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Those 304s are cool. What is the bottom one? Shimano?
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DrX - Yes 2000 Sonora
Found another pix. The old 304 was apart on my desk for weeks and I finally got around to cleaning it. Here's a pix all tore apart. Very few moving parts back then.
Acquired another 304 and got motivated to clean both today
I believe the 304 on the right is from the early 60's. Cleaner machining and Garcia got into the game
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Good stuff! You ever have any parts left over?
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Older reels were simple. New ones can be a PITA. Now many use screws with hex or star heads. They discourage fixing your own in order to increase sales.
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Ernie wrote:
You ever have any parts left over?
Yes. When I do, it's back to the drawing board to figure out where the part belongs.
If you look at the Sonora reel pix, those shims on the far right of the pix are hand made - the person did a pretty good job of making them
New ones can be a PITA
Took me 4 hours to figure out where all the spare parts went on a Stradic. Now I can put them together in my sleep.
Now many use screws with hex or star heads.
Got them. When Sears sold Craftsman they unloaded all of their stock for cheap.
Tearing apart reels have gave me some interesting surprises. Line in reels, ferrous metal corroding from salt, grease so old its harder than a rock, reel repair guys taking short cuts, parts in the wrong place and even one had a dead family of something inside
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I made the mistake of opening my anti-reverse clutch in my old stradic. Watched some good vids on how to re-assemble and then found out that some of the little springs inside were shot. Put it together a few times until I figured it out. The springs are not available anywhere, but I was able to buy the whole clutch assembly from Thailand. Still waiting on it.
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No extra parts
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drxfish wrote:
I was able to buy the whole clutch assembly from Thailand. Still waiting on it.
I would have bought an old Shimano at one of those fishing shows or on the internet and swapped parts. It's pretty easy to find a bound up Stradic
edit - Shimano interchanges allot of parts - betcha that Senora's anti reverse would work ....
Last edited by hookup (Feb-08-22 1:03PM)
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I looked around a little and decided to go with the one I bought.
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My anti-reverse clutch assembly for the Stradic came today and the reel works great. For some reason, two problems are solved. The anti-reverse and I was having issues with the bail flipping when casting, and that is not happening now. Very happy as it was the first "expensive" reel I ever bought.
Last edited by drxfish (Feb-22-22 4:09PM)
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Good job.
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