Bawana--it is a trick i read somewhere about lapping in the gears of a bait-casting reel. The procedure takes care of any minute spurs and uneven surfaces on the machined parts of the reel.
Its a Boyd Pfeiffer trick. Dated perhaps but still worth a thought.
To polish the reel you need to take it apart and pack the side plates and the level-wind mechanism with a fifty-fifty mixture of grease and toothpaste. Pfeiffer recommends Pearl Drops toothpaste--he feels it is the most abrasive toothpaste around. The grease serves to suspend the toothpaste.
It takes from eight to twenty hours to polish the gears. He says you can do it in front of the tube or, as he does, rigs a motor that turns at 100 rpm's.
Periodically your going to have to repack the worm gears and the pawl. Remove toothpaste with warm soapy water and use a degreaser to remove the old grease.
He says when your done you'll have the casting reel of your dreams.
I'm off to CVS to find me some Pearl Drops toothpaste--anyone ever heard of it?
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