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Badly Needed Cleaning

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Badly Needed Cleaning

Post by BrokenolMarine » Tue Jun 04, 2019 12:27 pm

After the last two fishing trips, I set to work on badly needed maintenance on my Two Shimano Curado 200E7 Bait Casters and the Shimano Synchopate 1000FG Spinning reel. All needed some attention. :( The Baitcasters were still casting well, but they were clunking when they were reeled. NOT a good thing. ;) The spinning reel is a trigger caster, which meant you could pull a "trigger" to trap the line and open the bail, then reel a full turn to auto-close the bail and begin reeling the lure back. A pure pleasure to fish with.

First up was to clean the two bait casters as they were going to need the most attention. I sat down at the armorer's bench and donned my Optivisor and got busy. Boy, upon closer look, both were filthy, no wonder they were clunking when they were reeled for a retrieve.

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If you look at the gunk built up in the drive gear, it's amazing that the dang thing didn't lock up. :P
After some work with the cotton swabs and some rubbing alcohol, I got all the gunk out and the reels were finally clean. I put some oil in the right places and reassembled them both and they hummed like a sewing machine.

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Next I took the bail off the spinning rod and cleaned under the hinge points, added oil and reassembled. Worked like a champ.
We are back in bidness. Maybe back in bidness late this afternoon. 8-)
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Re: Badly Needed Cleaning

Post by BrokenolMarine » Tue Jun 04, 2019 3:40 pm

Meh... No afternoon fishing.. Pollen count too high for Miss T. Nose running like a faucet with a bad washer. :roll:
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