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08-02-2009, 03:28 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
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The #300 Submersible Reel
The #300 Submersible Reel. Kidding, well, sort of.
No, I'm not pushing some new $300 reel or any other submersible spinner but I've always joked around that one day I would do one (I'm not capable, really). But shouldn't a $300 reel be realistic?
But playing the theoretical for a little bit, how would you get an affordable reel, with decent reliability and repairability so that you could hold a street price around $300?
Is it even conceivable to forgo the machined billet aluminum, titanium this, and dipped that to make up this fictional reel? So lets have a little fun and build up the Virtual Dunker...
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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08-02-2009, 03:59 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Whadda ya mean. I got a submersible reel that I bought for $275 from BB. Here it is.  |
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08-02-2009, 05:06 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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yes you can forego the machined aluminum by using the virtual printer method
but it should be made of carbon nano tube technology with a dual seal built in...
same as vessels that haul oil...
problem is... carbon nano tube technology which is in it's infancy is still too expensive,,,,
but the lightness and strength would be unsurpassed.
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08-02-2009, 06:04 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
yes you can forego the machined aluminum by using the virtual printer method
but it should be made of carbon nano tube technology with a dual seal built in...
same as vessels that haul oil...
problem is... carbon nano tube technology which is in it's infancy is still too expensive,,,,
but the lightness and strength would be unsurpassed.
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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08-02-2009, 06:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
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Does the $300 MSRP have to be at a profit or a loss?  
-spence |
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08-02-2009, 06:30 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
Does the $300 MSRP have to be at a profit or a loss?
-spence |
Profit. We're not all subsidized Communists (yet   ) |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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08-03-2009, 03:07 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
Does the $300 MSRP have to be at a profit or a loss?
-spence |
WOW!!!! A Spence post. Where the hell have you been?????  |
No boat, back in the suds. 
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08-03-2009, 07:44 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnR
$300 |
i held a front fork of a bicycle made out of it
so it is being done.  |
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08-03-2009, 07:59 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe
If you had that kind of capital, you'd be a fool to spend it developing a fishing reel.
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So true, but it never hurts to dream a little 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
i held a front fork of a bicycle made out of it
so it is being done. |
Again, $300 - here is a bike using said technology, discounted half off retail is only $3300 greater than reel budget |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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08-03-2009, 09:13 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Whadda ya mean. I got a submersible reel that I bought for $275 from BB. Here it is. |
Looks like you still haven't found the homing device, at least I don't see it in the picture...  |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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08-04-2009, 10:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Whadda ya mean. I got a submersible reel that I bought for $275 from BB. Here it is. |
Sucker |
Why even try......... 
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08-04-2009, 09:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 5,238
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How about this one?
Cabela's Salt Striker
http://www.cabelas.com/p-0036333120576a.shtml
Sealed drags, sealed bearings. I don't know anyone that has owned one though. |
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08-04-2009, 09:54 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
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Originally Posted by JohnnyD
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I haven't used any of their reels, but I think I read that they'e made in China. I doubt I'd attempt swimming with one, but they could be a decent bargain reel for regular surf fishing. This one looks to have a pretty good customer rating. |
Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them tools at their disposal that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. - Marco Rubio
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08-04-2009, 10:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fishbones
I haven't used any of their reels, but I think I read that they'e made in China. I doubt I'd attempt swimming with one, but they could be a decent bargain reel for regular surf fishing. This one looks to have a pretty good customer rating.
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I'm pretty sure they are made in China. I was just throwing it out there as it has sealed drags and bearings for only $60 (well, the Fall Cabela's catalog that I got today says $40). So, some modifications on the design could yield the groundwork for a sub-$300 Submersible. |
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08-05-2009, 04:35 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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or a way to blow them out with water fittings
without having to disassemble it.  |
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