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Mike P · 03-12-2001, 11:42 AM

Look, the worst thing you can do, for the fishing we do up here, is read those distance casting boards, like HO, and Gowge's and Ron Sutton's. You'll walk away thinking you need to cast 150 yards to catch fish, and that you need a reel that's tuned to an inch of a NASCAR racer, and have to blow $10 for a bottle of Rocket Fuel that stays in the bearings for all of 10 casts before you need to reload., and all the rest of the nonsense. Those guys are tournament casters, and in their fishing have to toss anywhere from 85 to 150 yards to reach the structure. You don't, and you don't need a reel that's tuned to that degree. Conventional reels work very simply---the handle turns a main drive gear, which in turn drives a pinion gear that turns the spool. The spindle of the spool goes thru the pinion gear, into either a bushing or a bearing under the metal cap on the side plate. One end of the pinion gear is slotted, and that end fits over a corresponding piece of metal on the spool spindle, that's how it turns. Most moder reel have a one way roller bearing on top of the drag washer stack that prevents the handle turning backwards--that's your anti-reverse. Older reels have a spring loaded dog that engages a ratchet attached to the main shaft that serves the same purpose, but this insn't a "continuous" style of anti reverse like the one-way roller bearing. In the main gear, there's a stack of friction washers that allow the spool to slip and turn backwards under pressure--that's your drag. In a level wind reel, there are plastic gears attached to the left hand side of the spool, they engage corresponding gears under the left sideplate. Those gears, in turn, drive a pinion gear attached to the end of a worm gear inside the level wind bar on the reel. this causes the worm gear to turn. In the screw cap underneath the level wind guide--the thing that travels back and forth that does the job you thumb used to have to do--there's a small pawl which rides in the grooves of the worm gear.

Servicing the CS Mag is a job best left to the shop---getting the magnet to sit correctly under the left plate is tricky. For this reason, the guys steering you to the Tourney 6500 are giving you good advice. If you want to spend a little more than that, I highly recommend the BG6500CL. It has beefed up plates and a sturdier frame. The Mag is more sensitive to sand issues.

03-12-2001, 11:42 AM	#8
Mike P Jiggin' Leper Lawyer iTrader: (0) Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E Posts: 8,158	Look, the worst thing you can do, for the fishing we do up here, is read those distance casting boards, like HO, and Gowge's and Ron Sutton's. You'll walk away thinking you need to cast 150 yards to catch fish, and that you need a reel that's tuned to an inch of a NASCAR racer, and have to blow $10 for a bottle of Rocket Fuel that stays in the bearings for all of 10 casts before you need to reload., and all the rest of the nonsense. Those guys are tournament casters, and in their fishing have to toss anywhere from 85 to 150 yards to reach the structure. You don't, and you don't need a reel that's tuned to that degree. Conventional reels work very simply---the handle turns a main drive gear, which in turn drives a pinion gear that turns the spool. The spindle of the spool goes thru the pinion gear, into either a bushing or a bearing under the metal cap on the side plate. One end of the pinion gear is slotted, and that end fits over a corresponding piece of metal on the spool spindle, that's how it turns. Most moder reel have a one way roller bearing on top of the drag washer stack that prevents the handle turning backwards--that's your anti-reverse. Older reels have a spring loaded dog that engages a ratchet attached to the main shaft that serves the same purpose, but this insn't a "continuous" style of anti reverse like the one-way roller bearing. In the main gear, there's a stack of friction washers that allow the spool to slip and turn backwards under pressure--that's your drag. In a level wind reel, there are plastic gears attached to the left hand side of the spool, they engage corresponding gears under the left sideplate. Those gears, in turn, drive a pinion gear attached to the end of a worm gear inside the level wind bar on the reel. this causes the worm gear to turn. In the screw cap underneath the level wind guide--the thing that travels back and forth that does the job you thumb used to have to do--there's a small pawl which rides in the grooves of the worm gear. Servicing the CS Mag is a job best left to the shop---getting the magnet to sit correctly under the left plate is tricky. For this reason, the guys steering you to the Tourney 6500 are giving you good advice. If you want to spend a little more than that, I highly recommend the BG6500CL. It has beefed up plates and a sturdier frame. The Mag is more sensitive to sand issues.