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Bawana · 12-31-2003, 11:35 AM

I will have to look --Yup the black ones come both ways with and without the flat spot on end.I probably have 25/30 of these as extras in various colors and with full and some trimmed down casting vanes on the inside.Only problem is these tend to crack if mono wound to tight on them.I liked the way these casted over the aluminum and the stainless was way heavy tending to over run or backlash when casting.I even have some old easy-cast setups that bolted on to stop backlash and claimed you didnt have to thumb spool at all but I never tried.I even have the last squidder that was old out of service merchandise in stoughton when they shut down their fishing department.Box is marked as for display reel.Had the aluminum spool.I also have picked up a couple of the spools Newell used to make for these when he was improving Penn reels.I have one of the 200*S that has all his improvments.The squidder is a good real and If I could only get a newell drive set-up to get a better gear ratio.The 3:1 is so slow for the canal.Penn was supposed to make a 4:1 improvment about 10 years ago but i never saw it materialize.I had switched to the 980 to get the 4:1 back in the early 80*s and still use one for chunking.

12-31-2003, 11:35 AM	#14
Bawana Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Norwell--E.Wareham Posts: 217	I will have to look --Yup the black ones come both ways with and without the flat spot on end.I probably have 25/30 of these as extras in various colors and with full and some trimmed down casting vanes on the inside.Only problem is these tend to crack if mono wound to tight on them.I liked the way these casted over the aluminum and the stainless was way heavy tending to over run or backlash when casting.I even have some old easy-cast setups that bolted on to stop backlash and claimed you didnt have to thumb spool at all but I never tried.I even have the last squidder that was old out of service merchandise in stoughton when they shut down their fishing department.Box is marked as for display reel.Had the aluminum spool.I also have picked up a couple of the spools Newell used to make for these when he was improving Penn reels.I have one of the 200S that has all his improvments.The squidder is a good real and If I could only get a newell drive set-up to get a better gear ratio.The 3:1 is so slow for the canal.Penn was supposed to make a 4:1 improvment about 10 years ago but i never saw it materialize.I had switched to the 980 to get the 4:1 back in the early 80s and still use one for chunking.