where it shouldn't be ie drag washers not so much of keeping it sealed and clean or running dry ....
Thanks to all once again and post up if anyone has any more suggestions or tips...
Cheers.....
till
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Shouldn't really be that
Shouldn't really be that much grease than it can flick out, its a very low speed application. Besides, pretty sure that Alan is an exponent of greased drags!